Nicklas Kulti

Nicklas Kulti (born 22 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He was born in Stockholm. His career-high rankings were World No. 32 in singles in 1993, and No. 11 in doubles in 1997. Kulti was ranked No. 1 in the junior singles rankings in 1989.

Tennis career

Juniors Kulti was ranked No. 1 in the junior world singles rankings in 1989 after winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon junior titles, and finishing runner-up at the US Open.

Pro tour In 1991, Kulti won his first top-level singles title at Adelaide. He won a total of three tour singles titles during his professional career. He also won 13 top-level doubles titles, including the Monte Carlo Masters in 1994 (partnering Magnus Larsson) and the Paris Masters in 2000 (partnering Max Mirnyi). Kulti was a men's doubles runner-up at the French Open in 1995 (with Larsson) and the US Open in 1997 (with Jonas Björkman). Kulti's best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1992 French Open, where he reached the quarter-finals by defeating John McEnroe, Markus Zillner, Michael Chang and Diego Pérez before being knocked-out by Henri Leconte.

Kulti was a member of the Swedish teams which won the Davis Cup in both 1997 and 1998 (partnering Björkman to win doubles rubbers in the final on both occasions). He was also on the team which finished runners-up in the Davis Cup in 1996. In the fifth and deciding match against Frenchman Arnaud Boetsch, Kulti was a late replacement for the injured Stefan Edberg. In a 4-hour and 46-minute thriller, Boetsch saved three matchpoints and finally overcame Kulti, 7–6, 2–6, 4–6, 7–6, 10–8.

Post-retirement career He runs the Good to Great Tennis Academy together with Magnus Norman and Mikael Tillström.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ATP career finals

Singles: 7 (3 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 (0–0)ATP World Series (3–4)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (0–2)Grass (1–1)Carpet (0–1)Finals by settingOutdoors (3–3)Indoors (0–1)

Doubles: 25 (13 titles, 12 runner-ups)

LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–2)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters Series (2–1)ATP Championship Series (2–2)ATP World Series (9–7)Finals by surfaceHard (2–4)Clay (6–6)Grass (1–0)Carpet (4–2)Finals by settingOutdoors (8–10)Indoors (5–2)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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

Doubles: 7 (6–1) LegendATP Challenger (6–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (3–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Mixed doubles