STEFAN EDBERG BIOGRAPHY
Country Sweden Residence Växjö, Sweden Date of Birth 19 January 1966 Place of birth Västervik, Sweden Turned Pro 1983 Tennis Hall of Fame Member since 2004 Career record 806-270 (74.9%) Career titles 42 Highest ranking No. 1 (13 August 1990 for 72 weeks) Plays Right-handed; one-handed backhand STEFAN EDBERG BIOGRAPHY
Grand Slam Results
Australian Open Won 1985 and 1987 French Open Final 1989 Wimbledon Won 1988 and 1990 US Open Won 1991 and 1992
Major Tournaments
Tour Finals Won 1989 Olympic Games Won 1984 (demonstration event), bronze medal 1988
Doubles Career record 283-153 Career titles 18 Highest ranking No. 1 (1986) Australian Open Won 1987 and 1996 French Open Won 1986 Wimbledon Semifinal 1987 US Open Won 1987 Major doubles tournaments Olympic Games bronze medal 1988 STEFAN EDBERG BIOGRAPHY
Distinctions and honors
• Edberg played on 4 Swedish Davis Cup winning teams in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1994. He appeared in seven Davis Cup finals—a record for a Swedish player.
• Since the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) computer rankings began, Edberg and John McEnroe are the only men to be ranked World No. 1 in both singles and doubles.
• Edberg is the only player ever to earn both Player of the Year and Doubles Team of the Year. Edberg won Player of the Year in 1990 and 1991 and Doubles Team of the Year (with fellow Swede Anders Järryd) in 1986.
• Edberg and Boris Becker are the only male tennis players ever to receive the United Press International Athlete of the Year Award (with Edberg having received the award in 1990).
• Edberg was also a member of the Swedish teams that won the World Team Cup in 1988, 1991 and 1995.
• At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where tennis was a demonstration sport, Edberg won the men’s singles gold medal. Four years later, at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, tennis became a full medal sport and Edberg won bronze medals in both the men’s singles and the men’s doubles. • During his career, Edberg won a total of 42 top-level singles titles and 18 doubles titles and appeared in a then record 54 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments (since then broken by Wayne Ferreira).
• He was ranked the World No. 1 for a total of 72 weeks.
• Edberg was also a five-time recipient of the ATP Sportsmanship Award (1988-90, 1992 and 1995). In recognition of this achievement, the ATP renamed the award the “Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award” in 1996.
• In 2004, Edberg was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. STEFAN EDBERG BIOGRAPHY
Distinctions and honors
• Edberg won singles titles in 12 different countries: Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Edberg is considered by Tennis Magazine as the 14th greatest player, counting both male and female tennis players, of the Tennis Era. Counting men only, Edberg ranks 8th.
• Edberg was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1990.
• Edberg was a childhood hero of current World No. 1 Roger Federer.
• Edberg is one of the few players who reached the final of all four Grand Slam tournaments, winning three of them. In the 1989 French Open final, Edberg lead the match by two sets to one over Michael Chang and had numerous break points during the fourth and fifth sets. He eventually led the match by a break in the fifth set but could not win it.
• Edberg won several Grand Slam matches after being down a break of service in the fifth and deciding set. Notable examples include the 1988 Wimbledon semifinal against Miloslav Mečíř, the 1989 French Open semifinal against Boris Becker, and the 1990 Wimbledon final against Becker. In the 1992 US Open, Edberg did it in three consecutive matches, against Richard Krajicek in the fourth round, Ivan Lendl in the quarterfinals, and Chang in the semifinals. In all these examples except the 1989 French Open final, Edberg went on to win the title.
Post-career competitive tennis
In September 2008, Stefan Edberg officially joined the Black Rock Tour of Champions, a tour for professional tennis players who have since retired from the ATP Tour.
In January 2012, Edberg played a 1 set exhibition against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Doha, Qa- tar, and lost 7–5