Mikael Ymer: ATP Ranking, Stats & Next Gen Profile
Swedish talent whose career was cut short.
Mikael Ymer: Key Stats at a Glance
- Current ATP Ranking
- Unranked
- Career-High Ranking
- No. 50 (2022)
- Age
- 27 (born September 9, 1998)
- Height
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- Weight
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- Nationality
- 🇸🇪 SWE
- Birthplace
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- Turned Pro
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- Plays
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- 2026 Win-Loss
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- Career Titles
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- Career Prize Money
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- Next Gen Race Position
- Not eligible
- Next Gen Finals Appearances
- 1 (2019)
Next Gen Results
Career Trajectory
ATP Ranking over time · NG Finals marked with dotted lines
Mikael Ymer: Next Gen ATP Finals Record
Mikael Ymer has appeared at the Next Gen ATP Finals once, in 2019. Across those editions Ymer played 3 best-of-five short-set matches, winning 0 and losing 3 for a 0% match-win rate, and his best finish at the 21-and-under year-end event was group stage.
2019 — Milan, Italy: Ymer entered as the 8th seed and was drawn in Group B. He finished the week 0-3 in matches and exited as a group stage, collecting $50,000 in prize money. He did not record a win over a fellow qualifier that week. The title that year went to Jannik Sinner, who beat Alex de Minaur in the final. Others in the 2019 field included Alex de Minaur, Frances Tiafoe, Jannik Sinner, Casper Ruud and Miomir Kecmanovic.
Measured against the full alumni field, Ymer sits 36th of 49 qualifiers by career-high ranking. 14 of those 49 players have reached the ATP top 10 at some point in their careers, which is the clearest measure of how reliably the Next Gen ATP Finals identifies future tour leaders. Ymer has not yet joined that group, with his career-high of No. 50 leaving him outside it.
The event uses a shortened best-of-five format with sets to four games, which is why match records here look different from regular tour results. Full winners are listed on the champions page.
Career Highlights
- Competed at the 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan.
- Reached the ATP final in Gstaad in 2022.
- Reached a career-high World No. 50 in 2022.
- Recorded multiple Grand Slam third-round appearances during his best seasons.
- Announced his retirement from professional tennis in 2023.
Where Is Mikael Ymer Now?
Mikael Ymer no longer holds an ATP singles ranking; his career-high was World No. 50. He is 27 years old and no longer active on the ATP Tour.
Mikael Ymer showed promise at the Next Gen Finals but his career was derailed by anti-doping whereabouts violations in 2023, resulting in an 18-month suspension. A cautionary tale about the pressures young players face.
Ymer is no longer competing on the ATP Tour, having announced his retirement in 2023. His profile is kept here as part of the complete Next Gen ATP Finals alumni record rather than as an active-player tracker.
The ranking trail we track for Ymer starts at No. 170 in 2019, the season around his first Next Gen qualification, and peaks at No. 43 in 2023. The most recent point in that history has him at No. 146, a net gain of 24 places since we started tracking him. Ranking movement at this level is driven mostly by results at Masters 1000 and Grand Slam level, where the points on offer dwarf anything available on the Challenger Tour.
At 27, Ymer is past the 20-and-under cut-off for the Next Gen ATP Finals, so his place in the story is now as Swedish alumni rather than as a contender for a place in Italy. What his page tracks instead is the thing the tournament was built to predict: whether a strong week at the 21-and-under event translates into a durable top-level career.
Compare his trajectory with every other qualifier in the alumni tracker or track the current standings on the 2026 Next Gen race page.