Thomas Johansson

Thomas Johansson and Simon Aspelin
Country	Sweden
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Born	(1975-03-24) 24 March 1975 (age 38) Linköping, Sweden
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Turned pro	1993
Retired	12 June 2009
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$7,168,029
Singles
Career record	357–296
Career titles	9
Highest ranking	No. 7 (10 May 2002)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	W (2002)
French Open	2R (1996, 2000, 2002, 2005)
Wimbledon	SF (2005)
US Open	QF (1998, 2000)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2002)
Olympic Games	2R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	76–98
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 51 (17 July 2006)
Other Doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	Silver Medal (2008)
Last updated on: 22 September 2012.

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Sweden
Men's Tennis
Silver	2008 Beijing	Doubles

Karl Thomas Conny Johansson (born 24 March 1975), commonly known as Thomas Johansson, is a former Swedish tennis grand slam champion. He won the 2002 Australian Open and was an Olympic Silver medalist in doubles.

Career [edit]

Junior career [edit]

Johansson began to play tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (with Magnus Norman). Even when he injured his right elbow while playing Orange Bowl 16s in 1991, he reached the final, losing to Spain's Gonzalo Corrales. He finished No. 10 in the 1993 world junior rankings.

Senior career [edit]

That same year he joined the pro tour for the first time. He has managed to win 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 later reached his career-high ranking of World No. 7 in June 2002 and finished the season with a career-best year-end ranking of 14th in the ATP Champions Race, a feat he later repeated 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 round at the Australian Open (where he lost to Ivan Ljubičić), his first doubles title in Bastaad, Sweden with countryman Jonas Björkman, and a final in St. Petersburg (lost to Mario Ančić), where he was the defending champion.

At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics he reached the doubles final with Simon Aspelin, where he lost against the Swiss team of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka.

As of 6 March 2009, he has an 18–15 career Davis Cup record (17–12 in singles) in 17 ties, and an 356–292 career overall. He is sponsored by Dunlop Sport for racquets and apparel, and adidas for shoes. He uses a heavily modified Dunlop Pro Revelation racquet 'paintjobbed' to look like the current Dunlop 4D Aerogel 500 racquet.

He announced his retirement in June 2009 after a 16 year career.

Personal [edit]

His idol while growing up was Mats Wilander, who is captain of Swedish Davis Cup team. He is a fan of popular culture, reading books by Swedish author Henning Mankell, National Geographic magazine and watching TV show Friends (he owns almost every episode on DVD). His favorite actors are Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Johansson is a fan of U2, Depeche Mode and Swedish band Kent, and is a keen player of golf and floorball. Johansson is a fan of ice hockey, frequently watching Linköpings HC and Djurgårdens IF. He 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. Johansson married Gisella Kaltencher on 3 December 2005.

Major finals [edit]

Grand Slam finals [edit]

Singles: 1 (1–0) [edit]

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
2002	Australian Open	Hard	Marat Safin	3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)

ATP Masters Series finals [edit]

Singles: 1 (1–0) [edit]

Wins (1)

Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1999	Montréal	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1–6, 6–3, 6–3

Career finals [edit]

Singles: 14 (9–5) [edit]

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	10 March 1997	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Martin Damm	6–4, 3–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	17 March 1997	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Renzo Furlan	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	2 March 1998	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	6–7(2–7), 2–6
Runner-up	2.	9 November 1998	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Todd Martin	3–6, 4–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	2 August 1999	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner	4.	20 November 2000	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–2, 6–4, 6–4
Winner	5.	11 June 2001	Halle, Germany	Grass	Fabrice Santoro	6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–2
Winner	6.	18 June 2001	Nottingham, UK	Grass	Harel Levy	7–5, 6–3
Winner	7.	14 January 2002	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Marat Safin	3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	3.	14 June 2004	Nottingham, UK	Grass	Paradorn Srichaphan	6–1, 6–7(4–7), 3–6
Winner	8.	25 October 2004	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Andre Agassi	3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	9.	24 October 2005	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Kiefer	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	23 October 2006	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Mario Ančić	5–7, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	5.	8 October 2007	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Ivo Karlović	3–6, 6–3, 1–6

Doubles: 2 (1–1) [edit]

Wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
1.	16 July 2006	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Jonas Björkman	Christopher Kas Oliver Marach	6–3, 4–6, [10–4]

Runner-ups (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
1.	17 August 2008	Summer Olympics, Beijing, China	Hard	Simon Aspelin	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	3–6, 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 3–6

Singles performance timeline [edit]

As of 14 October 2007. 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.

See also [edit]

• List of Grand Slam Men's Singles champions

External links [edit]

• Thomas Johansson at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Thomas Johansson at the International Tennis Federation
• Thomas Johansson at the Davis Cup
• Johansson Recent Match Results
• Johansson World Ranking History