Mikael Tillström


Mikael Tillström is a former tennis player and coach from Sweden.

Career

He represented his native country as at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he was defeated in the third round by Switzerland's Roger Federer. The right-hander won one career title in singles and eight career doubles titles, all but one with fellow Swede Nicklas Kulti. He also reached the final of 2000 Majorca Open.
He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 October 1996, when he became world no. 39. His best performance at a Grand Slam came when he got to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 1996, defeating Aaron Krickstein, Christian Ruud, Patrick McEnroe and Thomas Muster and then losing to Michael Chang.

Coaching

He is running the Good to Great Tennis Academy together with Magnus Norman and Nicklas Kulti, and he is currently coaching Gaël Monfils and Denis Shapovalov.

ATP career finals

Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0[1997 Chennai Open – Singles|]Chennai, IndiaWorld SeriesHarddts|Apr 1998

Doubles: 12 (8 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1[1992 Dutch Open – Doubles|]Hilversum, NetherlandsWorld SeriesClay

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 3 (2–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Ljubljana, SloveniaChallengerClaydts|Jun 1994

Doubles: 13 (11–2)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0Ljubljana, SloveniaChallengerClay