Fredrik Jonsson

 ( 1977 Births ) 

Fredrik Jonsson (born 28 March 1977) is a retired tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1996. ATP World Tour: Fredrik Jonsson The right-hander reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 108 in July 2000. Jonsson comes from the same hometown as teenage colleague-star Andreas Vinciguerra.

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Tennis career

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Juniors As a junior, Jonsson reached as high as No. 19 in the world singles rankings in 1995. His best result was reaching the semifinals at the Trofeo Bonfiglio where he lost to the eventual champion, Mariano Zabaleta.

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Pro career Jonsson made his ATP Tour main draw singles debut, as a qualifier, at the 1986 Swedish Open where he lost in the first round to Carlos Costa. He subsequently participated mainly on the ITF Futures circuit and the ATP Challenger Tour. In September 1998, he reached his first final on the Challenger tour, when he lost in the final of the Budva Challenger against Tomas Behrend. In October 1998, he won the Samarkand Challenger by beating Oleg Ogorodov in the final.

In Grand Slam tennis, his best performance was at the 1999 US Open, when he reached the third round and beat world number 16, Nicolás Lapentti in the second round, before losing to Slava Doseděl.

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 7 (3–4)

ATP Challenger (1–3)

ITF Futures (2–1)

Loss	0–1		Greece F3, Chalkida	Futures	Hard	Jan-Ralph Brandt	2–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2		Budva, Yugoslavia	Challenger	Clay	Tomas Behrend	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Win	1–2		Sweden F3, Gothenburg	Futures	Hard	Nicklas Timfjord	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–2		Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Oleg Ogorodov	7–6, 6–3
Loss	2–3		Poznań, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Galo Blanco	4–6, 2–6
Win	3–3		USA F8, Little Rock, Arkansas	Futures	Hard	Martin Verkerk	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–4		Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Ivo Heuberger	6–4, 5–7, 2–6

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