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* Edberg also played on four Swedish Davis Cup winning teams in 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1994.
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He also won his final tour match against Edberg, in the second round of the Canadian Open in Montreal.
The same year he also won season ending WCT Finals for the rival World Championship Tennis tour defeating Edberg in four sets.
Edberg also won the tennis tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics when the sport was an exhibition event and partnered with fellow Swede Anders Järryd to reach the final of the US Open.
Edberg also reached the French Open doubles final with Järryd in 1986 and consequently was World No. 1 in doubles in that year.
Edberg also won the Australian Open and US Open men's doubles titles in 1987 ( partnering fellow Swede Anders Järryd ).
Edberg also had an excellent volley, and could easily redirect powerfully struck balls to the open court.
Edberg is also the only player to achieve the ' Junior Grand Slam ' in history of the game.
* Edberg was also a member of the Swedish teams that won the World Team Cup in 1988, 1991, and 1995.
* Edberg was also a five-time recipient of the ATP Sportsmanship Award ( 1988 – 90, 1992, and 1995 ).
He also reached the 1993 Wimbledon final, defeating Edberg in the semifinals, and lost to Sampras in four sets.
Jim Courier and Stefan Edberg also used the Pro Staff Original, Edberg later switching to the Pro Staff Classic in 1991, which was the same racquet ( 85 sq.
He was also runner-up in a further 20 singles events, including Cincinnati in 1990 ( where he lost to future International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Stefan Edberg ) and the Paris Indoors in 1987 and 1988.
He also finished runner-up in the men's doubles at the US Open that year, partnering Stefan Edberg.
Järryd also won a men's doubles Bronze Medal at the Olympic Games that year, partnering Edberg.
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In January 2012, Edberg played a 1 set exhibition against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Doha, Qatar, and lost 7-5.
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During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.
In January, he won his third Australian Open singles title, this time on Melbourne Park's hardcourts, defeating Edberg in a five-set semifinal and home town favourite Cash in a five-set final.
In 1990, Becker met Edberg for the third consecutive year in the Wimbledon final, but this time was on the losing end of a long five-set match.
Edberg nevertheless took the World No. 1 ranking from Lendl on 13 August 1990 by winning the Super 9 tournament in Cincinnati.
Edberg was most comfortable playing tennis on fast-playing surfaces.
Edberg won his first tournament in Paris held on clay, winning matches against clay court specialists Thomas Muster in the opening round and Sergi Bruguera in the finals on Sunday, 21 September 2008.
In all these examples except the 1989 French Open final, Edberg went on to win the title.
In November 2009, Snow's common law wife and the subject of many of his songs, Tamei Edberg, was diagnosed with cancer ; she died three weeks later on November 27, 2009 at the age of 41.
Also beat Edberg ( Another former number 1 ) in money tournament in England on Grass.
( Commenting on his fellow semi-finalists, he told the press: " It's just like you all expected – Edberg, Lendl, McEnroe and Becker ".
While rarely referred to as grass court specialists, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Venus Williams, Jana Novotná, Andy Roddick, Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt have all had their best results on grass.
Gilbert's most successful year on the tour was 1989, during which he won five singles titles, including Cincinnati, where he beat four future Hall of Famers to claim the title: Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Boris Becker, and Stefan Edberg, as well as Agustín Moreno and Jason Stoltenberg.
While Perper initially rejected the appointment as unconstitutional, the State Supreme Court upheld Thornburgh's right to appoint Edberg, who duly took over the office of Coroner on March 2, 1981.
A left-hander, his serve-and-volley style is modelled on that of his idol, Stefan Edberg.
Two days after his death, on July 5 1991, in a Wimbledon semifinal, Stefan Edberg lost to Michael Stich 6-4, 6-7 < sup >( 5-7 )</ sup >, 6-7 < sup >( 5-7 )</ sup >, 6-7 < sup >( 2-7 )</ sup >.
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Becker was back in the Wimbledon final in 1988, where he lost in four sets to Stefan Edberg in a match that marked the start of one of Wimbledon's great rivalries.
* Edberg is one of the few players who reached the final of all four Grand Slam tournaments, winning three of them.
In 2005, he became the first Swedish player to reach the semifinals at Wimbledon since Stefan Edberg in 1993, losing to Andy Roddick in a tightly contested four set match, 7 – 6, 2 – 6, 6 – 7, 6 – 7.
Järryd won three of the four Grand Slam men's doubles titles in 1987, at the Australian Open ( partnering Edberg ), French Open ( partnering Robert Seguso ) and US Open ( partnering Edberg ).
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* November 12 – Nancy Edberg, Swedish pioneer in women swimming ( d. 1892 )
Alexandra and Dagmar were given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of women's swimming, Nancy Edberg.
Stefan Bengt Edberg ( born 19 January 1966 ) is a Swedish former World No. 1 professional tennis player ( in both singles and doubles ) from Sweden.
Edberg is a supporter of English football team Leeds United and the Swedish ice hockey team Växjö Lakers.
Johansson became the first Swedish player to win a Slam since Stefan Edberg won the 1992 U. S. Open title, and the first Swede to claim the Australian since Mats Wilander in 1988.
Lundgren was one of the second generation of Swedish players along with Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Joakim Nyström, Anders Järryd, Henrik Sundström, Hans Simonsson and Kent Carlsson that followed after the success of Björn Borg.
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