Staffan Stockenberg

Staffan Stockenberg

Country (sports)	Sweden
Born	14 September 1931 Sundbyberg, Sweden
Died	20 May 2019(2019-05-20) (aged 87)
Turned pro	1948 (amateur tour)
Retired	1962
Plays	Right-handed
Singles
Career record	72–98 (42%)
Career titles	2
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	3R (1953)
Wimbledon	3R (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	QF (1953)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (1951, 1954, 1960)

Staffan Oscar Stockenberg (14 September 1931 – 20 May 2019) was a Swedish tennis player.^[1]

Tennis career

As a junior, Stockenberg achieved significant successes and won two consecutive junior singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships, in 1948 and 1949. He also won the Swedish Junior Championship title five times from 1945 to 1949.

Stockenberg's first tournament victory was at the North of England Hardcourts event in Scarborough when he beat the Polish player Czeslaw Spychala 6–4, 6–4 in the final.^[2]

Stockenberg represented Sweden on two occasions in the Davis Cup. In 1953, he together with Lennart Bergelin and Sven Davidson met Italy in the European quarterfinal tie and in 1955, Torsten Johansson joined the Swedish team for European final in Milan, once again against Italy. Stockenberg played one match in each of these ties and lost both, in 1953 against Giuseppe Merlo and in 1955 against Fausto Gardini.^[3]

Junior Grand Slam titles

Singles: 2 (2 titles)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1948	Wimbledon	Grass	Dezső Vad	6–0, 6–8, 5–7, 6–4, 6–2
Win	1949	Wimbledon	Grass	John Horn	6–2, 6–1

See also

• List of Sweden Davis Cup team representatives

References

External links

• Staffan Stockenberg at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Staffan Stockenberg at the International Tennis Federation
• Staffan Stockenberg at the Davis Cup