Top 8 Swedish tennis players of all time

#2 Stefan Edberg

Stefan Edberg with the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship trophy

One of the foremost exponents of the now obsolete serve-and-volley style of play, Stefan Edberg was a colossal tennis force in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Edberg was a 6-time Grand Slam champion - winning two titles each at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Despite his style of play not being suited to clay, Edberg finished as runner-up at the French Open of 1989, narrowly missing out on a Career Slam.

A 4-time Davis Cup winner with Sweden, Edberg also won the ATP Finals twice - in 1985 and 1986.

Edberg is the only Swede till date to have been ranked as Number 1 in both singles and doubles. In doubles, Edberg won 18 titles including 3 Grand Slam tournaments. At the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games, he won bronze in both the singles and doubles categories.

Edberg was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.