Peter Vikström

Peter Vikström
Peter Vikström at the 2012 Paralympics in London
Nation:	Sweden
Birthday:	4th January 1977
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	316: 134
Highest ranking:	8 (November 8, 2004)
Double
Career record:	276: 118
Highest ranking:	6 (September 26, 2005)
Paralympic Games
Last update of the infobox: February 14, 2015
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Peter Vikström (born January 4, 1977 in Piteå ) is a Swedish wheelchair tennis player .

Career

Peter Vikström started wheelchair tennis at the age of 21 and has been in the paraplegic class ever since . He participated in four Paralympic Games in his career .

In 2000 and 2004 he stayed at the Paralympics without winning a medal. In 2000 he reached the second round in singles and the second round in doubles. Four years later, he improved by one round each: he was eliminated in singles in the round of 16, in doubles in the quarterfinals. In 2008 he won the silver medal in the doubles competition with Stefan Olsson . In the final they lost to Stéphane Houdet and Michaël Jeremiasz . Four years later , he and Olsson won the gold medal in London after defeating Frédéric Cattaneo and Nicolas Peifer in the final.

At the Wheelchair Tennis Masters he reached the final in the doubles competition in 2008, which he won with Stefan Olsson against Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink . In the world rankings, he achieved his best placings with eighth place in singles on November 8, 2004 and sixth place in doubles on September 26, 2005.

Web links

Commons : Peter Vikström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ITF profile of Peter Vikström (English)