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Jay Berger (born November 26 1966, in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

Berger turned professional in 1985. He won his first top-level singles title in 1986 at Buenos Aires. In 1988, he captured both the singles and doubles titles at Sao Paulo.

In 1989, Berger reached the quarter-finals at both the French Open and the US Open. He also won the third tour singles title of his career that year at Charleston, South Carolina.

Berger was runner-up at the Canadian Open (Tennis Masters Series event) in 1990. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 7 in April that year.

During his career, Berger won three top-level singles titles and one tour doubles title. He retired from the professional tour in 1991.

Trivia

Berger was famous for using the aluminum Prince Pro oversize racquet, despite the fact that virtually all professionals were using graphite (or graphite composite) racquets. He continued to play with the Prince Pro, despite not having any endorsements from Prince.

Berger's racquets were strung at very high tensions, using inexpensive Prince Synthetic Gut string. It was not unusual to see his racquets getting warped out of shape with any moderate impact, since the tensions were at least 90 lb on many occasions (normal tension for that racquet was from 65-80 lb).

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