Reino_Nyyssönen

Reino Nyyssönen

Reino Nyyssönen

Finnish tennis player (1935–2023)

Reino Nyyssönen (12 February 1935 – January 2023) was a Finnish tennis player.[1]

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Nyyssönen was a native of Turku but it was in Sweden that he took up the sport of tennis, after coming to the country as a World War II child evacuee. When he returned to Finland he continued his tennis development in Kotka.[2]

A Davis Cup player for Finland from 1955 to 1964, Nyyssönen won a total of 35 national championships, including six indoor and seven outdoor singles titles. Amongst his best grand slam performances, he made the mixed doubles quarter-finals at the 1961 Wimbledon Championships and the singles fourth round at the 1962 U.S. National Championships.[3]

Nyyssönen was later the national tennis coach for Denmark.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Tenniksessä 35 Suomen mestaruutta voittanut Reino Nyyssönen on kuollut". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 16 January 2023.
  2. [2]
    "DM: Dagens profil er Wimbledon-spilleren, med de mange mesterskaber til RTK - Roskilde Tennis Klub". roskildetennisklub.dk (in Danish). 8 August 2015.
  3. [3]
    Heikki, Miettinen (6 September 2002). "Reino Nyyssösellä yhä US Openissa suomalaisennätys". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).
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