Magnus Norman

Swedish Born 1976 188 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Gustavo Kuerten (10)vs Jonas Bjorkman (7)vs Hicham Arazi (6)vs Rainer Schuettler (6)vs Dominik Hrbaty (6)vs Mariano Zabaleta (6)

Match log

2003

ShanghaiHard, September
QFLJiri Novak1-2 RET
R16WFernando Verdasco7-5 7-6(5)
R32WBen Qiang Zhu6-3 6-4
Costa Do SauipeHard, September
R32LGustavo Kuerten3-6 2-6
US OpenHard, August
R128LJean Rene Lisnard2-6 2-6 7-6(4) 6-0 6-7(4)
SopotClay, July
R32LDavid Sanchez4-6 2-6
UmagClay, July
QFLRafael Nadal3-6 4-6
R16WSasa Tuksar7-6(8) 7-6(3)
R32WRuben Ramirez Hidalgo4-6 6-3 7-5
StuttgartClay, July
R64LLars Burgsmuller4-6 5-7
BastadClay, July
R32LHicham Arazi5-7 4-6
Roland GarrosClay, May
R128LNicolas Massu4-6 1-6 3-6
DusseldorfClay, May
RRLFernando Gonzalez2-6 3-6
RRLRainer Schuettler1-6 3-6
Zagreb CH, challengerClay, May
R32LKonstantinos Economidis1-6 3-6
Rome MastersClay, May
R64LRainer Schuettler6-7(7) 5-7
ValenciaClay, April
R32LDominik Hrbaty5-7 6-4 5-7
BarcelonaClay, April
R64LAgustin Calleri2-6 5-7
Monte Carlo MastersClay, April
R16LFilippo Volandri5-7 3-6
R32WGustavo Kuerten1-6 7-5 6-2
R64WNicolas Lapentti6-3 6-3
CasablancaClay, April
R16LYounes El Aynaoui4-6 6-3 3-6
R32WJiri Vanek6-4 4-6 7-5
Davis Cup WG QF: SWE vs AUSHard, April
RRLMark Philippoussis5-7 7-5 3-6
CopenhagenHard, February
QFLWayne Arthurs7-6(7) 5-7 4-6
R16WKristian Pless6-4 7-6(6)
R32WRaemon Sluiter7-6(4) 7-5
MemphisHard, February
R16LVincent Spadea4-6 4-6
R32WNikolay Davydenko4-6 RET
San JoseHard, February
R32LKenneth Carlsen5-7 6-3 6-7(3)

2002

StockholmHard, October
R32LHicham Arazi2-6 2-6
Madrid MastersHard, October
R32LThomas Johansson6-2 3-6 4-6
R64WMariano Zabaleta6-7(2) 7-6(4) 6-2
TokyoHard, September
FLKenneth Carlsen6-7(6) 3-6
SFWVincent Spadea6-4 7-6(4)
QFWMagnus Larsson7-6(5) 7-5
R16WTaylor Dent6-3 6-2
R32WJuan Carlos Ferrero6-3 6-3
R64WGeorge Bastl6-3 6-0
Hong KongHard, September
R32LJuan Ignacio Chela3-6 4-6
TashkentHard, September
R32LDavide Sanguinetti6-4 4-6 6-7(2)
US OpenHard, August
R128LAlbert Costa2-6 4-6 6-3 3-6
Long IslandHard, August
R64LVincent Spadea4-6 3-6
IndianapolisHard, August
R32LTommy Haas6-7(9) 3-6
R64WRobby Ginepri7-6(0) 6-4
Cincinnati MastersHard, August
R64LJan Michael Gambill4-6 2-6
Canada MastersHard, July
R64LTaylor Dent1-6 2-6
AmersfoortClay, July
R16LJarkko Nieminen5-7 2-6
R32WMarc Rosset3-2 RET
BastadClay, July
QFLTommy Robredo6-2 3-6 3-6
R16WDominik Hrbaty2-6 6-4 6-2
R32WJonas Bjorkman1-6 6-3 6-4

Magnus Norman

Magnus Norman built his one great season on clay. In May 2000 he beat Gustavo Kuerten for the Rome title, then met him again a month later in the Roland Garros final. Norman saved match point on a challenged line call and kept saving them, nine more, before Kuerten closed it out in a fourth-set tiebreak. The runner-up finish, plus a semi-final in Melbourne that January, carried the Swede to No. 2 in the world that June, the highest ranking of his career.

The body did not hold. A hip injury took over from late 2000, and by 2004 Norman was retired at 27 with the 12 career titles already behind him. He found a longer career on the other side of the net, coaching Robin Soderling to back to back French Open finals, then guiding Stan Wawrinka to all three of his majors, the 2014 Australian Open, the 2015 French Open and the 2016 US Open. The ATP named him Coach of the Year in 2016.