Peter Lundgren

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Peter Lundgren
Country Flag of Sweden Sweden
Residence Hunnebostrand and Monte Carlo
Date of birth May 1, 1965 (1965-29-01) (age 42)
Place of birth Gudmundra, Sweden
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 100 kg (190 lbs.)
Turned pro 1983
Plays Right-handed; double-handed backhand
Career prize money $1,130,516
Singles
Career record: 119-136
Career titles: 3
Highest ranking: 25 (December 16, 1985)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open 2nd (1988,1991)
French Open 2nd (1991)
Wimbledon 4th (1989)
US Open 2nd (1985, 1987, 1989-90)
Doubles
Career record: 100-134
Career titles: 3
Highest ranking: 27 (November 26, 1990)

Infobox last updated on: May 29,2008.


Peter Lundgren (born January 29, 1965) in Gudmundra, Sweden) is a former professional tennis playermale tennis player and tennis coach from Sweden. He was a right hander with a double handed backhand who preferred playing indoors, hardcourt and on grass to clay.

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[edit] Playing Career

Lundgren was one of the second generation of Swedish players along with Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Joakim Nyström, Anders Järryd, Henrik Sundström, Hans Simonsson and Kent Carlsson that followed after the success of Björn Borg. He left Sundsvall as an 18 year old and moved to Stockholm [1], to further his tennis career.

In 1984 Lundgren finished the year ranked at 274 [2]. At the end of the 1985 season Lundgren jumped up 249 places on ranking list to finish at number 27. [3] In the process he won his first title in Cologne as a qualifier defeating Wojtek Fibak, Goran Prpic, Jeremy Bates, Tim Wilkinson before defeating Ramesh Krishnan in the final. [4]. After the title win he was hailed as "the new Björn Borg", in reference to his talent and the long hair that bore resemblance to Borg and that he had trained with him as well [5]. Lundgren's best ranking was 23rd in the world, but at the time he was the only 7th best Swede behind Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Anders Järryd, Joakim Nyström, Henrik Sundström and Jan Gunarsson, [6].


This was the golden age of Swedish tennis in which Lundgren said "We had at most 14 players in the top 100. ( Don’t forget the size of the Swedish population, it makes it even better this achievement)". [7] Lundgren while managing to have some big wins over Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Thomas Muster and Pete Sampras, was not able to achieve consistency and he said himself that "I was a little up and down. Sometimes I could lose motivation and then suddenly get thrashed against lower ranked players.” [8] He played his last match on tour against Karol Kucera in Copenhagen and retired at 30 years of age and then went into coaching. [9]


[edit] Coaching

Lundgren first made a name for himself as a coach when he took Marcelo Rios into the top 10 and then they split ways, when Lundgren said that "he needed a psychologist more than a coach" [10]. After that he was working for the Swiss Tennis Federation helping out with the juniors, he replaced Peter Carter as coach for Roger Federer they worked together from 2000 to end of 2003, then they went split.

Lundgren then took over coaching Marat Safin and guided him to the 2005 Australian Open championship and worked with him until August 2006. In September 2006, it was announced that he would be helping out the British Davis Cup team for the next two years.

He was given a "leave of absence" from the LTA in June 2007. [3]. In 2008 Lundgren took some time away from his job, because his father was ill, but now wants to return back to work with British tennis. [11].

[edit] Singles titles (3)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (3)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. 1985 Cologne, GER Indoor Hard Flag of India Ramesh Krishnan 6-3 6-2
2. 1987 New York, USA Clay Flag of the United States John Ross (tennis) John Ross 6-7 7-5 6-3
3. 1987 San Francisco Carpet Flag of the United States Jim Pugh 7–6, 6–1


[edit] Singles finalist (3)


[edit] Doubles titles (3)

No. Date Tournament Surface Partnering Opponent in the final Score
1. 1986 Tel Aviv, Israel Hard Flag of the United States John Letts Flag of South Africa Cristo Steyn
Flag of South Africa Dannie Visser		 6-3 3-6 6-3
2. 1988 Rhode Island, USA Grass Flag of the United States Kelly Jones Flag of the Czech Republic Scott Davis
Flag of the United States Dan Goldie		 6-3 7-6
3. 1990 Sydney Indoor, Australia Hard Flag of Australia Brod Dyke Flag of Sweden Stefan Edberg
Flag of the United States Ivan Lendl		 6-2 6-4





Preceded by
Mikael Pernfors		 ATP Most Improved Player
1987		 Succeeded by
Andre Agassi

[edit] References

  1. ^ "(Swedish) Historik", Sundsvall TK, 2008-05-29. 
  2. ^ "1984 Year End Ranking", Stevegtennis, 2008-05-29. 
  3. ^ a b "1985 Year End Ranking", Stevegtennis, 2008-05-29. 
  4. ^ "Cologne Victory", ITF, 2008-05-29. 
  5. ^ "(Swedish) I Paris ska Grand Slam-samlingen bli komplett", Aftonbladet, 2008-05-29. 
  6. ^ Source: [1]
  7. ^ "Peter Lundgren Profile", Tennisfest Sweden, 2008-05-29. 
  8. ^ Source: [2]
  9. ^ Source: [3]
  10. ^ Source: [4]
  11. ^ "Lundgren wants quick return", Eurosport, 2008-05-29. 
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