Jörgen Windahl (born 12 March 1963) is a former professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
player from
Sweden.
Career
Windahl was the Boys' Singles Champion at the
1981 Australian Open
The 1981 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 70th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 30 November through 6 December 1981 f ...
, the first Swede to win the junior title. He defeated
Pat Cash
Patrick Hart Cash (born 27 May 1965) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4 in May 1988 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6 in August 1988. Upon winning t ...
in the final. In
Wimbledon later that year, he played in both the men's doubles and singles, but wasn't able to make it past the first round in either. He lost to
Ángel Giménez in the singles and with his partner
Robert Booth was defeated in five set by
Scott McCain and
Steve Meister
Steve Meister (born April 21, 1958) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Meister's highest singles ranking was World No. 69, which he reached in August 1984. During his career, he won 6 doubles titles and achieved a ca ...
in the doubles.
As a singles player he reached the quarter-finals at
Metz
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in 1986 and was a semi-finalist in
Madrid
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the following year. He again competed at Wimbledon in 1987 but lost in the opening round to American qualifier
Ken Flach
Kenneth Eliot Flach (May 24, 1963 – March 12, 2018) was an American doubles world No. 1 tennis player. He won four Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Wimbledon and two US Open), and two mixed doubles titles (Wimbledon and the French Open ...
.
He was more successful on the doubles circuit, winning his first career title in the
1986 Geneva Open. The Swede was also a doubles finalist at
Bologna
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in 1989 and doubles semi-finals at both Boston and
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
in 1986 and again in the 1989
Madrid Tennis Grand Prix.
ATP World Tour Profile
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Grand Prix career finals
Doubles: 2 (1–1)
Challenger titles
Singles: (2)
Doubles: (5)
References
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1963 births
Living people
Swedish male tennis players
Australian Open (tennis) junior champions
People from Danderyd Municipality
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Sportspeople from Stockholm County