Michael Mortensen (born 12 March 1961) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Denmark.
Mortensen achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 34 in 1988 and a career-high singles ranking of world No. 301 in 1984. He won five
ATP doubles titles.
Mortensen participated in 22
Davis Cup
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ties for
Denmark
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from 1979 to 1990, posting an 11–13 record in doubles and a 12–14 record in singles.
Mortensen later became a coach. He was the captain of the
Denmark Fed Cup team
The Denmark Billie Jean King Cup team represents Denmark in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Dansk Tennis Forbund. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II. They rank 53rd in the world wit ...
in 2011 competing for
2011 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2011 Fed Cup.
Group I
*Venue: Municipal Tennis Club, Eilat, Israel (hard, outdoors)
*Date: 2–5 February
The fifteen teams were divided into three pools of four team ...
Group I.
Among players he coached was the
WTA top-5 player and Chinese No. 1
Li Na
Li Na (born 26 February 1982) is a Chinese former professional tennis player.
She achieved a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 2 on 17 February 2014. Over the course of her career, Li won nine WTA Tour singles titles including two Grand Sl ...
, who won the
2011 French Open Women's Singles title under Mortensen.
Career finals
Doubles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner-ups)
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1961 births
Danish male tennis players
People from Glostrup Municipality
Danish tennis coaches
Living people
Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark