Adidas-GTX

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Adidas GTX Lendl (1986)

Condition
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10: New
9: Mint
8: Excellent
7: Good
6: Fair
5: Average
4: Below Average
3: Poor
| Rarity
8
10: Impossibly rare
9: Extremely rare
8: Hard to find
7: Fairly rare
6: Uncommon
5: Common
<4: Big Seller
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About Adidas

Lendl played with the Kneissl White Star thru 1980. In 1981, he started to play with an early version of the Adidas GTX Pro model, which he would used thru 1985. He played his French final in 1981 against Borg with the this GTX Model. Adidas worked with composites in 1980 onwards in their factory in France for their new start athlete Ivan Lendl. It paid off! They copied their open throat series and made the graphite GTX series in several models .

Early batches of GTXs were painted Kneissls, but that ended and the Adidas GTX manufacturing moved to France. In 1986, Ivan started to play the Adidas GTX Pro-T, until 1990. In 1990, he switched to Mizuno, and used the Mizuno Ivan Lendl model. The Mizuno was actually different racket mold from his Kneissl & Adidas frames, and added 10-15% headsize increase over his former racquet models. This change was suppose to help Ivan win Wimbledon. The pro version of this racket was used by Ivan Lendl in his win over John McEnroe at the 1984 French Open. Lendl came from two sets down to win the championship in five. With this win Lendl took the first of his eight major singles wins.

According to newspaper adverts the GTX Pro and GTX Mid were £80 in 1989

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Specifications

MeasurementsValuePerformanceScore
Weight360gPower19/100
Length27inchControl41/100
Balance5pt head heavySpin40/100
GripPerforated leatherHandling78/100
Strings18 x 20 | syntheticComfort89/100
FlexibilityRA 43Consistency59/100

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Adidas History

They started in the washroom and gradually conquered the world. Every great story has a beginning. This one started in a small town in Bavaria, Germany. Adi Dassler started in his mother’s washroom, registered “Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik” in 1924 and began to provide athletes with the best possible sports equipment. Adidas was founded in 1949 by Adolf (Adi) Dassler at the age of 49 again under the name “Adi Dassler adidas Sportschuhfabrik”, after falling out with his brother Rudolf. He subsequently founded his own competing company, which we know today under the name Puma. Despite the fact that the brothers never reconciled, their competitive struggle was responsible for the fact that both brands rocketed into the public consciousness, which was further supported by the fact that the sports products from both of their workshops reached top quality. The company starts with 47 employees in the small town of Herzogenaurach. In the same year, he registered the shoe, which included the registration of the soon-to-be-famous adidas 3-Stripes. Later, they also started producing the famous Franz Beckenbauer warm-up sets.