Mats wilander net worth
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TENNIS PLAYERS from Sweden
The Most Famous
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,569 Tennis Players, 36 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 10th most number of Tennis Players behind Spain, and Argentina.
Top 10
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Swedish Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Swedish Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Swedish Tennis Players.
1. Björn Borg (b. 1956)
With an HPI of 72.93, Björn Borg is the most famous Swedish Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 74 different languages on wikipedia.
Björn Rune Borg (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbjœːɳ ˈbɔrj] ; born 6 June 1956) 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 109 week
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Mats Wilander
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In 2022, I’m counting down the 128 best players of the last century. With luck, we’ll get to #1 in December. Enjoy!
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Mats Wilander [SWE]Born: 22 August 1964
Career: 1981-96
Plays: Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Peak rank: 1 (1988)
Peak Elo rating: 2,309 (1st place, 1983)
Major singles titles: 7
Total singles titles: 33
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Mats Wilander played some of the longest matches in tennis history. Those epics, especially the ones against Ivan Lendl, featured grueling baseline rallies that often spanned several dozen strokes or more. In the 1982 French Open final against Guillermo Vilas, a single point lasted 90 shots.
“Tennis to be respected,” said one spectator in Paris. Not necessarily enjoyed. Vitas Gerulaitis, one of Wilander’s victims that week, called him the “Ball-Wall from Sweden.”
Despite relying on a brand of tennis that Sports Illustrated once called “patty-cake,” Mats considered himself an aggressive player, even more so than the famous net-rushers of his era:
I’ve always believed that I
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