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Encyclopedia > Magnus Norman
Magnus Norman
Country Flag of Sweden Sweden
Residence Filipstad, Sweden
Date of birth May 30, 1976
Place of birth Monte Carlo, Monaco
Height 6'2" (187 cm)
Weight 198 lb (89 kg)
Turned Pro 1995
Plays Right
Career Prize Money $4,537,247
Singles
Career record: 244-177
Career titles: 12
Highest ranking: No. 2 (June 12, 2000)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open SF (2000)
French Open F (2000)
Wimbledon 3rd (1997, 1999)
U.S. Open 4th (1999, 2000)
Doubles
Career record: 24-48
Career titles: 0
Highest ranking: No. 133 (May 7, 2001)

Magnus Norman (born May 30, 1976 in Filipstad) is a retired Swedish professional tennis player. Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... Filipstad is a Municipality in Värmland County, in west central Sweden. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Monte Carlo is a very wealthy section of the city-state of Monaco known for its casino, gambling, beaches, glamour, and sightings of famous people. ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Australian Open tennis tournament, now held annually during the last two weeks of January, but formerly held in December in many years, is chronologically the first of the worlds four major tournaments which together constitute the Grand Slam. ... The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ... The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest event in the sport of tennis. ... The United States Open tennis tournament, commonly referred to as the U.S. Open (or as simply the Open in the U.S. only), is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Filipstad is a Municipality in Värmland County, in west central Sweden. ...


A former World No. 2 (June 12, 2000), despite being considered average at best by most respected tennis insiders, Norman braved all criticisms and won 12 career singles titles (including a Tennis Masters Series in Rome, Italy), but perhaps is best known for his unique running ability. In 2000, he competed in the men's singles at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia where he was downed in the 3rd round by unheralded Frenchman Arnaud Di Pasquale in straight sets. He was also the runner-up at Roland Garros, losing to three-time champion Gustavo Kuerten (Brazil) in four sets. June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Tennis Masters Series is a series of nine tennis tournaments held throughout the year in Europe and North America. ... The Rome Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. ... Below is the complete set of results of the Mens Singles Tennis Competition at the Sydney International Tennis Centre in Sydney Olympic Park during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. ... This is about the city of Sydney in Australia. ... Arnaud di Pasquale (born February 11, 1979 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a professional male tennis player from France. ... Roland Garros has been considered the world’s first fighter pilot. ... Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a professional tennis player from Brazil. ...


Norman underwent corrective surgery for a heart valve condition in 1998. He unceremoniously retired due to hip and knee injuries in a Press Conference at the 2004 Stockholm Open having not played for the whole year.

Contents

Grand Slam singles finals

Runners-up (1)

Year Championship Opponent in Final Result Score in Final
2000 French Open Flag of Brazil Gustavo Kuerten Loss 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-7

This article is about the year 2000. ... The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Brazil. ... Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a professional tennis player from Brazil. ...

Masters Series Singles Finals

Wins (1)

Year Championship Opponent in Final Result Score in Final
2000 Rome Flag of Brazil Gustavo Kuerten Win 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4

The Rome Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Brazil. ... Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a professional tennis player from Brazil. ...

Titles (12)

Singles (12)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (1)
ATP Tour (11)
Titles by Surface
Hard (4)
Grass (0)
Clay (8)
Carpet (0)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. July 13, 1997 Båstad, Sweden Clay Juan Antonio Marin 7-5, 6-2
2. August 9, 1998 Amsterdam, Netherlands Clay Flag of Australia Richard Fromberg 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
3. April 25, 1999 Orlando, USA Clay Flag of Argentina Guillermo Cañas 6-0, 6-3
4. July 25, 1999 Stuttgart Outdoor, Germany Clay Flag of Germany Tommy Haas 6-7(6), 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-0, 6-3
5. August 1, 1999 Umag, Croatia Clay Flag of United States Jeff Tarango 6-2, 6-4
6. August 29, 1999 Long Island, USA Hard Flag of Spain Àlex Corretja 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-3
7. October 10, 1999 Shanghai, China Hard Marcelo Ríos 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
8. January 16, 2000 Auckland, New Zealand Hard Flag of United States Michael Chang 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
9. May 14, 2000 Rome, Italy Clay Flag of Brazil Gustavo Kuerten 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
10. July 16, 2000 Båstad, Sweden Clay Flag of Sweden Andreas Vinciguerra 6-1, 7-6(6)
11. August 27, 2000 Long Island, USA Hard Flag of Sweden Thomas Enqvist 6-3, 5-7, 7-5
12. October 22, 2000 Shanghai, China Hard Flag of Netherlands Sjeng Schalken 6-4, 4-6, 6-3

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This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Thomas Mario Haas (born April 3, 1978 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German tennis player. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Umag (Italian: Umago) is a coastal city in Istria, Croatia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Jeffrey Gail Jeff Tarango (b. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 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Michael Te-Pei Chang (born February 22, 1972, in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Rome Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Brazil. ... Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a professional tennis player from Brazil. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Båstad Municipality is a municipality in southern Sweden, where the town Båstad is seat with a population of 4,700. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... Andreas Vinciguerra (born February 19, 1981 in Malmö) is a tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1998. ... 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Singles finalist (6)

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. October 19, 1997 Ostrava, Czech Republic Carpet (I) Karol Kučera 2-6 ret.
2. August 2, 1998 Umag, Croatia Clay Bohdan Ulihrach 3-6, 6-7(0)
3. June 11, 2000 French Open, Paris, France Clay Flag of Brazil Gustavo Kuerten 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-7(6)
4. January 14, 2001 Sydney, Australia Hard Flag of Australia Lleyton Hewitt 4-6, 1-6
5. March 11, 2001 Scottsdale, USA Hard Flag of Spain Francisco Clavet 4-6, 2-6
6. October 6, 2002 Tokyo, Japan Hard Flag of Denmark Kenneth Carlsen 6-7(6), 3-6

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Doubles finalist (1)

No. Date Tournament Surface Partnering Opponents in the final Score
1. January 5, 1997 Doha, Qatar Hard Flag of Sweden Patrik Fredriksson Flag of Netherlands Jacco Eltingh
Flag of Netherlands Paul Haarhuis
3-6, 2-6

January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Doha (Arabic: ‎, translit: or ), population 400,051 (2005 census), is the capital of Qatar and is at , on the Persian Gulf. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... Jacco Eltingh (August 29, 1970) is a professional Dutch male tennis player. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (born February 19, 1966 in Eindhoven) is a former professional male tennis player from The Netherlands. ...

Performance timeline

Tournament 1992 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Career SR Career win-loss
Australian Open A A 1R 1R 1R 2R SF 4R A A 0 / 6 9-6
French Open A A 2R QF 2R 1R F 1R 1R 1R 0 / 7 12-7
Wimbledon A A A 3R 1R 3R 2R A A A 0 / 4 5-4
U.S. Open A A A 2R 2R 4R 4R A 1R 1R 0 / 6 8-6
Grand Slam SR 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 2 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 2 0 / 2 0 / 2 0 / 24 N/A
Grand Slam Win-Loss 0-0 0-0 1-2 7-4 2-4 6-4 15-4 3-2 0-2 0-2 N/A 34-24
Tennis Masters Cup A A A A A A RR A A A 0 / 1 0-3
Indian Wells Masters A A A A 2R A QF 1R A A 0 / 3 4-3
Miami Masters A A A A 1R 2R 3R 3R A A 0 / 4 3-4
Monte Carlo Masters A A A A 2R A 2R 2R 1R 3R 0 / 5 5-5
Rome Masters A A A A 2R A W 1R 1R 1R 1 / 5 7-4
Hamburg Masters A A A A 1R A QF 2R A A 0 / 3 4-3
Canada Masters A A A A A A 1R 2R 1R A 0 / 3 1-3
Cincinnati Masters A A A A A A 2R 1R 1R A 0 / 3 1-3
Madrid Masters (Stuttgart) 1R A A A 2R 3R 3R A 2R A 0 / 5 3-5
Paris Masters A A A 2R 2R 1R 2R A A A 0 / 4 2-4
Total Titles 0 0 0 1 1 5 5 0 0 0 N/A 12
Hardcourt Win-Loss 0-0 0-0 6-6 9-10 6-13 22-10 39-16 19-12 7-10 5-7 N/A 113-84
Grass Win-Loss 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 2-2 2-3 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 N/A 7-8
Carpet Win-Loss 0-1 0-0 0-0 11-7 3-3 0-1 0-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 N/A 15-14
Clay Win-Loss 0-0 3-2 7-4 20-7 17-13 20-8 27-7 5-9 5-9 5-12 N/A 109-71
Overall Win-Loss 0-1 3-2 13-10 42-26 28-31 44-22 67-25 25-22 12-19 10-19 N/A 244-177
Year End Ranking 690 170 86 22 52 15 4 49 107 125 N/A N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament. The Australian Open is the first of the worlds four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, held each January at Melbourne Park. ... The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ... Wimbledon logo The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest and arguably most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ... For the article about the U.S. Open 2006, click here. ... The Tennis Masters Cup is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of each year, involving the top eight players in the mens tennis world rankings. ... Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, California The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in the small city of Indian Wells, California. ... The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament held at Key Biscayne, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. ... The Monte Carlo Masters is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Monte Carlo, Monaco. ... The Rome Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. ... The Hamburg Masters is one of the Association of Tennis Professionals Tennis Masters Series tennis tournaments. ... The Canada Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Canada. ... The Cincinnati Masters is an annual tennis event held in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio, USA. The event started on September 18, 1899 and is today the oldest tennis tournament in the United States played in its original city. ... The Madrid Masters is is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players. ... The Paris Masters is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Paris, France. ...


SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.


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