Top 8 Swedish tennis players of all time

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Sweden's most celebrated tennis athlete - Bjorn Borg
Sweden's most celebrated tennis athlete - Bjorn Borg

#3 Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander at the French Open Tennis Championship
Mats Wilander at the French Open Tennis Championship

Mats Wilander is one of only four men in the history of tennis to have won a Grand Slam tournament on four different surfaces. Although he never won Wimbledon, Wilander won the Australian Open during the time when the tournament was played on grass.

A gifted teenager, Wilander peaked very early in his career, winning a total of four Grand Slam titles before turning 20 - an all-time record which still stands. Apart from seven Grand Slam singles titles, Wilander also won 8 Grand Prix Super Series titles - the precursor to the modern ATP Masters 1000 tournaments.

Wilander was one of the last Swedish players to be ranked World Number 1, before Stefan Edbergand he played a key role in Sweden's run to the Davis Cup final on seven different occasions through the 1980s.

In his 15-year career, Wilander accrued just under 8 million USD in prize money. He was inducted into the International tennis Hall of Fame in 2002.

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