Jonas Björkman

**Jonas Björkman**

Country	Sweden
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Date of birth	March 23 1972 (1972--) (age 35)
Place of birth	Alvesta, Sweden
Height	m ({{FORMATNUM:5 ft 11+¹⁄₂ in}})
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Turned Pro	1991
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$13,842,859
Singles
Career record:	404 - 341
Career titles:	6
Highest ranking:	4 (November 3, 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1998, 2002)
French Open	4th (1996, 2007)
Wimbledon	SF (2006)
U.S. Open	SF (1997)
Doubles
Career record:	661 - 277
Career titles:	50
Highest ranking:	1 (9 July ,2001)
Infobox last updated on: July 9, 2007.

Jonas Lars Björkman (pronounced: YO-nas BYERK-mann) (born March 23, 1972, Alvesta, Sweden) is a Swedish professional male tennis player and former World No. 4 in singles and World No. 1 in doubles. He is as of the 2006 season the oldest player in the ATP Top 100 (singles).

Biography

The son of tennis coach and mailman Lars Björkman, Jonas began playing tennis at the age of six.^[1] At 18, he won the Swedish Junior Championship^[1] and was among the top 5 junior Swede players.^[1] He married Petra on December 2, 2000 in Stockholm and has a son, Max (born January 15, 2003).^[1] He plays righthanded and has a particularly good record against lefthanded players. He claims it's because his father plays lefthanded.^{[citation needed]}

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 ATP career, he has won six singles titles and 50 titles in doubles, including nine 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 Štěpánek in a match which included saving a match point. 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. When John McEnroe announced his official return to the ATP Pro Tour in 2006 he teamed up with Björkman to win the doubles title at the SAP Open in San Jose.

Singles titles (9)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (6)
ITF Titles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	March 15, 1993	Bergamo	Hard Indoors	Paolo Canè	7-5 6-2
2.	April 19, 1993	Nagoya	Hard	Patrick Rafter	7-6 7-6
3.	November 1, 1993	Aachen	Carpet	Jan Apell	6-3 3-6 7-5
4.	January 5, 1997	Auckland	Hard	Kenneth Carlsen	7-6 6-0
5.	August 11, 1997	Indianapolis	Hard	Carlos Moyà	6-3 7-6
6.	November 3, 1997	Stockholm	Hard Indoors	Jan Siemerink	3-6 7-6 6-2 6-4
7.	June 15, 1998	Nottingham	Grass	Byron Black	6-3 6-2
8.	June 17, 2002	Nottingham	Grass	Wayne Arthurs	6-2 6-7 6-2
9.	September 26, 2005	Ho Chi Minh City	Carpet	Radek Štěpánek	6-3 7-6

Singles finalist (5)

1995
- Hong Kong

1997
- Coral Springs, Paris Indoor

2003
- Marseille

2006
- Nottingham

Doubles titles (51)

Legend
Grand Slam (9)
Tennis Masters Cup (2)
ATP Masters Series (14)
ATP Tour (26)

Titles by Surface
Hard (25)
Clay (14)
Grass (6)
Carpet (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	17 January, 1994	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Neil Borwick	Jorge Lozano Jim Pugh	6-4, 6-1
2.	28 February, 1994	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet	Jeremy Bates	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	6-4, 6-1
3.	13 June, 1994	London, England	Grass	Jan Apell	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	5-7, 7-6, 6-4
4.	11 July, 1994	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Jan Apell	Nicklas Kulti Mikael Tillström	6-2, 6-3
5.	29 August, 1994	Schenectady, U.S.	Hard	Jan Apell	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	6-4, 7-6
6.	14 November, 1994	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Jan Apell	Hendrik Jan Davids Sébastien Lareau	4-6, 6-1, 6-2
7.	28 November, 1994	Tennis Masters Cup, Jakarta	Hard (i)	Jan Apell	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 7-6⁵, 7-6⁶
8.	17 July, 1995	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Jan Apell	Jon Ireland Andrew Kratzmann	6-3, 6-0
9.	9 October, 1995	Toulouse, France	Hard (i)	John-Laffnie De Jager	Dave Randall Greg Van Emburgh	7-6, 7-6
10.	16 October, 1995	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Carpet	Javier Frana	Guy Forget Patrick Rafter	6-7, 6-4, 7-6
11.	26 February, 1996	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Nicklas Kulti	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Menno Oosting	6-4, 6-4
12.	15 April, 1996	New Delhi, India	Hard	Nicklas Kulti	Byron Black Sandon Stolle	4-6, 6-4, 6-4
13.	5 May, 1997	Atlanta, U.S.	Clay	Nicklas Kulti	Scott Davis Kelly Jones	6-2, 7-6
14.	2 February, 1998	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Jacco Eltingh	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6-2, 5-7, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
15.	16 March, 1998	Indian Wells, U.S.	Hard	Patrick Rafter	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6-0, 6-3
16.	1 February, 1999	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Patrick Rafter	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7¹⁰, 6-4
17.	14 June, 1999	Halle, Germany	Grass	Patrick Rafter	Paul Haarhuis Jared Palmer	6-3, 7-5
18.	9 August, 1999	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Patrick Rafter	Byron Black Wayne Ferreira	6-4, 6-3
19.	16 August, 1999	Cincinnati, U.S.	Hard	Byron Black	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6-1, 2-6, 7-6³
20.	1 November, 1999	Stuttgart Indoor, Germany	Hard (i)	Byron Black	David Adams John-Laffnie De Jager	6-3, 6-4
21.	30 October, 2000	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	David Prinosil	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6-2, 6-3
22.	29 January, 2001	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Byron Black David Prinosil	6-1, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
23.	26 February, 2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Roger Federer	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6-3, 6-0
24.	23 April, 2001	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Todd Woodbridge	Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent	3-6, 6-4, 6-2
25.	21 May, 2001	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Todd Woodbridge	Daniel Nestor Sandon Stolle	7-6², 3-6, 6-3
26.	14 January, 2002	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Martin Garcia Cyril Suk	7-6⁵, 7-6⁷
27.	22 April, 2002	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Todd Woodbridge	Paul Haarhuis Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6-3, 3-6, 10-7
28.	8 July, 2002	Wimbledon, London	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6-1, 6-2, 6-7⁷, 7-5
29.	15 July, 2002	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Todd Woodbridge	Paul Hanley Michael Hill	7-6⁶, 6-4
30.	16 June, 2003	Halle, Germany	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	6-3, 6-4
31.	7 July, 2003	Wimbledon, London	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	3-6, 6-3, 7-6⁴, 6-3
32.	8 September, 2003	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5-7, 6-0, 7-5
33.	27 October, 2003	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Todd Woodbridge	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	6-3, 6-4
34.	19 January, 2004	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7-6³, 7-5
35.	5 July, 2004	Wimbledon, London	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Julian Knowle Nenad Zimonjić	6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
36.	12 July, 2004	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mahesh Bhupathi	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	4-6, 7-6², 7-6⁶
37.	8 November, 2004	Paris, France	Carpet	Todd Woodbridge	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	6-3, 6-4
38.	4 April, 2005	Miami, U.S.	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	6-1, 6-2
39.	16 May, 2005	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	6-2, 6-3
40.	6 June, 2005	French Open, Paris	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2-6, 6-1, 6-4
41.	11 July, 2005	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Joachim Johansson	José Acasuso Sebastian Prieto	6-2, 6-3
42.	22 August, 2005	Cincinnati, U.S.	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	6-4, 5-7, 6-2
43.	9 January, 2006	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Christophe Rochus Olivier Rochus	2-6, 6-3, 10-8
44.	20 February, 2006	San Jose, U.S.	Hard (i)	John McEnroe	Paul Goldstein Jim Thomas	7-6², 4-6, 10-7
45.	3 April, 2006	Miami, U.S.	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6-4, 6-4
46.	24 April, 2006	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	3-6, 6-3, 10-7
47.	12 June, 2006	French Open, Paris	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6-7⁵, 6-4, 7-5
48.	17 July, 2006	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Thomas Johansson	Christopher Kas Oliver Marach	6-3, 4-6, 10-4
49.	21 August, 2006	Cincinnati, U.S.	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7-6⁵, 6-4
50.	20 November, 2006	Tennis Masters Cup, Shanghai	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6-2, 6-4
51.	14 October, 2007	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	6-4, 6-4

Mens' doubles runner-ups (41)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	17 August, 1992	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Jon Ireland	Karel Nováček Branislav Stankovic	7-5, 6-1
2.	4 October, 1993	Kuala Lumpur-2, Malaysia	Hard	Lars-Andres Wahlgren	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7-5, 4-6, 7-6
3.	15 November, 1993	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Jan Apell