Peter Lundgren

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Lundgren
Occupation	Tennis Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 29, 1965(1965-01-29)
Age	59
Birthplace	Kramfors Municipality
Country	Sweden
Birth City	Västernorrland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Peter Lundgren Biography

Peter Lundgren is one of the most popular and richest Tennis Player who was born on January 29, 1965 in Kramfors Municipality, Västernorrland, Sweden. Peter Lundgren (born 29 January 1965) was an ex-professional male tennis athlete and tennis instructor from Sweden. He was a fan of indoor tennis in hardcourts, on grass and hardcourts in preference to clay.

He was granted the “leave of absence” from the LTA in June 2007. In 2008, Lundgren was absent for a few days from work due to his father was sick however he declared his desire to return to work for British tennis. In 2008, he began coaching players like the Cypriot tennis star Marcos Baghdatis. In February 2009, Lundgren began coaching Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria. He then became Stanislas Wawrinka’s coach. In September of 2011, Lundgren and Wawrinka separated. Lundgren has since moved on to instruct Vicht virtual tennis at Houston, Texas. In March 2014, Lundgren began coaching Daniela Hantuchova.

Lundgren later took over the coaching of Marat Safin. He coached Safin to win winning the 2003 Australian Open championship and worked with him through August. In September of 2006 it was announced that he was going to help with to coach the British Davis Cup team for the next two years.

Peter Lundgren Net Worth

Peter Lundgren is one of the richest Tennis Player from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Lundgren 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1984, Lundgren ended the year at 265. The end in the season of 1985 Lundgren went up 234 positions on the list of ranking to finish at 31st. He won his first championship at Cologne in the qualifier phase, defeating Wojtek Fibak Goran Prpic Jeremy Bates and Tim Wilkison before defeating Ramesh Krishnan in the final. Following his title win, He was described as “the new Bjorn Borg” in reference to his skill and long hair which was reminiscent to Borg and the fact that he trained with Borg in addition. His highest ranking came in at 25th position in the world. However, at the time, he was ranked 7th in the world. Swede in the world, behind Mats Wilander Stefan Edberg, Anders Jarryd, Joakim Nystrom, Henrik Sundstrom and Jan Gunnarsson.

Lundgren first gained a reputation for his coaching skills when he coached Marcelo Rios to the top 10 players and later they parted ways, after Lundgren stated the “he needed a psychologist more than a coach”. Then he began working as a coach for the Swiss Tennis Federation helping out with junior players. He took over from Peter Carter as coach for Roger Federer they worked together between 2000 and 2003 before separating.

This was the golden age of Swedish tennis in which Lundgren said “We had at most 14 players in the top 100. ( Don’t forget the size of the Swedish population, it makes it even better this achievement)”. Lundgren while managing to have some big wins over Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Thomas Muster and Pete Sampras, was not able to achieve consistency and he said himself that “I was a little up and down. Sometimes I could lose motivation and then suddenly get thrashed against lower ranked players.” He played his last match on tour against Karol Kučera in Copenhagen Open and retired at 30 years of age and then went into coaching.

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Facts & Trivia

Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Peter Lundgren celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.