His tennis is also entertaining and elegant and is more representative of the personality he has off court, which we should really expand on here. Jonas Bjorkman as a private person is an incurable entertainer. His take-offs of other players - Edberg, Becker, Jarryd, Sampras and others - are classics on the ATP tour. His friend Joe Labero has inspired him to come up with a few deadly magic tricks, something which his circle of friends will bear witness to. Jonas is also a walking store of more or less classic jokes fired at you when you least expect it. Not only that but he waltzes the night away for at least one dance act every year during the players show in Monte Carlo, where the artists consist of active tennis players.

But best of all, he likes practical jokes.
It's as if he can't stop himself doing own variations on " The Sting" and making prank calls and pretending to be somebody else. Having a lark is just way too tempting. His favourite "sting" was in 1998 when the national team was preparing for the Davis Cup final against Italy in Monte Carlo. Together with Nicklas Kulti Jonas fooled national captains Calle Hageskog and Anders Jarryd into believing that Prince Albert of Monaco had invited them all to dinner at the palace. Hageskog and Jarryd got dressed up to the nines. The whole charade held all the way up to the palace guards, who were not really impressed when doubles pairing Hageskog-Jarryd stated their business. Jonas and Nicklas Kulti then had to come clean and the whole team moved on to a restaurant in the vicinity instead and ate a good meal. A great start to a great evening! To crown it all off, Calle Hageskog earlier during the day had, with barely concealed pride, mentioned the Prince's invite in an interview with Radio Kronoberg. This in turn reached the ears of the TT(National News Service) team and in no time at all the news was all over the country….

Apart from this Jonas Bjorkman is vain:
Why otherwise would he treat himself to a perm every now and then, own at least 20 pairs of sunglasses, be enamoured with the romance of the James Bond thing and be crazy about clothes(Kenneth Cole, Boss, Tiger, J.Lindeberg)?

And pedantic? No doubt. His tennis colleagues say that you would never guess that there's anyone staying in his hotel room. The bed is always made. The socks are lined up in a row. The bag is always in the same place. But at least he's managed to stop folding dirty laundry....

Jonas now lives in Monaco - and he loves it: the climate, the people, the food, the attitude to life and of course, the casinos. Jonas bets on everything from horses to black jack and roulette whenever time allows.

Somewhere off there in the future he can see the end of his career approaching. Here he'd like to see himself as a mentor for younger talents. A dream of his is to be Davis Cup captain. He would also like to work in TV, hold lectures together with his mental advisor Johan Plate and in some way or other help wheelchair tennis to get attention and more sponsors.

But the road there is still many years off, many practical jokes, some perms and a committed shot at further enhancing a career that started with a bang and has then continued fantastically with amongst other things, 39 straight Grand Slam tournaments, a ranking as the world's best doubles player and Jarryd take-off artist.

Jörgen Kohlberg