Morning Man Classic: Stefan Edberg!
With the Summer olympics underway, I’d like to celebrate the gorgeous guy who won the 1984 Olympic gold medal in tennis at the Summer Games in Los Angeles.
He’s Stefan Edberg, now 58. The gorgeous Swede was also runner-up is Australia three other times. He’s a former world number one who also won Wimbledon twice, the US Open twice, the Australian Open twice and was runner-up at the French Open in 1989.
He would have been one of the few players to complete a career grand slam had he been able to defeat Michael Chang in the 1989 French Open final. He lost in five close sets to the then 17 year old.
Edberg not only had then-rising stars like Chang, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras to contend with, but he also competed regularly on the tour against such all-time greats and former number ones as Boris Becker, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, and Mats Wilander.
Edberg played on four championship Davis Cup teams in his career, won three grand slam titles in doubles. He and McEnroe are the only two male players in the history of the tour to have been ranked number one in both singles and doubles in their career. As a junior player, Edberg made history by winning all four grand slam junior championships in a single year at Wimbledon, the French Open, the US Open, and Australian Open.
His serve and volley game was so exciting to watch and so were his incredible legs!
But most of all, Edberg was the consumate gentleman – so much so that the Association of Tennis Professionals tour sportsmanship award is named after him.
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