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Jonas Lars Björkman (born March 23 , 1972 , Växjö , Sweden ) is a Swedish professional male tennis player and former '''World No. 1''' in doubles. BIOGRAPHY The son of tennis coach and mailman Lars Björkman, Jonas began playing tennis at the age of six. At 18, he won the Swedish Junior Championship and was among the top 5 junior Swede players. He married Petra on December 2 , 2000 in Stockholm and has a son, Max (born January 15 , 2003 ). He plays righthanded and has a particularly good record against lefthanded players. He claims it´s because his father plays lefthanded. CAREER He turned professional in 1991 . In 1993 , he won three Challenger singles titles. In 1994 , he won seven titles in doubles including the ATP Tour World Doubles Championship in Jakarta . In 1995 , he reached his first career ATP singles final in Hong Kong . In 1997 , he became the 9th ever Swedish tennis player to finish in ATP top 10 at no. 4. He advanced to his first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open losing to Greg Rusedski . At the 1998 Australian Open , he won his first career doubles Grand Slam title. 2000 saw him finishing in the singles top 50 for the fifth time in 7 years. In his career he has won 6 singles titles and 46 titles in doubles, including 8 Grand Slam titles. TITLES (52) Singles(6), Doubles (46)
Singles finalist (4)
GRAND SLAM DOUBLES Titles (8)
Finals (2) EXTERNAL LINKS
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