Lars-Anders Wahlgren (born 24 August 1966) is a former professional
tennis
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player from
Sweden.
Career
Wahlgren was a top 100 player in both the singles and doubles.
He won his first
Grand Slam
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match at the
1987 French Open
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, beating
Guy Forget
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.
In 1989 he had his best singles performance in an
ATP Tour
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event, reaching the final of the
Australian Indoor Championships. He defeated defending champion
Slobodan Živojinović
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Together with Nenad Zimonjić, he is the only tennis playe ...
en route to the final, where he lost to
Ivan Lendl
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.
He reached the quarter-finals of
Wellington
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's
BP National Championship – Singles in 1990 and also made the third round of the Men's Singles at the
Australian Open that year.
Wahlgren upset 15th
Marc Rosset
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in the opening round of the
1991 Australian Open but didn't progress any further. He won the match 9–7 in the fifth set.
The following year he equaled his effort from 1990, again reaching third round in Australia. On this occasion he beat world number 20
Brad Gilbert and 12th seed
Derrick Rostagno.
Wahlgren was a quarter-finalist at the 1992 Brisbane Indoor Championships. Over the next two years, he twice finished runner-up in doubles at the
Kuala Lumpur Open.
The further he got in the Men's Doubles at a Grand Slam was at the
1995 Australian Open, when he and partner
Ola Kristiansson made it into the third round, defeating sixth seeds
David Adams and
Andrei Olhovskiy
Andrei Stanislavovich Olhovskiy (russian: Андре́й Станисла́вович Ольхо́вский; ; born 15 April 1966) is a former tennis player from Russia, who turned professional in 1989.
Career
Olhovskiy represented the Sovie ...
along the way.
ATP World Tour Profile
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Grand Prix/ATP career finals
Singles: 1 (0–1)
Doubles: 2 (0–2)
Challenger titles
Singles: (1)
Doubles: (12)
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
Swedish male tennis players
Sportspeople from Lund