Jörgen Windahl (born 12 March 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.
Career Windahl was the Boys' Singles Champion at the 1981 Australian Open, the first Swede to win the junior title. He defeated Pat Cash in the final. In Wimbledon later that year, he played in both the men's doubles and singles, but wasn't able to make it past the first round in either. He lost to Ángel Giménez in the singles and with his partner Robert Booth was defeated in five set by Scott McCain and Steve Meister in the doubles.ITF Tennis Profile
As a singles player he reached the quarter-finals at Metz in 1986 and was a semi-finalist in Madrid the following year. He again competed at Wimbledon in 1987 but lost in the opening round to American qualifier Ken Flach.
He was more successful on the doubles circuit, winning his first career title in the 1986 Geneva Open. The Swede was also a doubles finalist at Bologna in 1989 and doubles semi-finals at both Boston and Tel Aviv in 1986 and again in the 1989 Madrid Tennis Grand Prix.ATP World Tour Profile
Grand Prix career finals
Doubles: 2 (1–1) ResultW-LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Sep 1986 Geneva, Switzerland Clay Andreas Maurer Gustavo Luza Gustavo Tiberti 6–4, 3–6, 6–4Loss 1–1 Jun 1989 Bologna, Italy Clay Tomas Nydahl Sergio Casal Javier Sánchez 2–6, 3–6
Challenger titles
Singles: (2) No.YearTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore1.1986 Budapest, HungaryClay Jaroslav Navrátil6–1, 7–52.1988 Nyon, SwitzerlandClay Francisco Clavet2–6, 6–2, 6–1
Doubles: (5) No.YearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponents in the finalScore1.1982 Tampere, FinlandClay Magnus Tideman Stanislav Birner Francisco González6–4, 7–62.1986 Helsinki, FinlandCarpet Peter Carlsson Kelly Jones David Livingston6–2, 4–6, 7–63.1988 Clermont-Ferrand, FranceClay Rill Baxter Jean-Philippe Fleurian Andreas Maurer7–6, 6–44.1988Tarbes, FranceClay João Cunha-Silva Eduardo Furusho César Kist6–2, 6–15.1989Hossegor, FranceClay Peter Svensson David Engel Barry Moir6–4, 7–5
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