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Also known as Mats Arne Olof Wilander

Swedish tennis player

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Mats Wilander is a Swedish tennis player who achieved success at the professional level. Without additional context about his specific accomplishments or career achievements, I cannot provide details on why he matters in tennis history.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1964
Works
1

Top works

  • Mats Wilander och spelet bakom rubrikerna

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Växjö, Kronobergs län, Sweden

Known for

  • Nasty — Self - Winner of 7 Grand Slam Singles Titles2024
  • Roland Garros - 40 ans d'exploits — (Archive)2024
  • Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker — Self2023
  • Roland-Garros: Building the Legend — Self2021
  • Open Access — Self2004

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
128
Total plays
421

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mats+Wilander">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Mats Wilander

Sports profile

Sport
Tennis
Team
_Retired Tennis
Position
Tennis Player
Nationality
Sweden

via TheSportsDB

~17 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Mats Arne Olof Wilander ( Swedish: [ˈmats vɪˈlǎnːdɛr]; born 22 August 1964) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 20 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 1988. Wilander won 33 career singles titles, including seven majors (three each at the French Open and Australian Open, and one at the US Open), and seven career doubles titles, including a major in men's doubles at Wimbledon.

Wilander's breakthrough came suddenly and unexpectedly when he won the 1982 French Open at the age of 17. Wilander won his fourth major singles title at the age of 20, the youngest man in history to have achieved the feat. In 1988, he won three of the four singles majors to finish the year ranked as the world No. 1. Wilander also won eight Grand Prix Super Series titles (1983–88), the precursors to the current ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. He was also a driving force behind Sweden's run of seven consecutive Davis Cup finals from 1983 to 1989, and three titles in 1984, 1985, and 1987. Wilander is one of seven men to have won major singles titles on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts since the feat became achievable in 1978 (when the US Open was first played on hard courts). Wilander, Nadal, Djokovic and Alcaraz are the only men to have won at least two major singles titles on each of the three surfaces. Wilander retired from the sport in 1996.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mats Wilander” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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