Condition

6

10: New
9: Mint
8: Excellent
7: Good
6: Fair
5: Average
4: Below Average
3: Poor

| Rarity

9

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 This Racket

In 1993 Fischer was selling 200,000 per year but this slowly declined to 80,000 in 2008. However its big seller was the Superform, teardrop shape and relatively small head size. But they had a number of other models, including this PowerGlass in iconic Black & Yellow.

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About Fisher

Fischer is an Austrian brand originating from Skiiing, similar to HEAD. Josef Fischer was a keen tennis player since 1972; and started production of the “Matchmaker” in 1974 which was a composite plastic/aluminium design. Fischer changed the standard oval racket shape for a teardrop shape called “Superform”. The “Matchmaker” was success. Within two years the factory in Ried ships 100,000 rackets. Fischer relocated racket production to Hollabrunn, not far from Vienna. Production stays there until 1990, when the increasing pressure to cut costs forces Fischer to move production to the Far East. Fischer was used at Wimbledon in 1978, in the hands of South African doubles Frew McMillan and Bob Hewitt. In subsequent years tennis stars such as Stan Smith, Anders Järryd, Horst Skoff and Carl Uwe Steeb put their trust in the racket and then Michael Stich won the Wimbledon Men’s Singles with the “Vacuum Pro” in 1991 (which had a traditional shape). In 1998 Fischer signed the no. 1 world ranking player, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, then Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, who becomes a popular hero in his own country when he reaches the finals of the Australian Open in 2006. In 1993 racket sales reach 200,000 per year but slowly declined to 80,000 in 2008. In July 2009 Fischer sold the moulds and the patents plus all the specialised know-how to the German company Pacific. The rackets remain iconic in both design and shape however.

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