Staffan Oscar Stockenberg (14 September 1931 – 20 May 2019) was a Swedish
tennis
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player.
Tennis career
As a junior, Stockenberg achieved significant successes and won two consecutive junior singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships, in
1948
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and
1949
Events
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. He also won the Swedish Junior Championship title five times from 1945 to 1949.
Stockenberg's first tournament victory was at the North of England Hardcourts event in
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when he beat the Polish player
Czeslaw Spychala 6–4, 6–4 in the final.
Stockenberg represented Sweden on two occasions in the Davis Cup. In 1953, he together with
Lennart Bergelin and
Sven Davidson
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met Italy in the European quarterfinal tie and in 1955,
Torsten Johansson joined the Swedish team for European final in Milan, once again against Italy. Stockenberg played one match in each of these ties and lost both, in 1953 against
Giuseppe Merlo and in 1955 against
Fausto Gardini.
Junior Grand Slam titles
Singles: 2 (2 titles)
See also
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List of Sweden Davis Cup team representatives
References
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1931 births
2019 deaths
Swedish male tennis players
Wimbledon junior champions
People from Sundbyberg Municipality
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Tennis players from Stockholm County
20th-century Swedish sportsmen