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Sweden · born Sundbyberg, 1931 · died 2019 · Wimbledon boys' champion 1948 and 1949
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Wimbledon boys' singles titles, 1948 and 1949
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Swedish junior singles titles, 1945 to 1949
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Wimbledon third rounds in a row, 1951 to 1956
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Swedish singles champion
Born in Sundbyberg in 1931, Stockenberg grew up in Djursholm, where his family moved in 1940. He won the Swedish junior championship five times, from 1945 to 1949, and the Wimbledon boys' singles in 1948 and 1949. As a senior he stood just below the top Swedes of the 1950s, Lennart Bergelin, Sven Davidson and Torsten Johansson. His first tournament win came at the North of England Hardcourts in Scarborough in 1952; in 1954 he won at Ostend and took the Swedish singles title, beating Davidson in the semi-final and Bergelin in the final. He also won the Swedish doubles in 1950 with Nils Rohlsson. He played Davis Cup for Sweden in 1953 and 1955, losing both his rubbers against Italy, and kept playing until 1962. He died in 2019.
| Major singles titles | 2: Wimbledon (1948, 1949) |
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| Wimbledon boys' finals | 1948: beat Dezső Vad of Hungary 6-0, 6-8, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. 1949: beat John Horn of Great Britain 6-2, 6-1 |
| Wimbledon singles | Third round every year from 1951 to 1956; lost to Gardnar Mulloy in 1952 and 1953, to Jacques Brichant in 1954, Bob Perry in 1955 and Nicola Pietrangeli in 1956 |
| Wimbledon doubles | Quarter-final 1953 |
| Queen's Club | Third round 1951, beating Abe Segal before losing to Eric Sturgess |
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Wimbledon 1948 · Boys' final
In his first Wimbledon boys' final Stockenberg won the opening set 6-0 against the Hungarian Dezső Vad, then lost the next two 6-8, 5-7. He took the fourth 6-4 and the fifth 6-2. A year later he defended the title against John Horn of Great Britain for the loss of three games.
Source: WikipediaStockholm, 1940s and 1950s
As a successful junior he was regularly invited to play tennis with King Gustaf V and, after 1950, with his successor, King Gustaf VI Adolf. He had grown up in Djursholm, where his family, keen on the game, had moved in 1940, and he won the Swedish junior title five times between 1945 and 1949.
Source: Wikipedia (Swedish)Wimbledon 1953 · Third round
He beat Matt Mohtadi and Jack Ager, then led the American veteran Gardnar Mulloy 6-4, 6-3. Mulloy took the next two sets 6-3, 6-3 and the fifth 9-7. The year before, Mulloy had also beaten him in the third round, when Stockenberg retired in the fifth set.
Source: TennisarchivesWimbledon 1955 · Second round
Six years after the 1949 boys' final, Stockenberg met John Horn again at Wimbledon, this time in the men's singles. Horn retired with Stockenberg ahead 6-3, 4-0. The Swede then lost a five-set third round to Bob Perry, 6-2, 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6.
Source: TennisarchivesMilan 1955
He played for Sweden in two Davis Cup ties, both against Italy: the European quarter-final in 1953 and the European final in Milan in 1955. He played one rubber in each and lost both, to Giuseppe Merlo and to Fausto Gardini, and Italy won the 1955 tie 4-1.
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