Career
She plays from the baseline and her favorite surface is hard-court. Her ground strokes are excellent and she has a very effective two-handed backhand.
Up to the age of 20 she played football in If Centern. She is very popular in tennis club Söndrums TK (Halmstad).
Sofia Arvidsson became a professional tennis player in 1999 and debuted on the WTA Tour 2000th. She reached her first international success in 2001, when she played in the final of the junior single Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open. In May 2006, she was ranked by the WTA on 29 place in singles, which is her primary placement.
In 2006, she reached the third round of the Australian Open, where she lost to Anastasia Myskina. In February she won her first WTA tour title in the Tier III tournament in Memphis (Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup). She defeated Marta Domachowska in the final.
In Wimbledon 2008 at the first round Arvidsson slipped and twisted her knee so badly that she was forced to break the game. She risked missing the Beijing Olympics. But the knee healed quickly and Arvidsson raced in the Olympics.
Arvidsson participated in the Swedish Fed Cup team 2000-09. She has played 44 games for the team and won 21 of them.
In 2012 she won a WTA tournament in Memphis. She wanted to take part in the 2012 Olympics, but it did not happen she had not reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam or another world tournament.