Jonas is right-handed, his Dad left-handed. Probably their sparring over the years has contributed to the fact that Jonas has had better results against left-handed players on the circuit: 28 - 12.

Jonas grew up in Alvesta in Smaland but has played for Vaxjo TS for many years, just like Mats Wilander, Magnus Larsson and Janne Gunnarsson amongst others. He played a lot of various sports until the age of 15 and was actually better at hockey, but when the others grew up faster and began tackling the more and more gangly Bjorkman Jr. to pieces, he chose to put all his time into tennis.
That proved to be a good decision.
In fact, Jonas Bjorkman's career turned out to be just fantastic. Despite the fact that he had to fight so hard to get somewhere - not just against Dad Bjorkman.

Jonas is by and large a self-made man, so to say.
Many of the Swedish tennis players who've reached the absolute world elite have been supported at an early stage by the tennis association and the national team. Jonas Bjorkman became the best in Sweden without that kind of back-up.

He was consistently amongst the 10 best in his age bracket but didn't have any really big breakthroughs. Because of this he was never really in the reckoning. But his club Vaxjo TS has always given him their strong and committed support.

At the age of 18 Jonas won the Junior Swedish championship in Malmo. This was an important breakthrough resulting in his decision - in the same year - to try to play professionally. The big goal was: the ATP tour.

In 1992 Jonas Bjorkman climbed 550 (!) places in the rankings and finished the year at 350 in the ATP rankings.
In 1994 the really big breakthrough happened. As a doubles player Jonas won both the Masters finals and the Davis Cup final (against Russia) in a pairing with Jan Apell. He also reached his then most significant singles achievement when he knocked out his role model, world star Stefan Edberg, in the third round of the US Open by 6-4, 6-4, 6-0. In the quarter-final he met the German Michael Stich who proved too much to handle, but the result anyway meant that Jonas Bjorkman had taken the step into the world's elite of tennis players.

1997 is Jonas Bjorkman's so far most outstanding year. He reached a very high and consistent level with his trademark style of play: an attacking winning style where he used the court to the utmost and constantly put his opponents under pressure. He won three ATP titles (Auckland, Indianapolis and Stockholm Open), was the rock to depend on in the Davis Cup team that beat the US in Gothenburg and climbed to fourth position in the world rankings.

To date Jonas has won six ATP titles in singles (and reached four finals) and 42 in doubles. In Grand Slam tournaments he has reached the semi-final in the US Open in singles (1997), the quarter-final in Wimbledon (2003), the quarter-final in the US Open twice (1994, 1998) and the quarter-final in the Australian Open twice (1998, 2002). In doubles Bjorkman has won the Australian Open three times (1998, 1999, 2001), three times at Wimbledon (2002, 2003 and 2004), the US Open once (2003), and the French Open once (2005). He has also won three Davis Cup titles (1994, 1997, 1998) - only Pete Sampras can match Jonas record with four DC finals - as well as won over 11 million USD in total prize money. Furthermore, Jonas has been chairman for the player advisory board of the ATP.