"There is nothing more beautiful or more breathtaking than Stefan Edberg's tennis game when he is on," Alison Muscatine of the Washington Post (September 9, 1991) has declared. "Every stroke is poetic, e very movement lyrical." Edberg's quiet, dignified demeanor and graceful athleticism on the court betray none of the determination and desire that have brought the six-foot two-inch, 170-pound right-hander six Grand Slam championships. An aggressive serve-and-volleyer with a delicate touch at the net, Edberg has won fifteen doubles and more than thirty-five singles titles, in addition to helping Sweden capture three Davis Cup trophies. Edberg has held the number-one world ranking on several occasions, and he has been one of the most durable players on the tour, appearing in a record forty-six consecutive Grand Slam tournaments. At his best, Edberg can bewilder even the other top players in the game, as he makes the sport appear effortless by gliding in behind his serves to intercept his opponent's returns with deadly accurate volleys. "At the top of his game...," Joe Gergen wrote in New York Newsday (September 9, 1991), "Stefan Edberg makes tennis seem less a sport than an art form."

The complete article can be found on the Current Biography CD-ROM and in the 1994 Current Biography Yearbook of the H. W. Wilson Co. .
(See http://www.hwwilson.com/Currentbio/tennis.html#edberg).