Reino Nyyssönen Explained

Reino Nyyssönen
Birth Date:12 February 1935
Death Date:January 2023 (aged 87)
Plays:Right-handed
Wimbledonresult:2R (1960, 1962)
Usopenresult:4R (1962)
Wimbledonmixedresult:QF (1961)

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

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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Notes and References

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