Lennart Bergelin

Lennart Bergelin , born on June 10th, 1925 with Alingsas, is a tennis player Swedish.

Winner of Frank Parker, head of series n°1 of the tournament of Wimbledon amateur in 1948, in eighth of finale, the greatest performance of Bergelin is to have gained his two simple finally interzones of the Coupe Davis 1950, with depend on Frank Sedgman, the n°2 amateur of the moment, and John Bromwich. Ken Rosewall (with the tournament of Bastad 1954 on beaten ground) figure also on its list of the victims. In the tournaments of the Large Slam it reached twice the quarterfinals of Wimbledon amateur in 1946 and 1948. The two worse against-performances of its career were defeats against Jean Borotra, old then 46 years 1/2, in semi-final of international of France amateurs on short covers (probably on wood) in Lyon in March 1947 and against the young person Ken Rosewall in 1951 (in eighth of finale to the International amateurs of the State of Victoria, at the stage of Kooyong with Melbourne) then old of… 17 years. A few decades later it became illustrates it trainer of its famous compatriot, Bjorn Borg.

Prize list

International of France: Quarterfinal in 1948,1951: eighth of finale in 1949
Masters of Hamburg: winner in 1951

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