Magnus Gustafsson

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Magnus Gustafsson Tennis player
Nation: SwedenSweden Sweden
Birthday: 3rd January 1967
Size: 185 cm
1st professional season: 1986
Resignation: 2001
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 4,545,489
singles
Career record: 415: 260
Career title: 14th
Highest ranking: 10 (July 29 1991)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (1994)
French Open AF (1988, 1990)
Wimbledon AF (1996)
US Open 2R (1996, 1997)
Double
Career record: 58:69
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 77 (November 6 1989)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (1988)
French Open 1R (1988, 1989)
Wimbledon 1R (1988, 1989)
US Open 1R (1989)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Magnus Gustafsson (born January 3, 1967 in Lund ) is a former Swedish tennis player .

Career

Gustafsson was a professional tennis player from 1985 to 2001. He won 14 singles titles in his career, including four at the Swedish Open in Båstad .

He reached his highest world ranking position in 1991 with 10th place. In 1994 he was in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open , this was his best performance in a Grand Slam tournament . In 1998 he won the Davis Cup with the Swedish team . Between 1991 and 1999 he was used in nine Davis Cup matches. He played 14 individual games in which he was able to celebrate ten wins.

Gustafsson was known for his consistency. Between November 9, 1987 and April 22, 2002 he was only eight months (between February and October 1995) not in the top 100 of the ATP world rankings .

He also played for several clubs in the German tennis Bundesliga , such as Bamberg and Essen.

Tournament victories

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP Championship Series (2)
ATP World Series
ATP International Series (13)
Title after covering
Hard Court (3)
Sand (9)
Lawn (0)
Carpet (3)

singles

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. May 5, 1991 GermanyGermany Munich sand ArgentinaArgentina Guillermo Pérez Roldán 3: 6, 6: 3, 4: 3 Exercise.
2. July 14, 1991 SwedenSweden Båstad (1) sand ArgentinaArgentina Alberto Mancini 6: 1, 6: 2
3. July 28, 1991 NetherlandsNetherlands Hilversum (1) sand SpainSpain Jordi Arrese 5: 7, 7: 6 2 , 2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 0
4th July 12, 1992 SwedenSwedenBåstad (2) sand SpainSpain Tomás Carbonell 5: 7, 7: 5, 6: 4
5. July 25, 1993 GermanyGermany Stuttgart sand GermanyGermany Michael Stich 6: 3, 6: 4, 3: 6, 4: 6, 6: 4
6th January 16, 1994 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland Hard court United StatesUnited States Patrick McEnroe 6: 4, 6: 0
7th February 6, 1994 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai Hard court SpainSpain Sergi Bruguera 6: 4, 6: 2
8th. March 24, 1996 RussiaRussia St. Petersburg Carpet (i) RussiaRussia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6: 2, 7: 6 4
9. July 14, 1996 SwedenSwedenBåstad (3) sand UkraineUkraine Andrij Medvedev 6: 1, 6: 3
10. October 12, 1997 SingaporeSingapore Singapore Carpet (i) GermanyGermany Nicolas Kiefer 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
11. March 15, 1998 DenmarkDenmark Copenhagen (1) Carpet (i) GermanyGermany David Prinosil 3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 1
12. July 12, 1998 SwedenSwedenBåstad (4) sand UkraineUkraine Andrij Medvedev 6: 2, 6: 3
13. March 7, 1999 DenmarkDenmarkCopenhagen (2) Hard court (i) FranceFrance Fabrice Santoro 6: 4, 6: 1
14th July 23, 2000 NetherlandsNetherlandsAmsterdam (2) sand NetherlandsNetherlands Raemon Sluiter 6: 7 4 , 6: 3, 7: 6 5 , 6: 1

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. July 6, 1998 SwedenSweden Båstad sand SwedenSweden Magnus Larsson South AfricaSouth Africa Lan Bale Piet Norval
South AfricaSouth Africa 		6: 4, 6: 2

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personal data
SURNAME Gustafsson, Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Lund , Sweden