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	Olympic medal record
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Men's Tennis

Simon Aspelin
Country	Sweden
Residence	London, England
Date of birth	11 May 1974 (age 35)
Place of birth	Saltsjöbaden, Sweden
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Turned pro	1998
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$1,769,475
Singles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	-
Highest ranking	No. 436 (17 August, 1998)
Doubles
Career record	302–261
Career titles	11
Highest ranking	No. 7 (3 March, 2008)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2006)
French Open	3r (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	QF (2004, 2006)
US Open	W (2007)
Major doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	F (2007)
Olympic Games	Silver medal (2008)
	Last updated on: 26 October 2009.

Simon Aspelin (born 11 May 1974 in Saltsjöbaden) is a professional doubles player (tennis) from Sweden who turned professional in 1998. Aspelin has achieved a career-high singles ranking relevant as of 23 March 2007, of World Number 436 which he reached on 17 August 1998.

A memorable part of Aspelin's career was when he and doubles partner Todd Perry were playing in the 2006 Wimbledon Championships men's doubles quarterfinals as the eighth-seeded doubles team against third-seeded Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor. Knowles and Nestor won the match by winning the final set 23–21.

At the 2007 U.S. Open, seeded tenth with his partner Julian Knowle, Aspelin achieved the greatest triumph of his career by winning the U.S. Open, his first Grand Slam. In the first two rounds, they won over Kubot/Skoch 6–2 6–2 and got a walkover over Calleri/Horna. They went on to upset the eighth seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the third round. In the quarterfinals, they shocked the top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan 7–5 6–4, having lost to them only weeks before. In the semi-finals, they held off unseeded Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut 7–6(2) 1–6 6–3, before winning the final 7–5 6–4 over the ninth seeds, Pavel Vízner and Lukáš Dlouhý. He had never before reached a Grand Slam semifinal. This win put them into the #5 position in the ATP Doubles Race, and also gave Aspelin his career-high ranking of #13. His Davis cup record in march 2009 is 3–5 in doubles.

Another notable performance in 2007 was the final against Knowles/Nestor in Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, which he lost with Julian Knowle.

In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he and fellow Swede Thomas Johansson defeated French pair Michaël Llodra and Arnaud Clément 7–6 (6), 4–6, 19–17 in the semi-finals. The match that lasted 4 hours and 46 minutes. They went on to win the silver medal.

[edit] Grand Slam men's doubles finals (1)

[edit] Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2007	U.S. Open	Julian Knowle	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	7–5, 6–4

[edit] Runner-ups (0)

[edit] Career titles

[edit] Doubles (11)

Legend
Grand Slam (1)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP International Series Gold (2)
ATP Tour (8)

Titles by Surface
Hard (4)
Clay (5)
Grass (1)
Carpet (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	7 February 2000	Marseille	Hard	Johan Landsberg	Juan Ignacio Carrasco Jairo Velasco Jr.	7–6, 6–4
2.	19 May 2003	St. Pölten	Clay	Massimo Bertolini	Sargis Sargsian Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 6–7, 6–3
3.	7 July 2003	Båstad	Clay	Massimo Bertolini	Lucas Arnold Mariano Hood	6–7, 6–0, 6–4
4.	31 January 2005	Delray Beach	Hard	Todd Perry	Jordan Kerr Jim Thomas	6–3, 6–3
5.	14 February 2005	Memphis	Hard (i)	Todd Perry	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–4
6.	23 October 2006	St. Petersburg	Carpet	Todd Perry	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	6–1, 7–6
7.	26 May 2007	Pörtschach	Clay	Julian Knowle	Leoš Friedl David Škoch	7–6, 5–7, [10-5]
8.	17 June 2007	Halle	Grass	Julian Knowle	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 7–6(5)
9.	15 July 2007	Båstad	Clay	Julian Knowle	Martin García Sebastián Prieto	6–2, 6–4
10.	7 September 2007	U.S. Open	Hard	Julian Knowle	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	7–5, 6–4
11.	26 July 2009	Hamburg	Clay	Paul Hanley	Marcelo Melo Filip Polášek	6–3, 6–3

[edit] Runner-up (19)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	15 July 2001	Båstad	Clay	Andrew Kratzmann	Karsten Braasch Jens Knippschild	6–7, 6–4, 6–7
2.	29 July 2001	Kitzbühel	Clay	Andrew Kratzmann	Alex Corretja Luis Lobo	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
3.	24 February 2002	Buenos Aires	Clay	Andrew Kratzmann	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	6–3, 3–6, [4-10]
4.	14 April 2002	Estoril	Clay	Andrew Kratzmann	Karsten Braasch Andrei Olhovskiy	3–6, 3–6
5.	14 September 2003	Bucharest	Clay	Jeff Coetzee	Karsten Braasch Sargis Sargsian	6–7, 2–6
6.	11 July 2004	Båstad	Clay	Todd Perry	Mahesh Bhupathi Jonas Björkman	6–4, 6–7, 6–7
7.	17 July 2004	Stuttgart	Clay	Todd Perry	Jiří Novák Radek Štěpánek	2–6, 4–6
8.	9 January 2005	Adelaide	Hard	Todd Perry	Xavier Malisse Olivier Rochus	6–7, 4–6
9.	17 January 2005	Auckland	Hard	Todd Perry	Yves Allegro Michael Kohlmann	4–6, 6–7
10.	20 June 2005	Nottingham	Grass	Todd Perry	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	6–4, 3–6, 5–7
11.	25 July 2005	Indianapolis	Hard	Todd Perry	Paul Hanley Graydon Oliver	2–6, 1–3 ret.
12.	10 October 2005	Tokyo	Hard	Todd Perry	Satoshi Iwabuchi Takao Suzuki	4–5, 4–5
13.	14 January 2006	Auckland	Hard	Todd Perry	Andrei Pavel Rogier Wassen	2–6, 7–5, [4-10]
14.	14 January 2007	Auckland	Hard	Chris Haggard	Jeff Coetzee Rogier Wassen	7–6, 3–6, [2-10]
15.	17 November 2007	Tennis Masters Cup, Shanghai	Hard (i)	Julian Knowle	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	2–6, 3–6
16.	16 August 2008	Summer Olympics, Beijing	Hard	Thomas Johansson	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	4–6, 3–6, 7–6, 3–6
17.	11 April 2009	Casablanca	Clay	Paul Hanley	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	6–7(4), 6–3, [6-10]
18.	17 May 2009	Madrid	Clay	Wesley Moodie	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	4–6, 4–6
19.	25 October 2009	Stockholm	Hard (i)	Paul Hanley	Bruno Soares Kevin Ullyett	4–6, 6–7(4)

[edit] Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	A	3R	1R	2R	2R	2R	3R	QF	2R	1R	1R	0 / 10
French Open	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R	2R	3R	3R	3R	0 / 10
Wimbledon	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	2R	QF	1R	QF	1R	1R	QF	0 / 10
U.S. Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	3R	QF	2R	W	2R	1R	1 / 10
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	1 / 40
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	1R	SF	1R	1R	1R	0 / 7
Miami	A	A	A	2R	2R	2R	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	QF	1R	0 / 9
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	2R	QF	SF	QF	2R	0 / 7
Rome	A	A	A	QF	2R	2R	A	A	2R	QF	2R	2R	1R	0 / 8
Madrid (Stuttgart)	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	QF	QF	F	0 / 5
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	2R	2R	1R	0 / 5
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	QF	QF	QF	A	0 / 4
Shanghai	Not Held												2R	0 / 1
Paris	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	SF	QF	QF	0 / 5
Hamburg	A	A	A	1R	QF	1R	A	A	1R	QF	SF	QF	NM1	0 / 7
Masters Series SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 5	0 / 0	0 / 2	0 / 9	0 / 9	0 / 9	0 / 9	0 / 8	0 / 58
Year End Ranking	355	322	111	51	50	55	40	45	17	19	8	22	23	N/A

[edit] External links and sources

Simon Aspelin at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Simon Aspelin at Davis Cup

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