Elias Ymer (born 10 April 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. Ymer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 105, achieved on 11 June 2018. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 188, achieved on 16 October 2017. He is the current No. 1 Swedish singles player.
From 2017 to 2018, Ymer was coached by Robin Söderling.
In the autumn of 2022 Ymer, together with ten other athletes, was accepted as a student at Harvard Business School's “Crossover into Business” program.
At the 2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Ymer defeated Thiemo de Bakker and Nick Kyrgios to reach the third round, where he lost to David Ferrer.
He qualified to the main draw of 2015 French Open after wins against Roberto Marcora, Blaž Rola and Roberto Carballés Baena. He lost in the first round against Lukáš Rosol in straight sets.
Ymer won his first ATP Challenger title at the 2015 Città di Caltanissetta, beating American Bjorn Fratangelo in straight sets.
Ymer qualified to the main draw of 2015 Wimbledon Championships after wins against Thomas Fabbiano, Boy Westerhof and Guido Pella. He lost in the first round to 23rd seed Ivo Karlović in four sets.
Ymer qualified for all four Grand Slams in 2015 after coming through qualifying at the 2015 US Open. He lost in the first round to Diego Schwartzman. His finish made him the second man to progress to the main draw of all four majors through qualifying in one year, after Frank Dancevic in 2011.
Ranked No. 170 at the 2023 Abierto Mexicano Telcel he reached the main draw as a lucky loser after the withdrawal of Cameron Norrie and defeated Adrian Mannarino to reach the second round. As a result he moved 20 positions up back to the top 150.
At the 2023 Stockholm Open he reached the quarterfinals as a wildcard defeating Roberto Bautista Agut and qualifier Dino Prizmic.
Ranked No. 206, he qualified for the 2024 Wimbledon Championships.
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Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) |
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) |
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) |
ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0) |
Hard (1–0) |
Clay (0–0) |
Grass (0–0) |
Win | 1–0 | Stockholm Open, Sweden | 250 Series | Hard (i) | Mikael Ymer | Mate Pavić Michael Venus | 6–1, 6–1 |
ATP Challengers (6–4) |
ITF Futures (5–1) |
Loss | 0–1 | Sweden F6, Falun | Futures | Hard (i) | Adrien Bossel | 2–6, 6–4, 1–6 | |
Win | 1–1 | Egypt F12, Sharm el Sheikh | Futures | Clay | Marko Tepavac | 6–2, 6–3 | |
Win | 2–1 | Egypt F13, Sharm El Sheikh | Futures | Clay | Gleb Sakharov | 7–5, 6–4 | |
Win | 3–1 | Sweden, Båstad | Futures | Clay | Patrik Rosenholm | 6–3, 4–6, 7–6(8–6) | |
Win | 4–1 | Romania F3, Bacău | Futures | Clay | José Hernández-Fernández | 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 7–5 | |
Win | 5–1 | Netherlands F2, Alkmaar | Futures | Clay | Jorge Aguilar | 6–1, 5–7, 6–2 | |
Win | 6-1 | Caltanissetta, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Bjorn Fratangelo | 6–3, 6–2 | |
Win | 7-1 | Barletta, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Adam Pavlásek | 7–5, 6–4 | |
Win | 8-1 | Cordenons, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Roberto Carballés Baena | 6–2, 6–3 | |
Win | 9-1 | Mouilleron-le-Captif, France | Challenger | Hard (i) | Yannick Maden | 7–5, 6–4 | |
Win | 10-1 | Mouilleron-le-Captif, France | Challenger | Hard (i) | Yannick Maden | 6–3, 7–6(7–5) | |
Win | 11-1 | Pune, India | Challenger | Hard | Prajnesh Gunneswaran | 6–2, 7–5 | |
Loss | 11-2 | Lyon, France | Challenger | Clay | Corentin Moutet | 4–6, 4–6 | |
Loss | 11-3 | Lyon, France | Challenger | Clay | Pablo Cuevas | 2–6, 2–6 | |
Loss | 11-4 | Parma, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Borna Ćorić | 6-7(4-7), 0-6 | |
Loss | 11–5 | Open de Oeiras, Portugal | Challenger | Clay | Jaime Faria | 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 4–6 | |
Loss | 11–6 | Chennai, India | Challenger | Hard | Kyrian Jacquet | 6–7(1–7), 4–6 |
ATP Challengers (0–1) |
ITF Futures (0–0) |
Loss | 0–1 | Tampere Open, Finland | Challenger | Clay | Anton Zaitcev | Ruben Gonzales Sean Thornley | 7–6(7–5), 6–7(10–12), 8–10 |
Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||||||||
Australian Open | A | A | 1R | Q1 | Q1 | 1R | A | A | 1R | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 | 0 / 3 | 0–3 |
French Open | A | A | 1R | Q2 | Q2 | 2R | Q1 | Q2 | Q1 | Q1 | 1R | Q1 | 0 / 3 | 1–3 |
Wimbledon | A | A | 1R | A | Q2 | Q1 | Q1 | NH | Q1 | 1R | Q2 | 1R | 0 / 3 | 0–3 |
US Open | A | A | 1R | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0-0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 / 10 | 1–10 |
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | ||||||||||||||
Indian Wells Masters | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | 1R | NH | A | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | |
Miami Open | A | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | Q1 | Q2 | Q1 | NH | A | Q2 | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |
Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | Q2 | A | A | A | Q2 | NH | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
Madrid Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | NH | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||
Italian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Q1 | A | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||
Canadian Open | A | A | A | A | A | Q2 | A | NH | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | ||
National representation | ||||||||||||||
Davis Cup | Z1 | Z1 | Z1 | Z1 | Z2 | Z1 | QR | QF | 0 / 1 | 12–13 | ||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
Tournaments | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 44 | |||
Overall win–loss | 1–2 | 2–5 | 4–9 | 2–9 | 4–5 | 5–9 | 1–7 | 0–1 | 5–8 | 6–2 | 30–57 | |||
Year-end ranking | 769 | 228 | 136 | 160 | 144 | 115 | 176 | 205 | 171 |
Career statistics | ||||||||||
Tournaments | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
Titles / Finals | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 1 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 1 / 1 |
Overall win–loss | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 9–12 |
Year-end ranking | 705 | 663 | 252 | 448 | 385 | 368 | 417 | 391 |
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