Anders Järryd

Anders Järryd is a Swedish former tennis player who won eight Grand Slam doubles titles and reached World No. 1 in the discipline, while also achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 5.

In 1987, Anders Järryd won the French Open, US Open, and Australian Open doubles titles in a single calendar year, missing only Wimbledon to fall just short of a calendar-year Grand Slam, and finished his career with eight major doubles titles spread across three separate partnerships. He won his first doubles title in 1981 partnering fellow Swede Hans Simonsson, beginning a prolific doubles career that would eventually total 58 titles across partnerships with Simonsson, Stefan Edberg, and Australian John Fitzgerald. Järryd's first Grand Slam doubles title came at the 1983 French Open with Simonsson, and he reached further major finals with Edberg in 1984 and 1986 before enjoying his finest season in 1987, when he won three of the four Grand Slam doubles titles in a single year — missing out only on Wimbledon, where he reached the semifinal. He formed a new long-term partnership with John Fitzgerald in 1988, and the pair went on to win the French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open together in 1991 alone, giving Järryd eight Grand Slam doubles titles in total. As a singles player, Järryd reached a career-high ranking of World No. 5 in July 1985 and made the semifinals of Wimbledon that year, though he never reached a Grand Slam singles final. He also won an Olympic bronze medal in doubles partnering Edberg at the 1988 Seoul Games. Järryd retired in 1996 having spent time as the world's top-ranked doubles player, and remained based in Båstad, Sweden, in later life.

Skilled all-court doubles player renowned for court coverage and partnership chemistry

Part of Sweden's golden generation of tennis players in the 1980s, and one of the most successful doubles specialists of his era

• 8x Grand Slam doubles champion
• Former World No. 1 in doubles
• Career-high ranking of World No. 5 in singles
• Olympic bronze, doubles (1988)
• 8x ATP singles titles