Peter Lundgren
Lundgren coaching Stanislas Wawrinka
Country (sports) Sweden
ResidenceHunnebostrand, Sweden
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Born (1965-01-29) 29 January 1965
Gudmundrå, Sweden
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro1983
Retired1995
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$1,130,516
Singles
Career record119–136
Career titles3
0 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest rankingNo. 25 (16 December 1987)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open2R (1988, 1991)
French Open2R (1991)
Wimbledon4R (1989)
US Open2R (1985, 1987, 1989, 1990)
Doubles
Career record100–134
Career titles3
1 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest rankingNo. 36 (26 November 1990)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenF (1988)
French Open3R (1992)
Wimbledon2R (1988, 1990)
US Open2R (1987
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open1R (1989)
Last updated on: 8 March 2023.

Peter Lundgren (born 29 January 1965) is a former professional male tennis player and tennis coach from Sweden. He 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,[1] to further his tennis career.

In 1984 Lundgren finished the year ranked at 265.[2] At the end of the 1985 season Lundgren jumped up 234 places on ranking list to finish at number 31.[2] In the process he won his first title in Cologne as a qualifier defeating Wojtek Fibak, Goran Prpić, Jeremy Bates and Tim Wilkison before defeating Ramesh Krishnan in the final.[3] 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.[4] Lundgren's best ranking was 25th in the world, but at the time he was only the 7th best Swede behind Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Anders Järryd, Joakim Nyström, Henrik Sundström and Jan Gunnarsson.[2]

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)".[5] 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."[5] He played his last match on tour against Karol Kučera in Copenhagen Open and retired at 30 years of age and then went into coaching.[4]

Coaching

Lundgren first made a name for himself as a coach when he took Marcelo Ríos into the top 10 and then they split ways, when Lundgren said that "he needed a psychologist more than a coach".[4] 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 before eventually splitting.

Lundgren then took over coaching Marat Safin and guided him to the 2005 Australian Open championship and worked with him until August 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.[6] In 2008 Lundgren took some time away from his job, because his father was ill, though he later expressed interest to return to work with British tennis.[7] During 2008 he started coaching the Cypriot tennis player Marcos Baghdatis. In February 2009 Lundgren started coaching Grigor Dimitrov from Bulgaria. He then coached Stanislas Wawrinka. In September 2011 Lundgren and Wawrinka split. Lundgren has since gone on to teach Vicht virtual tennis coaching in Houston, Texas. In March 2014 Lundgren began to coach Daniela Hantuchová.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 loss)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss1988Australian OpenHardUnited Kingdom Jeremy BatesUnited States Rick Leach
United States Jim Pugh		3–6, 2–6, 3–6

ATP career finals

Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–1)
ATP World Series (3–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–2)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (1–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (1–2)
Indoors (2–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Oct 1985 Cologne, West Germany Grand Prix Hard India Ramesh Krishnan 6–3, 6–2
Win 2–0 Aug 1987 Rye Brook, United States Grand Prix Hard United States John Ross 6–7(4–7), 7–5, 6–3
Win 3–0 Oct 1987 San Francisco, United States Grand Prix Carpet United States Jim Pugh 6–1, 7–5
Loss 3–1 Nov 1988 Stockholm, Sweden Grand Prix Hard West Germany Boris Becker 4–6, 1–6, 1–6
Loss 3–2 Jul 1989 Newport, United States Grand Prix Grass United States Jim Pugh 4–6, 6–4, 2–6
Loss 3–3 Aug 1990 Indianapolis, United States Championship Series Hard West Germany Boris Becker 3–6, 4–6

ATP career finals

Doubles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–1)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–1)
ATP Championship Series (1–0)
ATP World Series (2–5)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–7)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (2–3)
Indoors (1–4)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 1985 Cologne, West Germany Grand Prix Hard Sweden Jan Gunnarsson Austria Alex Antonitsch
Netherlands Michiel Schapers		 4–6, 5–7
Loss 0–2 Apr 1986 Cologne, West Germany Grand Prix Hard Sweden Jan Gunnarsson New Zealand Kelly Evernden
United States Chip Hooper		 4–6, 7–6, 3–6
Win 1–2 Oct 1986 Tel Aviv, Israel Grand Prix Hard United States John Letts South Africa Christo Steyn
South Africa Danie Visser		 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Loss 1–3 Jan 1988 Melbourne, Australia Grand Slam Hard United Kingdom Jeremy Bates United States Rick Leach
United States Jim Pugh		 3–6, 2–6, 3–6
Loss 1–4 Feb 1988 Memphis, United States Grand Prix Hard Sweden Mikael Pernfors United States Kevin Curren
United States David Pate		 2–6, 2–6
Win 2–4 Jul 1988 Newport, United States Grand Prix Grass United States Kelly Jones United States Scott Davis
United States Dan Goldie		 6–3, 7–6
Loss 2–5 Oct 1988 Basel, Switzerland Grand Prix Hard United Kingdom Jeremy Bates Switzerland Jakob Hlasek
United States Tomáš Šmíd		 3–6, 1–6
Loss 2–6 Jul 1990 Toronto, Canada Masters Series Hard Australia Broderick Dyke United States Paul Annacone
United States David Wheaton		 1–6, 6–7
Loss 2–7 Aug 1990 Los Angeles, United States World Series Hard Kenya Paul Wekesa United States Scott Davis
United States David Pate		 6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Win 3–7 Oct 1990 Sydney, Australia Championship Series Hard Australia Broderick Dyke Sweden Stefan Edberg
Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl		 6–2, 6–4

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Legend
ATP Challenger (1–0)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)


Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 1992 Taipei, Taiwan Challenger Hard Australia Broderick Dyke Australia Neil Borwick
Australia Andrew Kratzmann		 7–6, 7–5

Performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament1985198619871988198919901991199219931994SRW–LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A 2R 1R A 2R 1R A A 0 / 4 2–4 33%
French Open A 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 2R A Q1 A 0 / 6 1–6 14%
Wimbledon A 2R 1R 2R 4R 1R 2R Q1 Q1 Q3 0 / 6 6–6 50%
US Open 2R 1R 2R 1R 2R 2R 1R Q1 Q2 Q1 0 / 7 4–7 36%
Win–loss 1–1 1–3 1–3 2–4 4–4 1–3 3–4 0–1 0–0 0–0 0 / 23 13–23 36%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells A A A 1R A A 1R A A A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
Miami A 3R 2R 2R 1R 2R 1R A Q1 Q1 0 / 6 5–6 45%
Monte Carlo A 1R A 1R A A 1R A A A 0 / 3 0–3 0%
Rome A 1R A A A A 1R A A A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
Canada A A QF 3R A 1R 2R A 1R Q2 0 / 5 6–5 55%
Cincinnati A 1R QF 2R 1R A 1R Q3 Q2 A 0 / 5 5–5 50%
Win–loss 0–0 2–4 7–3 4–5 0–2 1–2 2–6 0–0 0–1 0–0 0 / 23 16–23 41%

Doubles

Tournament19861987198819891990199119921993SRW–LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A F 2R A 2R 1R A 0 / 4 7–4 64%
French Open 1R 1R 1R 1R A 1R 3R A 0 / 6 2–6 25%
Wimbledon 1R 1R 2R 1R 2R 1R 1R Q2 0 / 7 2–7 22%
US Open 1R 2R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R A 0 / 7 1–7 13%
Win–loss 0–3 1–3 6–4 1–4 1–2 1–4 2–4 0–0 0 / 24 12–24 33%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells A 1R 2R 1R A 2R A A 0 / 4 2–4 33%
Miami 1R 1R 3R 1R A 2R A Q1 0 / 5 2–5 29%
Monte Carlo 2R 2R 1R A 1R 2R A A 0 / 5 3–5 38%
Rome 1R A A 1R A QF 1R A 0 / 4 2–4 33%
Canada A 1R 1R A F 1R A A 0 / 4 4–4 50%
Cincinnati 1R 2R 1R 2R 2R 1R Q1 A 0 / 6 3–6 33%
Paris A A A A 1R A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Win–loss 1–4 2–5 3–5 1–4 5–4 4–6 0–1 0–0 0 / 29 16–29 36%

References

  1. ↑ "Historik" (in Swedish). Sundsvall TK. 29 May 2008. Archived from the original on 30 September 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 "Peter Lundgren – rankings history". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  3. ↑ "Cologne Victory". ITF. 29 May 2008.
  4. 1 2 3 "I Paris ska Grand Slam-samlingen bli komplett" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 29 May 2008.
  5. 1 2 "Peter Lundgren Profile". Tennisfest Sweden. 29 May 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "GB coach given a leave of absence". BBC. 29 May 2008.
  7. ↑ "Lundgren wants quick return". Eurosport. 29 May 2008.
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