Jonas Bjorkman
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Jonas Lars Björkman (born March 23, 1972, Växjö, Sweden) is a Swedish professional male tennis player and former World No. 1 in doubles.
Biography
The son of tennis coach and mailman Lars Björkman, Jonas began playing tennis at the age of six. At 18, he won the Swedish Junior Championship and was among the top 5 junior Swede players. He married Petra on December 2, 2000 in Stockholm and has a son, Max (born January 15, 2003). He plays righthanded and has a particularly good record against lefthanded players. He claims it´s because his father plays lefthanded.Career
He turned professional in 1991. In 1993, he won three Challenger singles titles. In 1994, he won seven titles in doubles including the 1994 ATP Tour World Championships in Jakarta. In 1995, he reached his first career ATP singles final in Hong Kong. In 1997, he became the 9th ever Swedish tennis player to finish in ATP top 10 at no. 4. He advanced to his first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open, losing to Greg Rusedski. At the 1998 Australian Open, he won his first career doubles Grand Slam title. 2000 saw him finishing in the singles top 50 for the fifth time in seven years.In his career, he has won six singles titles and 46 titles in doubles, including eight Grand Slam titles.
In the 2006 Wimbledon, he unexpectedly made it into the singles semi-finals at the age of 34, making him the oldest player to get there since Jimmy Connors in 1987. He had only made it into the singles quarter-finals once in 2003. He was unseeded, but defeated 14th-seeded Radek Stepanek. He had previously ousted his doubles partner Max Mirnyi and another Swede, Thomas Johansson, to make the quarter-finals. In the semi-final he found World No. 1 and defending champion Roger Federer too good and was overpowered in straight sets, 6-2, 6-0, 6-2.
Titles (53)
Singles(6), Doubles (47)
- 1994
- * [Doubles : 7] - Antwerp, Bastad, Doubles Championship, London / Queen's Club, Schenectady, Rotterdam, Jakarta
- 1995
- * [Doubles : 3] - Bastad, Toulouse, Ostrava
- 1996
- * [Doubles : 2] - Antwerp, New Delhi
- 1997
- * [Singles : 3] - Auckland, Indianapolis, Stockholm
- * [Doubles : 1] - Atlanta
- 1998
- * [Singles : 1] - Nottingham
- * [Doubles : 2] - Australian Open, Indian Wells
- 1999
- * [Doubles : 5] - Cincinnati, Stuttgart Indoor, Australian Open, Halle, Montreal / Toronto
- 2000
- * [Doubles : 1] - Moscow
- 2001
- * [Doubles : 4] - Rotterdam, Australian Open, Hamburg TMS, Monte Carlo AMS
- 2002
- * [Singles : 1] - Nottingham
- * [Doubles : 4] - Auckland, Bastad, Monte Carlo AMS, Wimbledon
- 2003
- * [Doubles : 4] - Halle, Stockholm, US Open, Wimbledon
- 2004
- * [Doubles : 4] - Bastad, Paris AMS, Sydney, Wimbledon
- 2005
- * [Singles : 1] - Ho Chi Minh City
- * [Doubles : 5] - Bastad, Cincinnati AMS, Hamburg AMS, Miami AMS, Roland Garros
- 2006
- * [Doubles : 5] - Doha, San Jose, Miami AMS, Monte Carlo AMS, Roland Garros
Singles finalist (5)
- 1995
- * Hong Kong
- 1997
- * Coral Springs, Paris Indoor
- 2003
- * Marseille
- 2006
- * Nottingham
Grand Slam Doubles
Titles (9)
- 1998 Australian Open (w/Jacco Eltingh)
- 1999 Australian Open (w/Patrick Rafter)
- 2001 Australian Open (w/Todd Woodbridge)
- 2002 Wimbledon (w/Todd Woodbridge)
- 2003 Wimbledon (w/Todd Woodbridge)
- 2003 US Open (w/Todd Woodbridge)
- 2004 Wimbledon (w/Todd Woodbridge)
- 2005 French Open (w/Max Mirnyi)
- 2006 French Open (w/Max Mirnyi)
Finals (2)
External links
- [Profile] on ATPtennis.com
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