Mirjam Björklund

Mirjam Björklund
Nation:	Sweden
Birthday:	July 29, 1998
Prize money:	$ 41,855
singles
Career record:	113: 58
Career title:	0 WTA , 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	320 (July 1, 2019)
Current placement:	320
Double
Career record:	31:29
Career title:	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	515 (September 24, 2018)
Current placement:	600
Last update of the infobox: July 1st, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Mirjam Björklund (born July 29, 1998 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish tennis player .

Career

Björklund mainly plays in tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit and has already won six titles in singles and one in doubles.

In 2016 she competed in three of the four Grand Slams in junior singles. At the French Open , she was eliminated in the first round against No. 2 seeded and later finalist Amanda Anisimova with 4: 6 and 3: 6. At Wimbledon she suffered the same fate, when she lost in the first round to No. 4 seeded and later winner Anastassija Potapova with 1: 6 and 0: 6. At the US Open she also lost to Alexandra Sanford in the first round 7: 6, ⁵ , 3: 6 and 3: 6.

Björklund achieved her first tournament win in Knokke in July 2017. Two weeks later she received a wildcard for the main draw in the singles of the Ericsson Open in Båstad , her first tournament on the WTA Tour . She failed here in the first round against Kateryna Koslowa with 6: 3, 2: 6 and 6: 7 ⁴ . In doubles, she started with her partner Ida Jarlskog, also with a wildcard. But even in doubles, Ellen Allgurin and Karen Barritza ended after three sets in the first round.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 16, 2017	Knokke	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Marie Temin	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	June 12, 2018	Brussels	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Julyette Maria Josephine Steur	7: 5, 6: 1
3.	January 27, 2019	Monastir	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Gozal Ainitdinova	6: 2, 7: 5
4th	February 24, 2019	Monastir	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Despina Papamichail	1: 6, 7: 6 3 , 6: 3
5.	March 24, 2019	Tabarka	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Chantal Škamlová	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	5th May 2019	Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Gabriela Cé	6: 3, 7: 6 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	19th November 2017	Hammamet	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Lexie Stevens	Beatrice Lombardo Gaia Squarcialupi	6: 3, 6: 0

Web links

• WTA profile of Mirjam Björklund (English)
• ITF profile of Mirjam Björklund (English)
• ITF junior profile Mirjam Björklund (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Damerna levererar - triss i singeltitlar: Mirjam Björklund, Johanna Larsson och Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (tennis.se from July 17, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018, Swedish)
2. ↑ Wild card till svensk supertalang (mynewsdesk.com from July 22, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018)
3. ↑ Strong form Björklund får göra WTA debut: "Helt sjukt" (tennis.se from July 23, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018, Swedish)
4. ↑ Mirjam slår sig in bland seniorerna (stockholmdirekt.se of August 10, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018, Swedish)