About Reino Nyyssönen
Lived 1937 – 2023 (aged 85–86). Reino Nyyssönen was a Finnish tennis player.
Reino Nyyssönen (12 February 1935 – January 2023) was a Finnish tennis player.
Nyyssönen was a native of Turku but it was in Sweden that he took up the sport of tennis, after coming to the country as a World War II child evacuee. When he returned to Finland he continued his tennis development in Kotka.
A Davis Cup player for Finland from 1955 to 1964, Nyyssönen won a total of 35 national championships, including six indoor and seven outdoor singles titles. Amongst his best grand slam performances, he made the mixed doubles quarter-finals at the 1961 Wimbledon Championships and the singles fourth round at the 1962 U.S. National Championships.
Nyyssönen was later the national tennis coach for Denmark.
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Who was Reino Nyyssönen?
Finnish tennis player
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Reino Nyyssönen was born on 12 February 1937 in Kotka.
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Reino Nyyssönen died in 2023.
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Reino Nyyssönen was a tennis player.
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Reino Nyyssönen was Finnish.
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