Staffan Oscar Stockenberg (14 September 1931 – 20 May 2019) was a Swedish
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.
Tennis career
As a junior, Stockenberg achieved significant successes and won two consecutive junior singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships, in
1948
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** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
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and
1949
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* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
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. He also won the Swedish Junior Championship title five times from 1945 to 1949.
Stockenberg's first tournament victory was at the North of England Hardcourts event in
Scarborough when he beat the Polish player,
Czeslaw Spychala, 6–4, 6–4 in the final.
Stockenberg represented Sweden on two occasions in the Davis Cup. In 1953, he together with
Lennart Bergelin and
Sven Davidson
Sven Viktor Davidson (13 July 1928 – 28 May 2008) was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957, beating Ashley Cooper and Herbert Flam.
Career
Davidson also ...
met Italy in the European quarterfinal tie and in 1955,
Torsten Johansson joined the Swedish team for European final in Milan, once again against Italy. Stockenberg played one match in each of these ties and lost both, in 1953 against
Giuseppe Merlo and in 1955 against
Fausto Gardini.
Junior Grand Slam titles
Singles: 2 (2 titles)
See also
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List of Sweden Davis Cup team representatives
References
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1931 births
2019 deaths
Swedish male tennis players
Wimbledon junior champions
People from Sundbyberg Municipality
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Sportspeople from Stockholm County