Tenny Svensson (born 21 September 1952) is a former professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player from Sweden.
''Biography''
Svensson played a 77-game opening round match against American
John Andrews at the
1975 Wimbledon Championships
The 1975 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 23 June until Saturday ...
, which he won 18–16 in the fifth set. The match went for 3 hours and 50 minutes. In his next match, against
Onny Parun
Onny Parun (born 15 April 1947) is a former tennis player of Croatian descent from New Zealand, who was among the world's top 20 for five years and who reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1971 and 1972. He made the final of the Australi ...
, he had to retire hurt in the second set. He made the quarter-finals in the men's doubles at the
1975 US Open, with
Armistead Neely. Also in 1975, Svensson had a win over
Björn Borg
Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimb ...
in a
WCT tournament in Stockholm.
In the
1978 Davis Cup
The 1978 Davis Cup was the 67th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 50 teams entered the competition, 29 in the Europe Zone, 10 in the Americas Zone, and 11 in the Eastern Zone.
The Uni ...
competition he represented the
Sweden team in three ties. This included the
Europe Zone final against Hungary, which Sweden won.
He won the
Scandinavian Indoor Championships
The Scandinavian Indoor Championships also known as the Scandinavian Covered Court Championships and the Scandinavian Indoor Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament held from 1936 through 1979.
History
The tournament was created ...
in 1979.
Now he works in a tennis hall, called SALK-hallen, and is a coach.
See also
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List of Sweden Davis Cup team representatives
References
External links
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1952 births
Living people
Swedish male tennis players