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	Olympic medal record
Competitor for Sweden
Men's Tennis

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Country	Sweden
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Date of birth	24 March 1975 (age 34)
Place of birth	Linköping, Sweden
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Turned pro	1993
Retired	June 12, 2009
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$7,168,029
Singles
Career record	357–296
Career titles	9
Highest ranking	No. 7 (10 May 2002)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	W (2002)
French Open	2R (1996, 2000, 2002, 2005)
Wimbledon	SF (2005)
US Open	QF (1998, 2000)
Doubles
Career record	76–98
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 51 (17 July 2006)
	Last updated on: June 21, 2009.

For other persons of the same name, see Tomas Johansson.

Karl Thomas Conny Johansson (born 24 March, 1975, in Linköping, Sweden), commonly known as Thomas Johansson, is a former Swedish professional tennis player. He is a former Australian Open singles champion and Olympic silver medalist in doubles.

1 Career
- 1.1 Junior career
- 1.2 Senior career
2 Personal
3 Major finals
- 3.1 Grand Slam finals
  - 3.1.1 Singles: 1 (1-0)
- 3.2 ATP Masters Series finals
  - 3.2.1 Singles: 1 (1-0)
4 Career finals
- 4.1 Singles: 14 (9-5)
- 4.2 Doubles: 2 (1-1)
5 Singles performance timeline
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Junior career

Johansson began to play tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (w/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 1993 world junior rankings.

[edit] Senior career

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 long and fruitful career of sixteen years.

[edit] Personal

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 DeNiro. 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 December 3rd 2005.

[edit] Major finals

[edit] Grand Slam finals

[edit] Singles: 1 (1-0)

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

[edit] ATP Masters Series finals

[edit] Singles: 1 (1-0)

Wins (1)

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

[edit] Career finals

[edit] Singles: 14 (9-5)

Wins (9)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (1)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (1)
ATP Tour (7)

Titles by surface
Hard (4)
Grass (2)
Clay (0)
Carpet (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	10 March 1997	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Martin Damm	6–4 3–6 6–2
2.	17 March 1997	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Renzo Furlan	6–3 6–4
3.	2 August 1999	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1–6 6–3 6–3
4.	20 November 2000	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–2 6–4 6–4
5.	11 June 2001	Halle, Germany	Grass	Fabrice Santoro	6–3 6–7(5) 6–2
6.	18 June 2001	Nottingham, UK	Grass	Harel Levy	7–5 6–3
7.	14 January 2002	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Marat Safin	3–6 6–4 6–4 7–6(4)
8.	25 October 2004	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Andre Agassi	3–6 6–3 7–6(4)
9.	24 October 2005	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Kiefer	6–4 6–2

Runner-ups (5)

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (5)

Titles by surface
Hard (2)
Grass (1)
Clay (0)
Carpet (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	2 March 1998	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	6–7(2) 2–6
2.	9 November 1998	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Todd Martin	3–6 4–6 4–6
3.	14 June 2004	Nottingham, UK	Grass	Paradorn Srichaphan	6–1 6–7(4) 3–6
4.	23 October 2006	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Mario Ančić	5–7 6–7
5.	8 October 2007	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Ivo Karlović	3–6 6–3 1–6

[edit] Doubles: 2 (1-1)

Wins (1)

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (1)

Titles by surface
Hard (0)
Grass (0)
Clay (3)
Carpet (0)

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)

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
Olympics Silver (1)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)

Titles by surface
Hard (2)
Grass (0)
Clay (0)
Carpet (0)

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(4), 3–6

[edit] Singles performance timeline

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.

Tournament	Career	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993
Australian Open	1	A	1R	2R	4R	4R	1R	A	W	3R	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	A	1R	A
French Open	0	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	A	A	2R	1R	2R	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	A
Wimbledon	0	A	2R	1R	1R	SF	3R	A	1R	2R	4R	2R	3R	2R	4R	A	A	A
US Open	0	A	1R	3R	1R	2r	3R	A	A	4R	QF	A	QF	1R	2R	A	A	A
Grand Slam Win-Loss	59–45	0-0	1-4	3–4	3–4	10-4	4–3	0–0	8–2	6–4	9–4	1–2	6–4	2–4	6–4	0–1	0–1	0–0
Tennis Masters Cup	0	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	RR	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
Finals reached	14	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	1	2	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0
ATP Tournaments Won	9	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Hardcourt Win-Loss	207–157	0–0	10–11	19–14	9–8	19–14	19–13	0–0	17–12	26–16	17–17	16–13	27–14	15–13	13–10	0–1	0–1	0–0
Clay Win-Loss	37-68	0–0	3–6	4–5	1–6	8–6	1–2	0–0	7–7	4–5	1–5	1–7	2–6	1–6	4–5	0–1	0–1	0–0
Grass Win-Loss	47-30	0–0	3–3	0–3	0–3	12-3	6–3	0–0	2–2	11-1	3–3	1–1	4–3	1–3	4–2	0–0	0–0	0–0
Carpet Win-Loss	68-39	1–1	0–0	4–2	1–1	9–2	3–3	0–0	3–3	5–3	1–1	4–4	12-8	15-5	7–4	1–1	0–0	2–1
Overall Win-Loss	357–296	1–1	16–20	27–24	11–18	48–25	29–21	0–0	29–24	46–25	22–26	22–25	45–31	32–27	28–21	1–3	0–2	2–1
Year End Ranking	N/A		136	62	71	14	30	N/A	14	18	39	43	17	39	60	117	486	422

Green background for wins. Yellow background from quarter finals up to finals.

[edit] See also

List of Grand Slam Men's Singles champions

[edit] External links

Contents

[edit] Career

[edit] Junior career

[edit] Senior career

[edit] Personal

[edit] Major finals

[edit] Grand Slam finals

[edit] Singles: 1 (1-0)

[edit] ATP Masters Series finals

[edit] Singles: 1 (1-0)

[edit] Career finals

[edit] Singles: 14 (9-5)

[edit] Doubles: 2 (1-1)

[edit] Singles performance timeline

[edit] See also

[edit] External links