Mats Wilander
 Mats Wilander    (tennis player) | |
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 Missed Pan Am Flight 103[1] | |
| Born | 22 August 1964) Växjö, Sweden |
Swedish top tennis player who had made a reservation but missed flight Pan Am Flight 103. | |
Mats Wilander is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 to 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open), and one Grand Slam men's doubles title, at Wimbledon. Wilander had made a reservation but did not take a seat on Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 after an explosion.
Career
In 1988, Wilander won three of the four Grand Slam singles events and finished that year ranked World No. 1. Although he never won the singles title at Wimbledon, Wilander twice won the Australian Open when that tournament was still played on grass courts. This makes Wilander one of only six men (along with Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic) to have won Grand Slam singles titles on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts.[2] He and Rafael Nadal are the only men in tennis history to have won at least two Grand Slam singles titles on each of the three surfaces (2 Australian when it was played on grass prior to 1988, 1 Australian and 1 US on hard and 3 French on clay).
Wilander won his fourth Grand Slam singles title at the age of 20, the youngest man in history to have achieved that feat.[3] He also won eight Grand Prix Super Series titles (1983–88) the precursors to the current ATP World Tour Masters 1000. He won 33 singles titles and seven doubles titles during his career. He was also a driving force behind Sweden's run of seven consecutive Davis Cup finals in the 1980s.
In 2002, Mats Wilander was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Lucky Escapees from Pan Am Flight 103 | Article | 20 October 2018 | Christopher Nicholson | In this article, Judge Nicholson analyses in forensic detail conflicting claims that former foreign minister Pik Botha had been booked to travel on the doomed Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988. The Judge's analysis concludes by asking whether UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson "was not the real target of those who put the bomb on Pan Am 103." |
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