Jonas Svensson (tennis player)

Jonas Svensson (tennis player)

Nation:

Sweden

Birthday:

October 21, 1966

Size:

188 cm

Weight:

76 kg

1st professional season:

1985

Resignation:

1995

Playing hand:

Right

Trainer:

Tim Klein

Prize money:

$ 2,439,702

singles

Career record:

258: 204

Career title:

5

Highest ranking:

10 (March 25 1991)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	VF (1989)
French Open	HF (1988, 1990)
Wimbledon	3R (1987-1990)
US Open	AF (1987)

Double

Career record:

59: 101

Career title:

1

Highest ranking:

49 (April 6 1987)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	VF (1988)
French Open	2R (1987)
Wimbledon	1R (1986–1988)
US Open	2R (1991)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	-
French Open	2R (1987)
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jonas Svensson (born October 21, 1966 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish tennis player .

Career

Svensson reached the semi-finals in the junior competition of the Wimbledon Championships in 1983 and turned professional two years later. In his career he won five singles and one double title on the ATP World Tour and in 1991 reached 10th place, his highest ranking in the ATP world rankings .

In 1986 he won his first individual title at the Cologne Grand Prix in Cologne. In the following two years he won the BA Tennis Trophy in Vienna and the Lorraine Open in Metz. In 1990 he won the Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse in Toulouse, his last tournament victory he won at the Copenhagen Open , where he defeated his compatriot Anders Järryd in the final . Svensson reached the semi-finals of the French Open twice as an unset player . In 1988 he was defeated by Henri Leconte after defeating Ivan Lendl . Two years later he defeated Leconte in the quarterfinals and then lost to Andre Agassi .

In doubles he was successful in 1987 at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis at the side of Anders Järryd, two years earlier he was together with Jaroslav Navrátil in the finals of the indoor tournament in Nancy .

Svensson played nine individual games for the Swedish Davis Cup team between 1989 and 1991 , his record shows seven wins and two defeats. The Swedish team at the time included Stefan Edberg , Mats Wilander , Jan Gunnarsson and Anders Järryd. With his victories over Goran Ivanišević and Goran Prpić in the semifinals against Yugoslavia , he made a significant contribution to the Davis Cup final in 1989, which was then lost to Germany . In the final, however, Svensson was not used.

Until the mid-1980s he was listed in the tennis statistics under Jonas B. Svensson, as his compatriot Jonas A. Svensson also played on the tour.

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 7, 1986	Germany Cologne	Hard court (i)	Sweden Stefan Eriksson	6: 7, 6: 2, 6: 2
2.	October 26, 1987	Austria Vienna	Hard court (i)	Israel Amos Mansdorf	1: 6, 1: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3, 7: 5
3.	February 29, 1988	France Metz	Carpet (i)	Netherlands Michiel Schapers	6: 2, 6: 4
4th	October 8, 1990	France Toulouse	Hard court (i)	France Fabrice Santoro	7: 6, 6: 2
5.	March 11, 1991	Denmark Copenhagen	Carpet (i)	Sweden Järryd is different	6: 7, 6: 2, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 14, 1987	United States Memphis	Hard court (i)	Sweden Järryd is different	Spain Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez Vicario Spain	6: 4, 6: 2

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personal data
SURNAME	Svensson, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gothenburg , Sweden