Stefan Edberg!
Stefan Edberg, born January 19, 1966 in Västervik, is a Swedish right-handed former professional tennis player. Stefan Edberg won the 1985-96 total of nine Grand Slam (GS)-titles, including six in singles and three in doubles. In 1983 he won so far only player a true junior Grand Slam in singles, that is victory in the junior single in all four GS tournaments over the years. In total, he won the ATP tournaments as a senior player 41 singles and eight doubles titles during his career. He belonged to the world's ten best players in 1985-94, and was among the top five of nine in a row (1985-93). Between 1990-92, he was ranked as world number one during the 72 weeks. He was also world number one in doubles for a period 1986th Edberg holds a record for the number of appearances in the GS-played (54), and was honored in 1987 with Anders Järryd to award the "ATP Doubles Team of the Year". Edberg was included in the Swedish Tennis Hall of Fame in 2003 and the International Tennis Hall of Fame 2004th
Tennis career [edit] Edberg became a professional player in 1983 at age 17. He won his first ATP title the same year (doubles in Basel) and his first singles title in 1984 (Milan). In 1985 he reached the first final of the Grand Slam Australian Open. It was a Swedish meeting between Edberg and Mats Wilander, Edberg who won in straight sets. He reached the final of the tournament also 1987th This was the last time the tournament was played on grass. Edberg won the very even match against home player Pat Cash over five sets. He followed up with victory in the men's doubles with Anders Järryd. In September, they won two also doubles title at the U.S. Open. Edberg won the Stockholm Open in 1986 and 1987. In 1985, he was in the final of the Swedish Open, which he lost to Mats Wilander.
In 1988 the Swedish point of view a stunning tennis. Mats Wilander won three singles titles in the GS tournaments (Australian Open, French Open and U.S. Open). In summer, Edberg played the first of three straight singles finals at Wimbledon. He met with the West German player Boris Becker as he defeated the four sets, after losing the first. The match came to be played over three days due to heavy rain which forced the game stops. That same year he captured two Olympic bronze medals in Seoul 1988th The one in singles and second in doubles with Anders Järryd.
The following year, 1989, Edberg was up in the two GS finals. The first was the French Open on clay courts at Roland Garros Stadium. Despite a brilliant effort from Edberg's side, his game was less suited to the slow surface, he lost to 17-year-old American Michael Chang over five sets. Chang thereby took its only GS title. Later in the summer Edberg reached the final of Wimbledon again, and met for the second time Boris Becker. Edberg, who was slightly worn and appeared discouraged, lost in three sets taka against Becker, who played a superb tennis with perfect passerslag from backplane. In the Australian Open in January 1990 reached Edberg finals, which he lost to Czech composer Ivan Lendl. Edberg was forced to give up in the third set because of an injury in an abdominal muscle he suffered earlier in the semifinals to Mats Wilander.
In the following Wimbledon in the summer of 1990, Edberg revenge on Ivan Lendl, who he struck out in the semifinals. This meant that rivals Edberg and Becker are met in the finals, which came to be settled in a little over three hours long and very strange match. Edberg started the match with a devastating attack effective tennis and played out the German. He took the lead with 2-0 in sets. Then came the match, Becker's efficient service and angled ground strokes won the day. Becker evened the match at 2-2 in sets and he also took the lead to 3-1 in the fifth set after a rough double faults in the serve of Edberg. In a situation where no one could help thinking that Becker would now take home the title, the match turned dramatically. Becker began the following ServeRAID gamete with a double fault, with Edberg suddenly "found" his own game again. He easily broke Becker's serve and went on to play Becker in the following vulture. He won a total of 21 balls against eleven for Becker to win 6-4 in the deciding set. Edberg had thus won his second singles title at Wimbledon.
Stefan Edberg was ranked first time as world number one in August 1990. In that year he won a total of seven ATP titles. He was in very good shape even in 1991. He then won six singles titles. He lost while their semifinal match at Wimbledon to the eventual champion Michael Stich, but won in style outclass the U.S. Open over American Jim Courier. His last GS title in singles, he took in 1992 at the U.S. Open, where he defeated Pete Sampras. The remarkable thing about the title defense was that Edberg came back from break down in the fifth set in both the fourth round, quarterfinals and semifinals. In 1996 he won the men's doubles title at the Australian Open with Czech composer Petr Korda. Edberg is the match ratio 178-47 the Swedish won the most Grand Slam appearances in men's singles, before Wilander 144-37, 141-16 Borg and Bjorkman 87-58.
He won the Olympic title in Los Angeles (exhibition tournament) in 1984 and participated in Sweden's victorious team in the World Team Cup 1988, 1991 and 1995.
Davis Cup player Edberg [edit] Stefan Edberg took part in the Swedish DC team 1984-96. He played a total of 70 games, winning 47 of them (including 33 in singles). In singles matches, he defeated players like Miloslav Mecir, Henri Leconte and Pete Sampras. During the first year, 1984, he played only two with Anders Järryd. In the same year reached the Swedish team world finals, which was played in Gothenburg on the United States. Edberg / Järryd defeated the American pair, double, Wimbledon winners John McEnroe / Peter Fleming, with the numbers 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, 7-5. The first day was Mats Wilander defeated Jimmy Connors and Henrik Sundstrom in his singles match John McEnroe. The Swedish team had with those three wins secured the 1984 title. The following year, 1985, Sweden won the Davis Cup again, now with West Germany as the final opponent. Edberg lost on Friday against Boris Becker, but won on Sunday with Michael Westphal. It was the first time since 1964 that a DC-finals were decided in the fifth and final set. The Swedish team met West Germany in the finals in 1988 and 1989, which Sweden lost, and on both occasions Edberg defeated by Boris Becker.
In 1994, Sweden won the world final over Russia. Edberg defeated Alexander Volkov, but lost to Yevgeny Kafelnikov in his two singles matches. It was Magnus Larsson hero when he won in 1997 and its two singles. His last two DC-action in doubles came Edberg to make the semifinals of the United States, 1992 and 1995. Two of the few times in his career in January Stefan was injured was in the World Finals in 1987 and when his career closed in 1996. Four games into the match against Cedric Pioline sprained his ankle so that both rubber1 was lost and the fact that it paved the way for Nicklas Kulti would make his legendary effort against the French turgubbe Arnaud Boetsch. Fotstukningen 1987 took place before the battle so that his doubles partner Anders Järryd had become a hero in singles play on a surface that was neither a primary for him or the Indians. What we like to remember of Stefan Edberg's DC operation in single is against Spain in 1987, Czechoslovakia in 1988, Austria 1989, France 1994 and the Czech Republic 1996th It is not often remembered by Stefan Edberg's DC operation in single is against Pat Cash in 1986, Yugoslavia with only Croatian player in 1991, Germany in 1993 and the aforementioned epilogue in malmöit Kingdom exhibition halls. And how Sweden had been able to be the best in the world uses, from 0-2 to 3-2, if not västervik world number one lost the 238-ranked Daniel Nestor, fifth grade to sixth grade world of Todd Martin and ninth grade against 125-ranked Fredrik Fetterlein?
The player and person [edit] Stefan Edberg played a pure attacking tennis and is regarded as one of the foremost serve-volley players ever. He had a very efficient service that he routinely followed up to net. He played there with great smoothness and softness of the movements volley or half volley. Basic Law was never very hard, but combined with high precision and low error rates, especially on the backhand side, while the forehand was slightly worse. His game is best suited for fast surface including grass, but worse on the slower surface such as gravel. By nature he is somewhat reserved, and he was able to interview situations to be shy and reticent. Few players on the ATP tour, however, was as respected for its professionalism and sportsmanship throughout the world as Stefan Edberg.
Stefan Edberg took an emotional farewell to racing in the ATP Stockholm Open 1996 at Royal Tennis Hall.
He married in April 1992, and has been with his wife two children were born in 1993 and 1997. The family was in their career lives in Kensington, London, but is now residing in Grimslöv outside Växjö.
