Mimmi Wikstedt

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Mimmi Wikstedt
Full nameMarie Wikstedt
Country (sports)Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Born (1954-04-30) 30 April 1954 (age 69)
Stockholm, Sweden
Retired1984
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 2R (1974)
French Open 1R (1973, 1974, 1978)
Wimbledon 3R (1979)
US Open 1R (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979)
Doubles
Career titles1 WTA
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open QF (1979)
French Open 2R (1979)
Wimbledon QF (1977)
US Open 3R (1979)

Marie "Mimmi" Wikstedt (born 30 April 1954) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.

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Biography

Wikstedt, who is known by her nickname "Mimmi", was born in Stockholm. She began competing in the early 1970s and made her debut for the Sweden Fed Cup team in 1973. Most of her Fed Cup matches came in doubles.

Her best grand slam performances came on the grass courts at Wimbledon. [1] She made the mixed doubles quarter-finals with Ernie Ewert in 1975, won the Wimbledon Plate in 1976, reached the women's doubles quarter-finals with Jane Stratton in 1977 and made the third round of the singles in 1979. At the 1979 Australian Open she was quarter-finalist in the women's doubles partnering Renata Tomanova.

From the late 1970s she competed on the WTA Tour, most prominently as a doubles player. Her best performance in singles was a semi-final appearance at the 1978 Christchurch International. [2] She won the doubles title at the 1982 Avon Championships of Nashville with Chris O'Neil.

She made her last Fed Cup appearance for Sweden in 1981 and finished with an 11/10 overall record, from 18 ties.

Now living in Båstad, Wikstedt remains involved in tennis as a coach. [3]

WTA Tour finals

Doubles (1–1)

ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfacePartnersOpponentsScore
Win1–0Jul 1976 Kitzbühel, , AustriaClay Flag of Sweden.svg Helena Anliot Flag of Germany.svg Katja Ebbinghaus
Flag of Germany.svg Heidi Eisterlehner
6–4, 2–6, 7–5
Loss1–1Aug 1979 Toronto, CanadaHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris O'Neil Flag of the United States.svg Lea Antonoplis
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Diane Evers
6–2, 1–6, 3–6

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References

  1. "Players Archive - Mimi Wikstedt". The Championships, Wimbledon . Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. "Hunt defeated". The Canberra Times . 25 November 1978. p. 51. Retrieved 24 January 2018 via National Library of Australia.
  3. Lassen, Fredrik (2 October 2008). "Bollekarna som ger alla nätkänsla". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 January 2018.