Nicklas Kulti

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

Kulti was ranked the World No. 1 junior tennis player in 1989 after winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon junior titles, and finishing runner-up at the US Open.

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 before being knocked-out by Henri Leconte.

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.

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.

Doubles titles (13)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1992	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet	Magnus Larsson	Hendrik Jan Davids Libor Pimek	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2.	1992	San Marino	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Cristian Brandi Federico Mordegan	6–2, 6–2
Winner	3.	1994	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Magnus Larsson	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek	3–6, 7–6, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	1994	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	1994	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard	Lars-Anders Wahlgren	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	0–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	1995	French Open, Paris	Clay	Magnus Larsson	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7–6, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	4.	1996	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Jonas Björkman	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Menno Oosting	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	1996	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Peter Nyborg	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Andrei Olhovskiy	3–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	1996	New Delhi, India	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Byron Black Sandon Stolle	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	1996	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Jonas Björkman	Ellis Ferreira Jan Siemerink	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	6.	1996	Los Angeles, U.S.	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Marius Barnard Piet Norval	5–7, 2–6
Runner-up	7.	1996	New Haven, U.S.	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Byron Black Grant Connell	4–6, 4–6
Winner	6.	1997	Atlanta, U.S.	Clay	Jonas Björkman	Scott Davis Kelly Jones	6–2, 7–6
Winner	7.	1997	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Magnus Gustafsson Magnus Larsson	6–0, 6–3
Runner-up	8.	1997	Indianapolis, U.S.	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Michael Tebbutt Mikael Tillström	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	9.	1997	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek	6–7, 3–6
Winner	8.	1998	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Mikael Tillström	Marius Barnard Brent Haygarth	3–6, 6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	10.	1998	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Fredrik Bergh	Wayne Arthurs Andrew Kratzmann	1–6, 1–6
Winner	9.	1998	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Mikael Tillström	Chris Haggard Peter Nyborg	7–5, 3–6, 7–5
Runner-up	11.	1999	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	David Adams Jeff Tarango	6–7, 4–6
Runner-up	12.	1999	Bournemouth, England	Clay	Michael Kohlmann	David Adams Jeff Tarango	3–6, 7–6, 6–7
Winner	10.	2000	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–2, 6–7, 7–6
Winner	11.	2000	Halle, Germany	Grass	Mikael Tillström	Mahesh Bhupathi David Prinosil	7–6, 7–6
Winner	12.	2000	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Mikael Tillström	Andrea Gaudenzi Diego Nargiso	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Winner	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

External links

• Boetsch thrills France
• Nicklas Kulti at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Nicklas Kulti at the Davis Cup