Mikael Ymer Focuses on Present After Past Båstad Dispute

Two years after the notorious brawl, Mikael Ymer is back in Båstad. I feel ready to leave that behind me, he says to SVT.

» Published: July 14 2025

Mikael Ymer Focuses on Present After Past Båstad Dispute
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The 26-year-old Ymer enters the tournament on Tuesday when he meets the Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp in the first round.

Mikael Ymer has received a wildcard to the tournament after the 18 months long suspension for having breached the doping rules when he missed the residence reporting.

It was previously, summer 2023, that the noted and heated verbal altercation with the tournament management in Båstad occurred. Ymer declined a wildcard after, according to his own statement, being offered large amounts of money and said to the website Tennisportalen that ”they can shove their money up their ass”.

He does not want to comment on the altercation today.

I try to live in the present, I am glad that we could come to an agreement and in the end there is nothing that makes me happier than playing the Stockholm Open and also now here of course, he says to SVT.

Mikael Ymer, who was ranked as high as 50 in the world in the spring of 2023, is now down at place 618.

He has won one tournament at ITF level since his comeback in January.

William Rejchtman Vinciguerra, 18, was the first Swede in the singles tournament and he lost to Jesper de Jong, the Netherlands, with 3–6, 2–6.

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