Mikael Tillström

Mikael Tillström (born 5 March 1972) is a tennis coach and a former professional player from Sweden. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking on 14 October 1996 of world No. 39.

Professional career Tillström‘s 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.

Tillstrom won one career title in singles at the Chennai Open, also called then as Gold Flake Open, in 1997, and eight career doubles titles, all but one with fellow Swede Nicklas Kulti.

He also reached the final of 2000 Majorca Open. 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.

Coaching career Mikael Tillström is running the Good to Great Tennis Academy together with Magnus Norman and Nicklas Kulti.

He coached Denis Shapovalov from mid 2025 until February 2026.

He was also the coach of Gaël Monfils (2015–2020, 2023–2026).

He is currently coaching Corentin Moutet.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ATP career finals

Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–1)ATP World Series (1–3)Finals by surfaceHard (1–3)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (1–3)Indoors (0–1)

Doubles: 12 (8 titles, 4 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (2–0)ATP World Series (6–4)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (4–4)Grass (1–0)Carpet (1–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (6–4)Indoors (2–0)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 3 (2–1) LegendATP Challenger (2–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 13 (11–2) LegendATP Challenger (11–2)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (8–2)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles