Karl Thomas Conny Johansson (; born 24 March 1975) is a Swedish tennis coach and a former professional player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 7 singles ranking in May 2002. His career highlights in singles include a major title at the 2002 Australian Open, and a Masters title at the 1999 Canada Masters. He also won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in men's doubles, partnering Simon Aspelin. As of 2025, Johansson remains the last Swedish man to win a major in singles.
Coaching career Johansson was the coach of Sorana Cîrstea from 2022 to early 2024.
From early 2024 to September 2025, he was also the coach of Kei Nishikori.
He then coached Daniil Medvedev until July 2026.
Tennis career
Juniors Johansson began to play tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (with Magnus Norman). Even when he injured his right elbow while playing the Orange Bowl tennis championships 16s in 1991, he still reached the final, losing to Spain's Gonzalo Corrales. He finished No. 10 in the 1993 world junior rankings.
Professional career That same year he joined the pro tour for the first time, and turned pro the following year. He has managed to win 9 top-level singles titles and 1 doubles title, including the 1999 Canada Masters, defeating world No. 4 Yevgeny Kafelnikov from a set down, and the 2002 Australian Open, which he unexpectedly won (while having never progressed beyond the quarterfinals of any of his 24 previous Grand Slams) after defeating Jacobo Díaz, Markus Hipfl, Younes El Aynaoui, Adrian Voinea, Jonas Björkman and Jiří Novák before defeating his heavily favored opponent in the final, Marat Safin, in four sets, again from a set down. "He was overpowering me from the baseline, backhand to backhand" said Safin afterwards. Johansson became the first Swedish player to win a Slam since Stefan Edberg won the 1992 US Open title, and the first Swede to claim the Australian Open since his idol Mats Wilander in 1988.
A knee injury robbed Johansson of the latter half of the 2002 season and all of 2003, and Johansson was therefore unable to compete until the start of 2004. Many people weren't sure if Johansson will be able to compete again because of the seriousness of the injury. In 2005, he made a comeback to become the first Swedish player to reach the semifinals at Wimbledon since Edberg in 1993, and only dropped a set en route, losing to 2nd seed Andy Roddick in a tightly contested four set match that lasted a minute under 3 hours. Near the end of the season, Johansson won his 9th and last ATP tour title in St. Petersburg, defeating Nicolas Kiefer in straight sets.
In 2006, the Swede struggled through the season after suffering an eye injury early in the season. The highlights of the season were a 4th round at the Australian Open (where he lost to Ivan Ljubičić), his first doubles title in Båstad, Sweden with countryman Jonas Björkman, and a final in St. Petersburg (lost to Mario Ančić), where he was the defending champion.
At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics he reached the doubles final with Simon Aspelin, where he lost against the Swiss team of Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka in 4 sets. Johansson's final major appearance was the 2008 US Open, where he lost in the first round to Ernests Gulbis.
As of 6 March 2009, he has an 18–15 career Davis Cup record (17–12 in singles) in 17 ties, having played for Sweden every year other than 2003 (when he was out of action for the entire season) since 1998, and a 356–292 career overall.
He announced his retirement in June 2009 after a 15-year career.
Personal life His idol while growing up was Mats Wilander, who was the captain of Swedish Davis Cup team. He is also a keen player of golf and floorball, and a fan of ice hockey. He scored two goals and assisted on another in 6–5 win by ATP Stars over National Hockey League Players in an annual street hockey challenge in Montreal in 2001. He married Gisella Kaltenecker on 3 December 2005.
Equipment He is sponsored by Dunlop Sport for racquets and apparel, and Adidas for shoes. He uses a heavily modified Dunlop Pro Revelation racquet 'paintjobbed' to look like the current Dunlop 4D Aerogel 500 racquet.
Significant finals
Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 title) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 2002 Australian Open Hard Marat Safin 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
ATP Masters Series finals
Singles: 1 (1 title) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1999Canada Masters Hard Yevgeny Kafelnikov 1–6, 6–3, 6–3
Olympics
Doubles: 1 (1 Silver) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreSilver2008Beijing OlympicsHard Simon Aspelin Roger Federer Stan Wawrinka3–6, 4–6, 7–6 (7–4) , 3–6
ATP career finals
Singles: 14 (9 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (1–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (7–5) Finals by surface Hard (4–2) Clay (0–0) Grass (2–1) Carpet (3–2)
ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Mar 1997 Copenhagen, Denmark Carpet (i) Martin Damm 6–4, 3–6, 6–2Win 2–0 Mar 1997 St. Petersburg, Russia Carpet (i) Renzo Furlan 6–3, 6–4Loss 2–1 Mar 1998 Rotterdam, Netherlands Carpet (i) Jan Siemerink 6–7(2–7), 2–6Loss 2–2 Nov 1998 Stockholm, Sweden Hard (i) Todd Martin 3–6, 4–6, 4–6Win 3–2 Aug 1999 Montreal, Canada Hard Yevgeny Kafelnikov 1–6, 6–3, 6–3Win 4–2 Nov 2000 Stockholm, Sweden Hard (i) Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6–2, 6–4, 6–4Win 5–2 Jun 2001 Halle, Germany Grass Fabrice Santoro 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–2Win 6–2 Jun 2001 Nottingham, UK Grass Harel Levy 7–5, 6–3Win 7–2 Jan 2002 Australian Open, Australia Hard Marat Safin 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)Loss 7–3 Jun 2004 Nottingham, UK Grass Paradorn Srichaphan 6–1, 6–7(4–7), 3–6Win 8–3 Oct 2004 Stockholm, Sweden Hard (i) Andre Agassi 3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4)Win 9–3 Oct 2005 St. Petersburg, Russia Carpet (i) Nicolas Kiefer 6–4, 6–2Loss 9–4 Oct 2006 St. Petersburg, Russia Carpet (i) Mario Ančić 5–7, 6–7(2–7)Loss 9–5 Oct 2007 Stockholm, Sweden Hard (i) Ivo Karlović 3–6, 6–3, 1–6
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)Summer Olympics (0–1) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0) Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)
ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Jul 2006 Båstad, Sweden Clay Jonas Björkman Christopher Kas Oliver Marach 6–3, 4–6, [10–4]Loss 1–1 Aug 2008 Summer Olympics, China Hard Simon Aspelin Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka 3–6, 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 3–6
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 4 (3–1) LegendATP Challenger (3–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Jerusalem, IsraelChallengerHard Patrick Baur6–4, 7–6Win2–0Napoli, ItalyChallengerClay Frédéric Vitoux6–0, 6–0Loss2–1Wolfsburg, GermanyChallengerCarpet Gianluca Pozzi6–4, 6–7, 6–7Win3–1Binghamton, United StatesChallengerHard Dušan Vemić6–4, 7–6(9–7)
Doubles: 3 (2–1) LegendATP Challenger (2–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (2–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Lillehammer, NorwayChallengerClay Lars-Anders Wahlgren Andrew Ilie Todd Larkham3–6, 6–3, 6–3Win2–0Tampere, FinlandChallengerClay Mårten Renström Emanuel Couto Bernardo Mota6–3, 6–3Loss2–1East London, South AfricaChallengerHard Stefan Koubek Jonas Björkman Kevin Ullyett2–6, 2–6
Performance timelines
Singles
Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics.
Professional CareerTournament19931994199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009SRW–LGrand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenA1RA2R2R1R1R2R3RWA1R4R4R2R1RA1 / 1319–12French OpenAQ11R2R1R1RA2R1R2RAA2R1R1R1RA0 / 114–11WimbledonAAA4R2R3R2R4R2R1RA3RSF1R1R2RA0 / 1219–12US OpenAQ2A2R1RQFAQF4RAA3R2R1R3R1RA0 / 1017–10Win–loss0–00–10–16–42–46–41–29–46–48–20–04–310–43–43–41–40–01 / 4659–45Year-end championshipsTennis Masters CupDid not qualifyRRDid not qualify0 / 10–1ATP World Tour Masters 1000Indian Wells MastersAAAAAA2R2R2R1RA2R2RA3R2RA0 / 87–8Miami MastersAAAAAA2R1R4R4RA1RQFA2R3RQ10 / 810–8Monte-Carlo MastersAAAA1R1R1R1R1RQFAA1RA1RAA0 / 83–8Hamburg MastersAAAAAA1R1RQF2RAA1R1RAANMS0 / 64–6Rome MastersAAAA2R1R1R1R1R1RAA2R2RAAA0 / 83–8Canada MastersAAAAAAW2R2R2RASF2R3RA2RA1 / 817–7Cincinnati MastersAAAA2RQF1R1R1R1RA2R1R1RA1RA0 / 105–10Madrid MastersNot Held3RAA3RAAAA0 / 22–2Stuttgart MastersAAAA1R3R1R2R2RNot Held0 / 53–5Paris MastersAAAA2R2R1RAQF3RA1R3R2RQ2AA0 / 87–8Win–loss0–00–00–00–03–56–57–83–89–99–90–06–57–94–53–34–40–01 / 7161–70Career statisticsFinals0000221121021110014Titles000020112101100009Hardcourt Win–loss0–00–10–113–1015–1324–1316–1317–1726–1617–120–019–1319–145–719–1410–120–0200–156 Clay Win–loss0–00–10–14–51–62–61–71–54–57–70–01–28–61–64–53–70–037–69Grass Win–loss0–00–00–04–21–34–31–13–311–12–20–06–310–30–30–32–30–046–30Carpet Win–loss2–10–01–17–415–515–94–41–15–33–30–03–39–24–24–20–01–174–41Overall win–loss2–10–21–328–2132–2745–3122–2522–2646–2529–240–029–2148–2510–1827–2415–221–1357–296Win %67%0%25%57%54%59%47%46%65%55%–58%66%36%53%41%50%54.67%Year-end ranking42248611760391739391814–30137162136601
Doubles Tournament19981999200020012002200320042005200620072008SRW–LWin%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAA1RAAAAA1R2R0 / 31–3French OpenAAAAAAAA2R1RA0 / 21–2WimbledonAAAAAA2RAA3R2R0 / 34–3US OpenAAAAAA1R3R2R2R1R0 / 54–5Win–loss0–00–00–00–10–00–01–22–12–23–42–30 / 1310–13Olympic GamesSummer OlympicsNHANot Held1RNot HeldF0 / 24–2ATP World Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsAA2RA1RAA1RAAA0 / 31–3MiamiAAQ22RAAA1RAAA0 / 21–2Monte Carlo1RAAQ11RA1RAAAA0 / 30–3HamburgAAAA2RAA1R1RAA0 / 31–3RomeA2R2R1R2RAA1RAAA0 / 53–5MadridNot HeldAAA2RAAA0 / 10–1CanadaAQ2Q21RAAA2RAAA0 / 21–2CincinnatiAA2RAAAAAAAA0 / 11–1ParisAAAAAAASFAAA0 / 12–1Win–loss0–11–13–31–32–40–00–13–70–10–00–00 / 2110–21
Top 10 wins Season19931994199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009TotalWins0001062460023021027