Stefan Simonsson

Stefan Simonsson AKA " The Legend" (born 5 January 1960, in Hyltebruk), is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing singles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 49 in 1983 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 88 in 1984. He´s the brother of Hans Simonsson After his career, he coached two top 10 players on the ATP ranking, Magnus Gustavsson and Magnus Larsson.

For the last 5 years Stefan Simonsson has been coaching junior players in Norway, and has apparently never been happier. He is working at Oslo Tennis Club with the three future tennis stars of Norway, Oscar Hawken, Peter August Anker and Jacob Eskeland. The three young boys aged 15, 15 and 16 are very hardworking and respectful boys who has an unusual dynamic friendship with Simonsson. Simonsson even said "they´re like my sons" at an interview earlier in 2014.

Doubles titles (2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1983	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Magnus Tideman	Francisco Yunis Juan Carlos Yunis	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	1983	Ferrara, Italy	Carpet	Stanislav Birner	Bernard Mitton Butch Walts	6–7, 6–0, 3–6
Winner	2.	1985	Hilversum, Netherlands	Clay	Hans Simonsson	Carl Limberger Mark Woodforde	6–3, 6–4

Singles runner-ups (1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1982	Florence, Italy	Clay	Vitas Gerulaitis	6–4, 3–6, 1–6

External links

• Simonsson, Stefan at the Association of Tennis Professionals