Thomas Johansson

Juniors

Johansson began to play tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (with Magnus Norman). Even when he injured his right elbow while playing the Orange Bowl tennis championships 16s in 1991, he still reached the final, losing to Spain's Gonzalo Corrales. He finished No. 10 in the 1993 world junior rankings.

Professional career

That same year he joined the pro tour for the first time, and turned pro the following year. He has managed to win 9 top-level singles titles and 1 doubles title, including the 1999 Canada Masters, defeating world No. 4 Yevgeny Kafelnikov from a set down, and the 2002 Australian Open, which he unexpectedly won (while having never progressed beyond the quarterfinals of any of his 24 previous Grand Slams) after defeating Jacobo Díaz, Markus Hipfl, Younes El Aynaoui, Adrian Voinea, Jonas Björkman and Jiří Novák before defeating his heavily favored opponent in the final, Marat Safin, in four sets, again from a set down. Johansson became the first Swedish player to win a Slam since Stefan Edberg won the 1992 US Open title, and the first Swede to claim the Australian Open since his idol Mats Wilander in 1988.

A knee injury robbed Johansson of the latter half of the 2002 season and all of 2003, and Johansson was therefore unable to compete until the start of 2004. Many people weren't sure if Johansson will be able to compete again because of the seriousness of the injury. In 2005, he made a comeback to become the first Swedish player to reach the semifinals at Wimbledon since Edberg in 1993, and only dropped a set en route, losing to 2nd seed Andy Roddick in a tightly contested four set match that lasted a minute under 3 hours, 7–6^(8–6), 2–6, 6–7^(8–10), 6–7^(5–7). Near the end of the season, Johansson won his 9th, and until now, last ATP tour title in St. Petersburg, defeating Nicolas Kiefer in straight sets.

In 2006, the Swede struggled through the season after suffering an eye injury early in the season. The highlights of the season were a 4th round at the Australian Open (where he lost to Ivan Ljubičić), his first doubles title in Båstad, Sweden with countryman Jonas Björkman, and a final in St. Petersburg (lost to Mario Ančić), where he was the defending champion.

At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics he reached the doubles final with Simon Aspelin, where he lost against the Swiss team of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in 4 sets.

As of 6 March 2009, he has an 18–15 career Davis Cup record (17–12 in singles) in 17 ties, having played for Sweden every year other than 2003 (when he was out of action for the entire season) since 1998, and a 356–292 career overall.

He announced his retirement in June 2009 after a 16-year career.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2002	Australian Open	Hard	Marat Safin	3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)

ATP Masters Series finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1999	Canada Masters	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1–6, 6–3, 6–3

Doubles: 1 (1 Silver)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Silver	2008	Beijing Olympics	Hard	Simon Aspelin	Roger Federer Stan Wawrinka	3–6, 4–6, 7–6 (7–4) , 3–6

Singles: 14 (9 titles, 5 runner up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	10 March 1997	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Martin Damm	6–4, 3–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	17 March 1997	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Renzo Furlan	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	2 March 1998	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	6–7(2–7), 2–6
Runner-up	2.	9 November 1998	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Todd Martin	3–6, 4–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	2 August 1999	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner	4.	20 November 2000	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–2, 6–4, 6–4
Winner	5.	11 June 2001	Halle, Germany	Grass	Fabrice Santoro	6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–2
Winner	6.	18 June 2001	Nottingham, UK	Grass	Harel Levy	7–5, 6–3
Winner	7.	14 January 2002	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Marat Safin	3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	3.	14 June 2004	Nottingham, UK	Grass	Paradorn Srichaphan	6–1, 6–7(4–7), 3–6
Winner	8.	25 October 2004	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Andre Agassi	3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	9.	24 October 2005	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Kiefer	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	23 October 2006	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Mario Ančić	5–7, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	5.	8 October 2007	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Ivo Karlović	3–6, 6–3, 1–6

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	16 July 2006	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Jonas Björkman	Christopher Kas Oliver Marach	6–3, 4–6, [10–4]
Runner-up	1.	17 August 2008	Summer Olympics, China	Hard	Simon Aspelin	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	3–6, 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 3–6

Singles

Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics.