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Joachim Johansson (1982)

Tennis is an outdoor sport, which can be played between two players or four players. Players use a stringed racquet to hit a rubber ball, hollow inside covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. In some places tennis is referred to as lawn tennis. This game started in England and was the most popular amongst the upper class of society.

Joachim Johansson was born on July 1, 1982 in Lund, Sweden now residing in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He has a height of 6 feet 6 inches with a weight of 198 pounds. He is right-handed player. He had played in his first ATP, Association of Tennis Professionals events in his home country in Bastad and Stockholm in the year 2000.

In the year 2001, he had captured first pro title at the Australia Futures ranking first in Queensland and reached the finals in Germany Futures ranking second and also in Austria Futures ranking second. In 2002, he had won the Futures titles at Poland ranking third, at Austria ranking fourth and also at Sweden ranking first. He had won his first ATP match in Stockholm over Portas before losing in the third-set tiebreak to Santoro. In 2003, he had improved ranking nearly 100 positions with the solid Challenger results with a record of 29-11. He had picked up his first Challenger title in Nottingham and had reached the finals at Groningen and the Eckental Challengers.

In 2004 he had finished as the first ranking player from his country for the first time in his career, jumping 101 ranking positions. He had captured his first ATP title in Memphis and had advanced to his first Grand Slam semifinal. He had advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon. He continued his success throughout the North American hard court circuit with the quarterfinal at AMS, Antigo Middle School, Toronto and Long Island and also the Grand Slam-best semifinal at the US Open where he had defeated the defending champion Roddick in the quarterfinal in around five sets before falling to Hewitt.

Joachim Johansson, with all his dedication and devotion in his play has achieved many goals in his overall tennis-playing career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.

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