Peter Lundgren

Infobox Tennis player
playername= Peter Lundgren


country= SWE
residence= Hunnebostrand and Monte Carlo
datebirth= birth date and age|1965|29|1
placebirth= Gudmundra, Sweden
height= height|m=1.85
weight= 100 kg (190 lb)|turnedpro= 1983
plays= Right-handed; double-handed backhand
careerprizemoney= $1,130,516
singlesrecord= 119–136
singlestitles= 3
highestsinglesranking= 25 (December 16, 1985)
AustralianOpenresult= 2nd (1988,1991)
FrenchOpenresult= 2nd (1991)
Wimbledonresult= 4th (1989)
USOpenresult= 2nd (1985, 1987, 1989–90)
doublesrecord= 100–134
doublestitles= 3
highestdoublesranking= 27 (November 26, 1990)
updated =May 29,2008

Peter Lundgren (born January 29, 1965) in Gudmundra, Sweden) is a former professional male tennis player and tennis coach from Sweden. He was a right hander with a double handed backhand who preferred playing indoors, hardcourt and on grass to clay.

Playing career

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. He left Sundsvall as an 18 year old and moved to Stockholm cite news
title = Historik
url = http://www.sundsvallstk.se/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=25 (Swedish)
publisher = Sundsvall TK
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] , to further his tennis career.

In 1984 Lundgren finished the year ranked at 274 cite news
title = 1984 Year End Ranking
url = http://stevegtennis.com/rankings/yearend/s1984.txt
publisher = Stevegtennis
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] . At the end of the 1985 season Lundgren jumped up 249 places on ranking list to finish at number 27. cite news
title = 1985 Year End Ranking
url = http://stevegtennis.com/rankings/yearend/s1985.txt
publisher = Stevegtennis
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] In the process he won his first title in Cologne as a qualifier defeating Wojtek Fibak, Goran Prpic, Jeremy Bates, Tim Wilkinson before defeating Ramesh Krishnan in the final. cite news
title = Cologne Victory
url = http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/activity.asp?player=10000833
publisher = ITF
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] . After the title win he was hailed as "the new Björn Borg", in reference to his talent and the long hair that bore resemblance to Borg and that he had trained with him as well cite news
title = I Paris ska Grand Slam-samlingen bli komplett
url = http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/tennis/article289911.ab (Swedish)
publisher = Aftonbladet
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] . Lundgren's best ranking was 23rd in the world, but at the time he was the only 7th best Swede behind Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Anders Järryd, Joakim Nyström, Henrik Sundström and Jan Gunarsson.

This was the golden age of Swedish tennis in which Lundgren said "We had at most 14 players in the top 100. ( Don’t forget the size of the Swedish population, it makes it even better this achievement)". cite news
title = Peter Lundgren Profile
url = http://guyfromrussia.proboards48.com/index.cgi?board=pressarticles&action=display&thread=961
publisher = Tennisfest Sweden
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] Lundgren while managing to have some big wins over Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Thomas Muster and Pete Sampras, was not able to achieve consistency and he said himself that "I was a little up and down. Sometimes I could lose motivation and then suddenly get thrashed against lower ranked players.” He played his last match on tour against Karol Kucera in Copenhagen and retired at 30 years of age and then went into coaching.

Coaching

Lundgren first made a name for himself as a coach when he took Marcelo Rios into the top 10 and then they split ways, when Lundgren said that "he needed a psychologist more than a coach" . After that he was working for the Swiss Tennis Federation helping out with the juniors, he replaced Peter Carter as coach for Roger Federer they worked together from 2000 to end of 2003, then they went split.

Lundgren then took over coaching Marat Safin and guided him to the 2005 Australian Open championship and worked with him untilAugust 2006. In September 2006, it was announced that he would be helping out the British Davis Cup team for the next two years.

He was given a "leave of absence" from the LTA in June 2007. cite news
title = GB coach given a leave of absence
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6242902.stm
publisher = BBC
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] . In 2008 Lundgren took some time away from his job, because his father was ill, though he later expressed interest to return back to work with British tennis. cite news
title = Lundgren wants quick return
url = http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/12052008/58/atp-tour-lundgren-wants-quick-return-gb-exit.html
publisher = Eurosport
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate =] . During 2008 he started coaching the Cypriot tennis player Marcos Baghdatis.

ingles titles (3)

References

External links

* [http://www.informationtennis.com/#/lplayercoaches/4529731472 Peter Lundgren] profile on [http://www.informationtennis.com Information Tennis]