TENNIS PLAYER

Sven Davidson

1928 - 2008

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Sven Viktor Davidson (13 July 1928 – 28 May 2008) was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957, beating Ashley Cooper and Herbert Flam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sven Davidson has received more than 50,373 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Sven Davidson is the 93rd most popular tennis player (up from 109th in 2019), the 465th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 561st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Tennis Player.

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  • 52.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Sven Davidson ranks 93 out of 1,569. Before him are Nadia Petrova, André Gobert, Bob Hewitt, Jack Crawford, Gustavo Kuerten, and William Larned. After him are Helen Wills, Dora Boothby, Beals Wright, Andy Murray, Laurence Doherty, and Manuel Alonso Areizaga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sven Davidson ranks 270. Before him are Warren Oates, Paul Johnson, Raoul Servais, Amata Kabua, Levko Lukianenko, and Joan Martí i Alanis. After him are William Martínez, Karl Mai, Marcel Bozzuffi, Dušan Džamonja, Julien Guiomar, and Eve Meyer. Among people deceased in 2008, Sven Davidson ranks 155. Before him are Claude Abbes, Robert Prosky, Dee Dee Warwick, Dorival Caymmi, Yury Glazkov, and Stan Winston. After him are Sam Manekshaw, Stanley Kamel, Freddie Hubbard, Boris Yefimov, Robert Jonquet, and Edwin Ernest Salpeter.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven Davidson ranks 465 out of 1,879. Before him are Gösta Ekman (1890), Sven-Bertil Taube (1934), Jarl Kulle (1927), Henrik Sjöberg (1875), Richard Bergh (1858), and William Chambers (1723). After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Tor Aulin (1866), Eric Ericson (1918), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883), and Ingvar Wixell (1931).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Sweden

Among tennis players born in Sweden, Sven Davidson ranks 4. Before him are Björn Borg (1956), Mats Wilander (1964), and Stefan Edberg (1966). After him are Lennart Bergelin (1925), Anders Järryd (1961), Gunnar Setterwall (1881), Ulf Schmidt (1934), Jonas Björkman (1972), Wollmar Boström (1878), Robin Söderling (1984), and Joakim Nyström (1963).

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