Sven Hans Fredrik "Fidde" Rosengren (born 31 January 1960) is a Swedish professional

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coach.

Biography

Rosengren began his coaching career in 1988 as the coach of

Jan Gunnarsson Jan Gunnarsson (; born 30 May 1962) is a former tennis player from Sweden, who won one singles title in Vienna in 1985 (beating Libor Pimek in the final) and nine doubles titles on the world tour during his professional career. In 1989 he reach ...

and in 1989 Gunnarsson reached the semifinals of the

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. His coaching time with Gunnarsson lasted until 1992, but in 1990 he also started working with

Jonas Björkman Jonas Lars Björkman (; born 23 March 1972) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 in doubles, and also a former world No. 4 in singles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 ...

. During the time he coached Björkman, Björkman reached the 4th position on the

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in singles as well as 3rd on the doubles rankings. Björkman won 15 doubles titles during the period, six of which were with

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, for whom Rosengren also started coaching in 1994. In 1999, Rosengren started coaching

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and helped him reach the final of the

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in 2000 and also to reach the top ten on the ATP ranking, with a career high of no. 2 in June 2000. In the period with Norman, that stretched from 1999 to 2003, Norman won ten singles titles. After Norman, Rosengren coached

Joachim Johansson Joachim Johansson (born 1 July 1982) is a former professional male tennis player from Sweden. He reached the semifinals of the 2004 US Open, won 3 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 9 in February 2005. Backg ...

and

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, among others, who both made it to the top ten in the ATP ranking, during their time with him. Johansson reached the 9th ranking position during February 2005 and Ančić reached no. 7 in July 2006. Between 2013 and 2017, Rosengren was Sweden's Davis Cup captain and also work with some of the young Swedish players. In 2017 he worked with

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and at the end of 2017 he was appointed as the coach of the British player,

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, who reached the semifinal of the Australian Open in early 2018. At the end of the 2019 season, Rosengren started working with Russian player

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosengren, Fredrik 1960 births Living people Swedish tennis coaches Sportspeople from Växjö