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Hi! This is a page dedicated to one of my fave tennis players.
It's annoying to know that how little information on this Swede can be found
on the Web. This man has beaten top players like Pete Sampras, Goran Ivanisevic,
Thomas Muster, Andre Agassi, compatriot Jonas Bjorkman, etc. in just a year.
He has recently undergone a five-hour surgery last December to remove the
extra valve in his heart, on the Monday just after the final match of the
Davis Cup. The last attack he has suffered was during the final set of the
match against Ivanisevic in Wimbledon 97, which forced him to have an injury
timeout. He won in the end, of course!
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���Daring....
How did I come to know him?
It was entirely by chance. The first match in which I have ever watched
him play is the AT&T Challenge in Atlanta, April 1997. It was a semi-final
match against Aussie Jason Stroltenberg. Although he lost in the end, that
was nevertheless a close, well-played match.
Confident...
Magnificent
Magnus.� 
One of his finest moments came in the following month, on his 21st birthday,
when he showed top seed and world number 1 Pete Sampras the way out of French
Open. He himself admitted that it wasn't a 100% fair game, because Sampras
was plagued by a locker-room virus. In the following match against the 15
th-seeded player Marc Rosset, he sustained a thigh injury, but he won the
match and reached the Quarters. Ever since, he has had relapses of the thigh
injury. (The last one had forced him to retire in the second set of the
finals in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and thus deprived him of a second career
title.) In June, he made the headlines again with his victory over the then
world number 3 Goran Ivanisevic, or simply, the Ace-man, who thumped down
46 aces, while Magnus had only 25 in the match. It was closely-played, a
thrilling five-setter which lasted 3 hours 23 mins. The brave Swede had
an injury time-out during the 14-12 final set, due to an accelerated heart
beat which could have coerced him to default. After the courtside treatment
by the doctors, he resumed playing. His strong determination to win paid
off eventually. In the following month, he claimed his first career title
in the Investor Swedish Open, a clay-court tourney with a home setting.
Moments to relish...
���What a stunning shot!
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Updated: 1st August 1998
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