Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander is a Swedish former professional tennis player, born on 22 August 1964 in Vaxjo, who was ranked world number one in men's singles for 20 weeks and finished 1988 as the year-end number one. He won 33 career singles titles, including seven majors, three each at the French Open and the Australian Open and one at the US Open, and a Wimbledon men's doubles major. His breakthrough was the 1982 French Open, won at 17 as an unseeded player, and in 1988 he took three of the four singles majors. He was a driving force behind Sweden's seven consecutive Davis Cup finals from 1983 to 1989 and its titles in 1984, 1985 and 1987. He is one of the few men to have won majors on grass, hard and clay courts, retired in 1996 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002.