Torsten Johansson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Torsten Johansson

Swedish tennis player

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1920

Place of Birth: Karlsborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 14-May-2004

Profession: association football player, tennis player

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Torsten Johansson (11 April 1920 – 14 May 2004) was a Swedish tennis player who set a record by shutting out two opponents at Wimbledon in 1947, Brian Royds and Pierre Geeland De Merxem.
A 6–0, 6–0, 6–0 victory is an extreme tennis rarity.
Johansson played for the Royal Tennis Club of Stockholm in the early 1940s and won more than 100 national titles for the club, a record that still stands.
He and Lennart Bergelin, coach of Bjorn Borg, turned Sweden into a tennis power after World War II.
In 1956, he was a Finalist to Ian Vermaak at the South African Championships.
Johansson played Davis Cup tennis for 16 years, retiring after the 1962 series against Mexico.
He then became a world-wide distributor of Tretorn Shoes from Sweden and established an outlet in the United States with Bancroft Sporting Goods.
He was a World Class Player in Senior Tournaments until his death.
In 2005, he was inducted into the Swedish Tennis Hall of Fame.