Jan Gunnarsson

 ( 1962 Births ) 

Jan Gunnarsson (; born 30 May 1962) is a former tennis player from Sweden, who won one singles title in Vienna in 1985 (beating Libor Pimek in the final) and nine doubles titles on the world tour during his professional career. In 1989 he reached the semi-finals of Australian Open where he lost in straight sets to Miloslav Mečíř.

Along with Michael Mortensen he won the longest tie-break in tennis history at Wimbledon in 1985. The Swedish/Danish duo defeated John Frawley and Víctor Pecci in the first round.

The right-hander reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 25 in December 1985.

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Summer 2012 Olympics controversy Gunnarsson was an expert commentator for the Summer 2012 Olympic Games. His position on Swedish television became controversial after he made Xenophobia comments in response to negative comments made by the Swedish Culture and Sports Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth about financial support for future Swedish applications for major championships. On his Facebook page, Gunnarsson posted the comment, "There's not enough money when the state is paying welfare for 27,000 Somalis." His comment was criticized by SVT's sports editor Per Yng, and he removed the comment shortly after.

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Career finals

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Singles (1 title, 4 runner-ups)

Loss	0–1		Lorraine Open, France	Carpet	Ramesh Krishnan	3–6, 3–6
Win	1–1	Nov 1985	Vienna Open, Austria	Carpet	Libor Pimek	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–4, 1–6, 7–5
Loss	1–2	Oct 1986	Toulouse, France	Hard (i)	Guy Forget	6–4, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	1–3	Jul 1987	Mercedes Cup, West Germany	Clay	Miloslav Mečíř	0–6, 2–6
Loss	1–4	May 1991	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Paolo Canè	7–5, 3–6, 5–7

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Doubles (9 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Win	1–0	Nov 1982	Stockholm Open, Sweden	Hard (i)	Mark Dickson	Sherwood Stewart Ferdi Taygan	7–6, 6–7, 6–4
Win	2–0	Mar 1983	Lorraine Open, France	Hard (i)	Anders Järryd	Ricardo Acuña Belus Prajoux	7–5, 6–3
Loss	2–1	May 1983	Rome Masters, Italy	Clay	Mike Leach	Francisco González Víctor Pecci	2–6, 7–6, 4–6
Win	3–1	Apr 1984	ATP Nice, France	Clay	Michael Mortensen	Hans Gildemeister Andrés Gómez	6–1, 7–5
Loss	3–2	Apr 1984	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Mats Wilander	Mark Edmondson Sherwood Stewart	2–6, 1–6
Win	4–2	Jul 1984	Swedish Open, Sweden	Clay	Michael Mortensen	Juan Avendaño Fernando Roese	6–0, 6–0
Loss	4–3	Oct 1984	Cologne, West Germany	Hard (i)	Joakim Nyström	Wojciech Fibak Sandy Mayer	1–6, 3–6
Loss	4–4	Nov 1984	ATP Treviso, Italy	Clay	Sherwood Stewart	Pavel Složil Tim Wilkison	2–6, 3–6
Win	5–4	Nov 1984	Toulouse, France	Carpet	Michael Mortensen	Pavel Složil Tim Wilkison	6–4, 6–2
Loss	5–5	Sep 1985	Open Seat, Spain	Clay	Michael Mortensen	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	3–6, 3–6
Loss	5–6	Oct 1985	Cologne, West Germany	Hard (i)	Peter Lundgren	Alex Antonitsch Michiel Schapers	4–6, 5–7
Loss	5–7	Apr 1986	Cologne, West Germany	Hard (i)	Peter Lundgren	Kelly Evernden Chip Hooper	4–6, 7–6, 3–6
Win	6–7	Sep 1986	Open Seat, Spain	Clay	Joakim Nyström	Carlos di Laura Claudio Panatta	6–3, 6–4
Loss	6–8	Oct 1986	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Tomáš Šmíd	Guy Forget Yannick Noah	6–7, 4–6
Win	7–8	Jul 1987	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Tomáš Šmíd	Loïc Courteau Guy Forget	7–6, 6–2
Loss	7–9	Feb 1989	ATP Rotterdam, Netherlands	Clay	Magnus Gustafsson	Miloslav Mečíř Milan Šrejber	6–7, 0–6
Win	8–9	Oct 1989	Vienna, Austria	Carpet	Anders Järryd	Paul Annacone Kelly Evernden	6–2, 6–3
Loss	8–10	Jul 1990	Swedish Open, Sweden	Clay	Udo Riglewski	Rikard Bergh Ronnie Båthman	1–6, 4–6
Win	9–10	Apr 1991	ATP Nice, France	Clay	Rikard Bergh	Vojtěch Flégl Nicklas Utgren	6–4, 4–6, 6–3

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