Thomas Johansson

Karl Thomas Conny Johansson (; born 24 March 1975) is a Swedish tennis coach and a former professional player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 7 singles ranking in May 2002. His career highlights in singles include a major title at the 2002 Australian Open, and a Masters title at the 1999 Canada Masters. He also won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in men's doubles, partnering Simon Aspelin. As of 2025, Johansson remains the last Swedish man to win a major in singles.

Coaching career Johansson was the coach of Sorana Cîrstea from 2022 to early 2024.

From early 2024 to September 2025, he was also the coach of Kei Nishikori.

He then coached Daniil Medvedev until July 2026.

Tennis career

Juniors Johansson began to play tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (with Magnus Norman). Even when he injured his right elbow while playing the Orange Bowl tennis championships 16s in 1991, he still reached the final, losing to Spain's Gonzalo Corrales. He finished No. 10 in the 1993 world junior rankings.

Professional career That same year he joined the pro tour for the first time, and turned pro the following year. He has managed to win 9 top-level singles titles and 1 doubles title, including the 1999 Canada Masters, defeating world No. 4 Yevgeny Kafelnikov from a set down, and the 2002 Australian Open, which he unexpectedly won (while having never progressed beyond the quarterfinals of any of his 24 previous Grand Slams) after defeating Jacobo Díaz, Markus Hipfl, Younes El Aynaoui, Adrian Voinea, Jonas Björkman Near the end of the season, Johansson won his 9th and last ATP tour title in St. Petersburg, defeating Nicolas Kiefer in straight sets.

In 2006, the Swede struggled through the season after suffering an eye injury early in the season. The highlights of the season were a 4th round at the Australian Open (where he lost to Ivan Ljubičić), his first doubles title in Båstad, Sweden with countryman Jonas Björkman, and a final in St. Petersburg (lost to Mario Ančić), where he was the defending champion.

At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics he reached the doubles final with Simon Aspelin, where he lost against the Swiss team of Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka in 4 sets. Johansson's final major appearance was the 2008 US Open, where he lost in the first round to Ernests Gulbis.

As of 6 March 2009, he has an 18–15 career Davis Cup record (17–12 in singles) in 17 ties, having played for Sweden every year other than 2003 (when he was out of action for the entire season) since 1998, and a 356–292 career overall.

He announced his retirement in June 2009 after a 15-year career.

Personal life His idol while growing up was Mats Wilander, who was the captain of Swedish Davis Cup team. He is also a keen player of golf and floorball, and a fan of ice hockey. He scored two goals and assisted on another in 6–5 win by ATP Stars over National Hockey League Players in an annual street hockey challenge in Montreal in 2001. He married Gisella Kaltenecker on 3 December 2005.

Equipment He is sponsored by Dunlop Sport for racquets and apparel, and Adidas for shoes. He uses a heavily modified Dunlop Pro Revelation racquet 'paintjobbed' to look like the current Dunlop 4D Aerogel 500 racquet.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 2002 Australian Open Hard Marat Safin 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)

ATP Masters Series finals

Singles: 1 (1 title) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1999Canada Masters Hard Yevgeny Kafelnikov 1–6, 6–3, 6–3

Olympics

Doubles: 1 (1 Silver)

ATP career finals

Singles: 14 (9 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (1–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (7–5) Finals by surface Hard (4–2) Clay (0–0) Grass (2–1) Carpet (3–2)

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)Summer Olympics (0–1) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0) Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Jul 2006 Båstad, Sweden Clay Jonas Björkman Christopher Kas Oliver Marach 6–3, 4–6, [10–4]Loss 1–1 Aug 2008 Summer Olympics, China Hard Simon Aspelin Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka 3–6, 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 3–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 4 (3–1) LegendATP Challenger (3–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)

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

Performance timelines

Singles

Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics.

Doubles

Top 10 wins