Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander
Wilander 2010 at the US Open of Champions
Nation:	Sweden
Birthday:	22nd August 1964
Size:	183 cm
1st professional season:	1981
Resignation:	1996
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 7,976,256
singles
Career record:	571: 222
Career title:	33
Highest ranking:	1 (September 12, 1988)
Weeks as No. 1:	20th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	168: 127
Career title:	7th
Highest ranking:	3 (October 21 1985)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Mats Wilander (born August 22, 1964 in Växjö ) is a former Swedish tennis player and today's television presenter .

Career

Mats Wilander won seven Grand Slam titles ( Australian Open 1983, 1984 and 1988; French Open 1982, 1985 and 1988 and US Open 1988) and the Davis Cup three times with the Swedish team . He also won the doubles competition at Wimbledon in 1986 with his childhood friend Joakim Nyström . From September 1988 to January 1989 he was number 1 in tennis.

In the 1982 Davis Cup quarter-finals , Wilander lost to John McEnroe in a five-set marathon (7: 9, 2: 6, 17:15, 6: 3, 6: 8) over 6 hours and 22 minutes. It was the longest single match in Davis Cup history. Until the first round match of the French Open 2004 between Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clément , which ended with 6: 4, 6: 3, 6: 7 (5: 7), 3: 6 and 16:14, this game was the longest in history of professional tennis at all. In 1989 Wilander lost the longest game in Davis Cup history after the introduction of the tie-break , when he won Horst Skoff in the quarterfinals after 6 hours and 4 minutes with 7: 6 ⁵ , 6: 7 ⁷ , 6: 1, 4 : 6 and 7: 9 were defeated.

Wilander won 33 singles and seven doubles titles in his career. In his home country he was honored with the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal in 1982 and in 1983 with the radio sport Jerringpris . At the age of 20 he had already won four Grand Slam titles, no other player has achieved that to this day. At the Australian Open 1983 he won the title at the age of 19 years and three months, making him the youngest winner of the tournament within the Open Era. Only he and Rafael Nadal have won at least two Grand Slam tournaments in the Open Era on clay, grass and hard courts. Wilander and Nadal are the only ones who won the French Open when they first participated.

He tested positive for cocaine at the French Open in 1995 , for which he was later banned for three months. In 1996 Wilander announced his retirement from professional tennis.

Wilander is playing on the ATP Champions Tour today . From mid-2001 to mid-2002 he coached the Russian tennis player Marat Safin . Other activities as a trainer followed, e.g. B. the French tennis players Tatiana Golovin (July 2007 to the end of 2007) and Paul-Henri Mathieu (from December 2007). He was also the Swedish Davis Cup captain from 2003 , which he ended in October 2009.

Wilander has been accompanying the French Open, US Open and Australian Open as an expert for the pan-European sports channel Eurosport since 2006 . During the Grand Slam tournaments, he has been an expert in the evening live show "Game, Schett and Mats", first moderated by Annabel Croft and later by Barbara Schett , in which the encounters of the day are analyzed.

Career record

Tournament / statistics	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Australian Open	1R	-	S.	S.	F.	-	-	S.	2R	HF	AF	-	-	AF	1R	-
French Open	-	S.	F.	HF	S.	3R	F.	S.	VF	-	2R	-	-	1R	2R	2R
Wimbledon	3R	AF	3R	2R	1R	AF	VF	VF	VF	-	-	-	-	-	3R	-
US Open	-	AF	VF	VF	HF	AF	F.	S.	2R	1R	-	-	3R	1R	2R	-
Tournament victories	0	4th	9	3	3	2	5	6th	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
World ranking	69	7th	4th	4th	3	3	3	1	12	41	159	-	330	129	46	96

AF = round of 16; VF = quarter finals; HF = semifinals; F = final; S = tournament victory; Digit = 1.-3. Tournament round

successes

Legend

Grand Slam

ATP tour

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 6, 1982	French Open	sand	Guillermo Vilas	1: 6, 7: 6, 6: 0, 6: 4
2.	July 18, 1982	Båstad	sand	Henrik Sundström	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	September 26, 1982	Geneva	sand	Tomáš Šmíd	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 4
4th	October 10, 1982	Barcelona	sand	Guillermo Vilas	6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 3
5.	April 3, 1983	Monte Carlo	sand	Mel Purcell	6: 1, 6: 2, 6: 3
6th	April 10, 1983	Lisbon	sand	Yannick Noah	2: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4
7th	April 17, 1983	Aix-en-Provence	sand	Sergio Casal	6: 3, 6: 2
8th.	17th July 1983	Båstad	sand	Järryd is different	6: 1, 6: 2
9.	August 21, 1983	Cincinnati	Hard court	John McEnroe	6: 4, 6: 4
10.	September 25, 1983	Geneva	sand	Henrik Sundström	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 3
11.	October 9, 1983	Barcelona	sand	Guillermo Vilas	6: 0, 6: 3, 6: 1
12.	November 6, 1983	Stockholm	Carpet (i)	Tomáš Šmíd	6: 1, 7: 5
13.	December 12, 1983	Australian Open	race	Ivan Lendl	6: 1, 6: 4, 6: 4
14th	August 26, 1984	Cincinnati	Hard court	Järryd is different	7: 6, 6: 3
15th	October 7, 1984	Barcelona	sand	Joakim Nyström	7: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
16.	December 9, 1984	Australian Open	race	Kevin Curren	6: 7, 6: 4, 7: 6, 6: 2
17th	June 9, 1985	French Open	sand	Ivan Lendl	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2, 6: 2
18th	July 14, 1985	Boston	Hard court	Martin Jaite	6: 2, 6: 4
19th	July 21, 1985	Båstad	sand	Stefan Edberg	6: 1, 6: 0
20th	March 23, 1986	Brussels	Carpet (i)	Broderick Dyke	6: 2, 6: 3
21st	August 24, 1986	Cincinnati	Hard court	Jimmy Connors	6: 4, 6: 1
22nd	March 29, 1987	Brussels	Carpet (i)	John McEnroe	6: 3, 6: 4
23.	April 26, 1987	Monte Carlo	sand	Jimmy Arias	4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 1, 6: 3
24.	May 17, 1987	Rome	sand	Martin Jaite	6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 4
25th	July 12, 1987	Boston	Hard court	Kent Carlsson	7: 6, 6: 1
26th	July 19, 1987	Indianapolis	Hard court	Kent Carlsson	7: 5, 6: 3
27.	January 24, 1988	Australian Open	Hard court	Pat Cash	6: 3, 6: 7, 3: 6, 6: 1, 8: 6
28.	March 27, 1988	Key Biscayne	Hard court	Jimmy Connors	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
29	5th June 1988	French Open	sand	Henri Leconte	7: 5, 6: 2, 6: 1
30th	August 21, 1988	Cincinnati	Hard court	Stefan Edberg	3: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6
31.	September 11, 1988	US Open	Hard court	Ivan Lendl	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 4
32.	October 2nd, 1988	Palermo	sand	Kent Carlsson	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 4
33.	November 11, 1990	Itaparica	Hard court	Marcelo Filippini	6: 1, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	17th July 1983	Båstad	sand	Joakim Nyström	Järryd Hans Simonsson is different	1: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6
2.	September 23, 1984	Geneva	sand	Michael Mortensen	Libor Pimek Tomáš Šmíd	6: 1, 3: 6, 7: 5
3.	January 27, 1985	Philadelphia	Hard court (i)	Joakim Nyström	Wojciech Fibak Sandy Mayer	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
4th	May 19, 1985	Rome	sand	Järryd is different	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
5.	July 6, 1986	Wimbledon	race	Joakim Nyström	Gary Donnelly Peter Fleming	7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
6th	August 7, 1994	Prague	sand	Karel Nováček	Tomáš Krupa Pavel Vízner	walkover
7th	October 30, 1994	Santiago de Chile	sand	Karel Nováček	Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig	4: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6

Awards

• 1982: Svenska Dagbladet gold medal
• 1983: Radiosportens Jerringpris
• 1984: World Team of the Year with the Swedish Davis Cup team in the choice of Gazzetta dello Sport (together with Stefan Edberg , Anders Järryd and Henrik Sundström )

See also

• List of winners of the Grand Slam tournaments (men's singles)

Web links

Commons : Mats Wilander  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Mats Wilander (English)
• ITF profile of Mats Wilander (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Mats Wilander (English)
• Mats Wilander in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spiegel.de: Mixed Zone . May 11, 2009