Thomas Johansson

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Thomas Johansson

Country	Sweden
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Date of birth	24 March 1975
Place of birth	Linköping, Sweden
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Turned Pro	1994
Plays	Right
Career Prize Money	$6,119,752
Singles
Career record:	314-249
Career titles:	9
Highest ranking:	No. 7 (10 May 2002)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	W (2002)
French Open	2nd (1996, 2000, 2002, 2005)
Wimbledon	SF (2005)
U.S. Open	QF (1998, 2000)
Doubles
Career record:	53 - 75
Career titles:	1
Highest ranking:	No. 51 (17 July 2006)
Infobox last updated on: 5 November 2006.

Thomas Johansson (born March 24, 1975, in Linköping, Sweden) is a professional tennis player. He joined the pro tour for the first time in 1994 and has won 9 top-level singles titles and 1 doubles title, including the 1999 Canada Masters (df. Yevgeny Kafelnikov) and the 2002 Australian Open Grand Slam championship, which he unexpectedly won (on his 25th attempt at winning a Grand Slam title) after defeating his heavily favored opponent, Marat Safin, in four sets, 3-6 6-4 6-4 7-6. Johansson became the first Swedish player to win a Slam since Stefan Edberg won the 1992 U.S. Open title, and the first Swede to claim the Australian since Mats Wilander in 1988.

Johansson would later reach his career high ranking of World No. 7 in June of 2002 and finish the season with a career best year-end ranking of 14th in the ATP Champions Race, a feat he would later repeat in 2005.

A knee injury robbed Johansson of the latter half of the 2002 season and all of 2003, and Johansson was therefore unable to compete on the tour full-time until 2004. In 2005, he became the first Swedish player to reach the semifinals at Wimbledon since Stefan Edberg in 1993, losing to Andy Roddick in a tightly contested four set match, 7-6 2-6 6-7 6-7. At the end of the season, Johansson won his 9th, and until now, last ATP tournament in St. Petersburg, defeating Nicolas Kiefer 6-4 6-2.

In 2006, the Swede struggled through the season after suffering an eye injury early in the season. The highlights of the season were a 4th RD at the Australian Open (where he lost to Ivan Ljubicic), his first doubles title in Bastaad, Sweden with countryman Jonas Bjorkman and a final in St. Petersburg (lost to Mario Ancic), where he was the defending champion.

At the end of 2006, had an 11-12 career Davis Cup record (11-9 in singles) in 11 ties and an 314-249 career overall.

He is currently 69th in the ATP rankings.

Contents 1 Junior Career 2 Personal 3 Grand Slam singles finals 3.1 Wins (1) 4 ATP Masters Series singles finals 4.1 Wins (1) 5 Titles (10) 5.1 Singles (9) 5.2 Singles finalist (4) 5.3 Performance timeline 5.4 Doubles (1) 6 Trivia 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Junior Career

Began playing tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (w/Magnus Norman). Injured his right elbow while playing Orange Bowl 16s in 1991, but still reached final, losing to Spain’s Gonzalo Corrales. Finished No. 10 in 1993 world junior rankings.

[edit] Personal

Idol growing up was Mats Wilander, who is captain of Swedish Davis Cup team. Enjoys reading books from Swedish author Henning Mankell, National Geographic magazine and watches TV show Friends (owns almost every episode on DVD). His favorite actors are Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Enjoys music of U2, Depeche Mode and Swedish band Kent, playing golf and floorball. Enjoys watching home town ice hockey team Linköpings HC and Djurgårdens IF. Scored two goals and assisted on another in 6-5 win by ATP Stars over NHL Players in annual street hockey challenge in Montreal in 2001. Married Gisella on December 3, 2005.

[edit] Grand Slam singles finals

[edit] Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2002	Australian Open	Marat Safin	3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6

[edit] ATP Masters Series singles finals

[edit] Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1999	Montreal	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1-6, 6-3, 6-3

[edit] Titles (10)

[edit] Singles (9)

Legend Grand Slam (1) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (1) ATP Tour (7)

Titles by Surface Hard (5) Grass (2) Clay (0) Carpet (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	10 March 1997	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet	Martin Damm	6-4 3-6 6-2
2.	17 March 1997	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Renzo Furlan	6-3 6-4
3.	02 August 1999	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1-6 6-3 6-3
4.	20 November 2000	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6-2 6-4 6-4
5.	11 June 2001	Halle, Germany	Grass	Fabrice Santoro	6-3 6-7 6-2
6.	18 June 2001	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Harel Levy	7-5 6-3
7.	14 January 2002	Australian Open	Hard	Marat Safin	3-6 6-4 6-4 7-6
8.	25 October 2004	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Andre Agassi	3-6 6-3 7-6
9.	30 October 2005	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard	Nicolas Kiefer	6-4 6-2

[edit] Singles finalist (4)

• 1998: Rotterdam (lost to Jan Siemerink)
• 1998: Stockholm (lost to Todd Martin)
• 2004: Nottingham (lost to Paradorn Srichaphan)
• 2006: St. Petersburg (lost to Mario Ancic)

[edit] Performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is only updated once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics.

Tournament	Career	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994
Australian Open	1	4r	4r	1r	-	W	3r	2r	1r	1r	2r	2r	-	1r
French Open	0	1r	2r	-	-	2r	1r	2r	-	1r	1r	2r	1r	-
Wimbledon	0	1r	SF	3r	-	1r	2r	4r	2r	3r	2r	4r	-	-
US Open	0	1r	2r	3r	-	-	4r	QF	-	QF	1r	2r	-	-
Grand Slam Win-Loss	55-36	3-3	10-4	4-3	0-0	8-2	6-4	9-4	1-2	6-4	2-4	6-4	0-1	0-1
Tennis Masters Cup	0		-	-	-	RR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Finals reached	13	1	1	2	0	1	2	1	1	2	2	0	0	0
ATP Tournaments Won	9	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	0
Hardcourt Win-Loss	175-128	9-8	22-15	19-13	0-0	17-12	26-16	16-14	16-12	22-13	15-13	13-10	0-1	0-1
Grass Win-Loss	28-55	0-3	7-7	1-2	0-0	7-7	4-5	1-5	1-7	2-6	1-6	4-5	0-1	0-1
Clay Win-Loss	45-27	1-6	12-3	6-3	0-0	2-2	11-1	3-3	1-1	4-3	1-3	4-2	0-0	0-0
Carpet Win-Loss	65-39	0-0	6-1	3-3	0-0	3-3	5-3	2-4	4-5	17-9	15-5	7-4	1-1	0-0
Overall Win-Loss	314-248	10-17	47-26	29-21	0-0	29-24	46-25	22-26	22-25	45-31	32-27	28-21	1-3	0-2

Green background for wins. Yellow background from quarter finals up to finals.

[edit] Doubles (1)

No.	Date	Tournament Partner	Surface	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	16 July 2006	Bastad, Sweden w/ Jonas Björkman (Sweden)	Clay	Christopher Kas (Germany) and Oliver Marach (Austria)	6-3 4-6 10-4

[edit] Trivia

• He has no relation to Joachim Johansson, another Swedish tennis player.

[edit] See also

• Australian Open champions (Men's Singles)
• Tennis Masters Series
• ATP season 2005
• ATP season 2006

[edit] External links

• Official ATP Profile on ATP website
• Davis Cup Record