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Jonas Bjorkman (1972)

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.

Jonas Bjokman is a right-handed tennis player. He was born on March 23, 1972 in Vaxjo, Sweden. He is now residing in Carlo, Monaco. He had a height 6 feet with a weight of 183 pounds.

In his doubles career titles, he had won first career Challenger doubles title in Tampere in the 1992. In 1993 he won three Challenger singles titles. In 1994 he had advanced to first singles semifinal in Schenectady. In doubles he had won a career-high of seven titles, including ATP, Association of Tennis Professionals World Doubles Championship in Jakarta and had finished as fifth team. He had won two titles and reached three other finals and helped the Sweden team to Davis Cup final with a 2-2 record in doubles. In 1997, the first ranking player of the Sweden team became ninth different player from his country to finish in top ten at rank four with his career-best 71-26 record. He had won three titles at Auckland, Indianapolis and Stockholm and had reached the final in two other Coral Springs and the ATP Masters Series Paris.

In 2000 he finished in the top 50 for fifth time in seven years. He played well on the grass with semifinal in Nottingham in the fourth round at Wimbledon and the quarterfinal in Newport. He had finished the year with 12-6 mark reaching the quarterfinal in Shanghai and Moscow. He also reached the semifinals in St. Petersburg and the quarterfinals in Stockholm. In 2001, he had finished first in the ATP Doubles Race and individual doubles rankings for first time, winning four titles. He had the best singles result in the semifinal in Sydney. In the doubles games he had posted a 47-16 record including 42-11. Jonas Bjokman was a player who had exactitude to start with and was able to put a ball on the dime and had confidence in his play.

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