Matti Timonen (born 10 October 1953) is a Finnish former professional
tennis
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player.
Timonen won 24 national championships, including three outdoor and five indoor singles titles. On the professional tour, he was ranked as high as 257 in the world and had a second round appearance at the
1975 New Zealand Open, where he lost in five sets to the fourth-seeded
Syd Ball. He played for the
Finland Davis Cup team from 1972 to 1982, featuring in 35 rubbers. In 1980 he won a singles rubber over France's
Pascal Portes.
See also
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List of Finland Davis Cup team representatives
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1953 births
Living people
Finnish male tennis players
20th-century Finnish sportsmen