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🇸🇪 SWE · Right-handed · b. 1955-05-06

Douglas Palm

Active 1972–1979 · best rank seen: 136

16–45
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550
Career summary

Douglas Palm of Sweden is a former right-handed player who competed on the ATP tour from 1972 to 1979. He finished with a career match record of 16–45 (26.2%). His strongest surface by win rate was hard courts, where he went 8–16 (33%). His best three-year stretch came in 1976–1978, and he reached a peak Elo rating of 1660.

Hard
8–16 (33.3%)
Clay
5–17 (22.7%)
Grass
1–6 (14.3%)
Carpet
2–6 (25.0%)

Grand Slam record

'77'78
Australian Open 2R
Roland Garros
Wimbledon 2R 1R
US Open

Season by season

Peak window 1976–1978 116 232 1972: 5 pts 1973: 5 pts 1974: 50 pts 1975: 80 pts 1976: 80 pts 1977: 215 pts 1978: 105 pts 1979: 10 pts 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Gold band: best three-year window (1976–1978).

Elo over time

1400 1500 1600 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 1660.

Match results

Methodology

Titles include Slams, Masters, Tour Finals, 500s, 250s, legacy tour events and Olympic gold; Davis Cup is excluded, and walkovers are excluded from all win–loss records. GOAT points value every round reached, scaled per tier (Slam title 2000 anchor; ranking includes Slam champions only, but every player's points are shown here). Elo is a chess-style rating over the full match history (K = 250/(n+5)^0.4); the timeline shows pre-match ratings, sampled. The gold band on the season chart marks the best three-consecutive-year window.