The Former tennis ace, Jonas Lars Bjorkman
The Swede professional tennis player, Jonas Lars Bjorkman was born on 23 March 1972, in the city of Alvesta. He is a former fourth ranked Swedish tennis ace as well as the top ranked doubles player. Bjorkman announced for the professional game of tennis after contesting at the Tennis Masters Cup Doubles tournament back in 2008.
Jonas superseded d**k Norman back in 2006 as the oldest tennis ace in the ATP top hundred when d**k slipped down from the top hundred lists on the last occasion. However, just two years later in 2008, Lars in the month of June was himself dropped out of the top hundred ATP list.
Bjorkman has experienced nice long lasted doubles partnerships with Nicklas Kulti, Kevin Ullyett, Jan Appel, Max Mirnyi, Jacco Eltingh, Todd Woodbridge as well as Patrick Rafter. He has triumphed in the career majors in men's doubles, grabbing a total of nine Grand Slam titles.
The right handed professional tennis ace turned pro back in 1991. The man succeeded in a total of three Challenger singles championship after two years in 1993. The 1.84 meters tall Bjorkman grabbed a total of seven trophies in doubles including the ATP Tour World tournament which was held in Jakarta. The very next year, the Swede tennis ace made his way into his very first ATP singles final match. Moving on the same lines, Lars kept on improving his game and registered his name as the ninth ever tennis player from his country to end in ATP top ten at number four in the world.
The man cruised to his very first major semi final match at the United States Open, however lost it eventually by Greg Rusedski in the end. Later, in the 1998 Australian Open championship, Bjorkman triumphed in his very first career doubles major championship. The twenty first century saw the Swede tennis player concluding in the singles top fifty tennis player on the very first occasion in a total of seven years.
As far as his ATP record is concerned, Bjorkman has grabbed a total of six singles trophies along with fifty four doubles titles, including a total of nine Grand Slam doubles crowns.
The right handed Bjorkman participated in his very first Davis Cup competition back in 1994 and has contested on regular basis for his country since then. He has registered a 21–14 record in doubles rubber where as a record of 14–9 record in singles. The man was also a member of his country’s Davis Cup tournament teams back in 1994, 97as well as 98.
The Swede tennis ace surprisingly reached in the semi final of the grass court Grand Slam tournament back in 2006 when he was thirty four years of age and thus registered his name as the oldest tennis player from the men’s side to have done it since Jimmy Connors back in 1987. The man had just reached in the singles quarter final stage on a single occasion back in 2003. In spite of the fact that the Swede tennis player was an unseeded contester, he managed to knock down Radek Stepanek who was a fourteenth seeded player
Jonas had previously knocked down Max Mirnyi who was his doubles partner as well as his compatriot fellow Thomas Johansson, to reach the quarter finals. In the semi final match, he met the top ranked tennis ace, Roger Federer who got the better of him with a final match score as 6–2, 6–0, and 6–2.
Jonas Lars Bjorkman announced his retirement from the professional game of tennis back in 2008. However, the player is still remembered for some exciting tennis exhibition on all sorts of surfaces for quite a period of time.
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