Magnus Nils Gustafsson (born 3 January 1967) is a tennis coach and former top ten professional
tennis player
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from
Sweden. Gustafsson won 14 tour singles titles during his career and finished 15 consecutive seasons within the world's top 100, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 in 1991. He was instrumental in
Sweden capturing the
Davis Cup in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
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, winning both his singles rubbers in the final in straight sets.
His best performance at a
Grand Slam
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event came at the
Australian Open in
1994
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, where he reached the quarterfinals. During his career, he beat several top five players including
Ivan Lendl
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,
Michael Stich
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,
Goran Ivanisevic,
Andre Agassi
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Agassi is the second of five men to ac ...
and
Michael Chang
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.
Career finals
Singles: 26 (14–12)
Doubles: 8 (1–7)
Singles performance timeline
References
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Sportspeople from Lund
Swedish male tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Sweden
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1967 births
Ferris State University alumni
Living people
Sportspeople from Gothenburg