Jonas Björkman

Born on March 23, 1972, Jonas Lars Björkman started playing tennis at the age of 6 and won the Swedish Junior championship at the age of 18. This right-handed player turned pro in 1991. 1993 was a good year for Björkman because this was when he won three Challenger singles titles. A year later he bagged seven doubles titles and in 1995 reached his first ATP singles final in Hong Kong.

He finished inside the ATP top 10 at no. 4 in 1997. A year later, Björkman won his first career doubles title in a Grand Slam. All in all, Jonas Lars Björkman’s ATP titles include six singles titles and fifty-four doubles titles, among them nine Grand Slam titles in doubles.

Jonas Lars Björkman first played on the Davis Cup in 1994, and since then has regularly represented Sweden, playing for his country in 1994, t 1997 and 1998.

He also made it to the singles semi-finals in Wimbledon in 2006 at the age of 34, the oldest player to do so since Jimmy Connors did so in 1987. It was also during this year that he teamed up with John McEnroe to win the doubles title at the SAP Open. He played his last doubles match in 2008 with partner Kevin Ullyett reaching the finals before bowing to second seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić. He officially retired from the sport when he and his partner failed to make the cut for the doubles semifinal at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup-Doubles.

Jonas Lars Björkman married Petra on December 2, 2000. He and his wife had a son named Max on January 15, 2003.