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Nicklas Kulti
Country (sports)	Sweden
Residence	Stockholm, Sweden
Born	22 April 1971 (age 53); Stockholm, Sweden
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	1989
Retired	2000
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 3,186,946
Singles
Career record	154–182
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 32 (3 May 1993)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (1989, 1994, 1996)
French Open	QF (1992)
Wimbledon	2R (1992, 1997)
US Open	2R (1993, 1994)
Doubles
Career record	238–145
Career titles	13
Highest ranking	No. 11 (29 September 1997)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (1997, 1999, 2000)
French Open	F (1995)
Wimbledon	SF (2000)
US Open	F (1997)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2001)
French Open	3R (2000)
Wimbledon	2R (2000)
US Open	QF (2000)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (1997, 1998)

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Nicklas Kulti (born 22 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He was born in Stockholm.

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 1990, 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Kulti's career-high rankings were World No. 32 in singles (in 1993), and World No. 11 in doubles (in 1997). His career prize-money totalled $3,186,946. He retired from the professional tour in 2000. He runs the Good to Great Tennis Academy together with Magnus Norman and Mikael Tillström.

Career finals

Singles: 7 (3 wins, 4 losses)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP Tour (3–4)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 1990	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Jordi Arrese	6–7^(3–7), 6–7^(6–8)
Win	1–1	Jan 1991	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Michael Stich	6–3, 1–6, 6–2
Win	2–1	Jan 1993	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Christian Bergström	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
Loss	2–2	Mar 1993	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Andrei Olhovskiy	5–7, 6–3, 2–6
Loss	2–3	Apr 1996	Atlanta, United States	Clay	Karim Alami	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Jun 1996	Halle, Germany	Grass	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–7^(5–7), 6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–4	Jun 1999	Halle, Germany	Grass	Nicolas Kiefer	3–6, 2–6

Doubles: 25 (13 wins, 12 losses)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	1992	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet	Magnus Larsson	Hendrik Jan Davids Libor Pimek	6–3, 6–4
Win	2.	1992	San Marino	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Cristian Brandi Federico Mordegan	6–2, 6–2
Win	3.	1994	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Magnus Larsson	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek	3–6, 7–6, 6–4
Loss	1.	1994	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman	2–6, 3–6
Loss	2.	1994	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Carpet	Lars-Anders Wahlgren	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	0–6, 5–7
Loss	3.	1995	French Open, Paris	Clay	Magnus Larsson	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7–6, 4–6, 1–6
Win	4.	1996	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Jonas Björkman	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Menno Oosting	6–4, 6–4
Loss	4.	1996	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Peter Nyborg	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Andrei Olhovskiy	3–6, 4–6
Win	5.	1996	New Delhi, India	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Byron Black Sandon Stolle	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	5.	1996	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Jonas Björkman	Ellis Ferreira Jan Siemerink	6–2, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	6.	1996	Los Angeles, U.S.	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Marius Barnard Piet Norval	5–7, 2–6
Loss	7.	1996	New Haven, U.S.	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Byron Black Grant Connell	4–6, 4–6
Win	6.	1997	Atlanta, U.S.	Clay	Jonas Björkman	Scott Davis Kelly Jones	6–2, 7–6
Win	7.	1997	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Magnus Gustafsson Magnus Larsson	6–0, 6–3
Loss	8.	1997	Indianapolis, U.S.	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Michael Tebbutt Mikael Tillström	3–6, 2–6
Loss	9.	1997	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek	6–7, 3–6
Win	8.	1998	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Mikael Tillström	Marius Barnard Brent Haygarth	3–6, 6–3, 7–6
Loss	10.	1998	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Fredrik Bergh	Wayne Arthurs Andrew Kratzmann	1–6, 1–6
Win	9.	1998	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Mikael Tillström	Chris Haggard Peter Nyborg	7–5, 3–6, 7–5
Loss	11.	1999	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	David Adams Jeff Tarango	6–7, 4–6
Loss	12.	1999	Bournemouth, England	Clay	Michael Kohlmann	David Adams Jeff Tarango	3–6, 7–6, 6–7
Win	10.	2000	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–2, 6–7, 7–6
Win	11.	2000	Halle, Germany	Grass	Mikael Tillström	Mahesh Bhupathi David Prinosil	7–6, 7–6
Win	12.	2000	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Andrea Gaudenzi Diego Nargiso	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win	13.	2000	Paris Indoor, France	Carpet	Max Mirnyi	Paul Haarhuis Daniel Nestor	6–4, 7–5

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	3R	1R	3R	3R	2R	0 / 7	7–7
French Open	A	A	A	1R	A	A	2R	F	QF	2R	1R	SF	3R	QF	0 / 9	19–9
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	QF	QF	QF	1R	SF	A	0 / 6	14–6
U.S. Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	3R	2R	F	3R	1R	3R	A	0 / 7	15–7
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 2	0 / 29	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	6–3	7–3	6–4	11–4	5–4	6–4	10–4	4–2	N/A	55–29
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	NME		A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	QF	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	3–2
Miami	NME		A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	3R	A	SF	A	3R	0 / 4	6–4
Monte Carlo	NME		A	A	A	A	W	2R	F	SF	1R	A	QF	A	1 / 6	13–5
Rome	NME		A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	2R	A	0 / 2	2–2
Hamburg	NME		A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	2–1
Canada	NME		A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	3–1
Cincinnati	NME		A	A	A	A	1R	A	QF	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	2–2
Stuttgart (Stockholm)	NME		A	A	1R	1R	QF	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	A	0 / 6	2–6
Paris	NME		A	A	A	A	2R	A	1R	2R	QF	A	W	A	1 / 5	6–4
Masters Series SR	N/A		0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 1	1 / 5	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 2	1 / 4	0 / 1	2 / 29	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	N/A		0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	10–4	1–3	8–4	6–4	3–4	4–2	5–3	1–1	N/A	39–27
Year End Ranking	484	271	206	592	213	489	23	50	16	16	38	37	15	155	N/A

A = did not attend tournament

References

^ Sally Jenkins (15 June 1992). "Down And Dirty". Sports Illustrated. Vol. 76, no. 23. pp. 24–29.
^ "Tennis: Boetsch thrills France". The Independent. 2 December 1996. Retrieved 29 March 2012.

External links

Nicklas Kulti at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Nicklas Kulti at the International Tennis Federation
Nicklas Kulti at the Davis Cup
www.goodtogreatworld.com

[1] Sally Jenkins (15 June 1992). "Down And Dirty". Sports Illustrated. Vol. 76, no. 23. pp. 24–29.

[2] "Tennis: Boetsch thrills France". The Independent. 2 December 1996. Retrieved 29 March 2012.

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+In 1990, 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 (tennis)|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 (tennis)|Diego Pérez]] before being knocked-out by [[Henri Leconte]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Down And Dirty|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1992/06/15/126673/down-and-dirty-in-a-french-open-that-required-more-grit-than-grace-monica-seles-outlasted-steffi-graf-to-win-her-third-consecutive-grand-slam-title|magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]|author=Sally Jenkins|date=15 June 1992|volume=76|issue=23|pages=24–29}}</ref>
-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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennis: Boetsch thrills France|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis--boetsch-thrills-france-1312630.html|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=29 March 2012|date=2 December 1996}}</ref>
+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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennis: Boetsch thrills France|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis--boetsch-thrills-france-1312630.html|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=29 March 2012|date=2 December 1996}}</ref>
 Kulti's career-high rankings were World No. 32 in singles (in 1993), and World No. 11 in doubles (in 1997). His career prize-money totalled [[US$|$]]3,186,946. He retired from the professional tour in 2000. He runs the Good to Great Tennis Academy together with [[Magnus Norman]] and [[Mikael Tillström]].