Emil Börje Fornstedt (4 February 1926 – 22 September 2015) was a Swedish tennis player.
Tennis career
In 1948 Fornstedt won the Scandinavian singles championships held in
Copenhagen
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beating
Kurt Nielsen
Kurt Nielsen (19 November 1930 – 11 June 2011) was a Danish tennis player. He was born in Copenhagen, and was the first Danish tennis player ever to have played in a men's singles final in a Grand Slam tournament.
Nielsen reached the single ...
, 1–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–2 in the final and he also won the doubles, with
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 rea ...
.
During July 1948 he represented
Sweden
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in the
Davis Cup Europe Zone final against
Czechoslovakia
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In September 1949 he won the Aachen Invitational Tournament in Germany, beating Ernst Buchholz in the final and in October 1949 he won the first Israeli International Championships, with a victory over Yehuda Finkelkraut in the final.
Fornstedt participated in two
Grand Slam
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events, the
1948 Wimbledon Championships
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and the
1952 French Open.
He together with Sven Davidson, among others, were also the founders of the
Stockholm Open
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, that was founded in 1969.
See also
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List of Sweden Davis Cup team representatives
References
External links
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1926 births
2015 deaths
Swedish male tennis players
People from Ovanåker Municipality
Sportspeople from Gävleborg County