Education
Lindstedt played college tennis in the United States, playing first at Fresno State University before following coach Peter Smith to Pepperdine University, where he completed his collegiate career.
Lindstedt played college tennis in the United States, playing first at Fresno State University before following coach Peter Smith to Pepperdine University, where he completed his collegiate career.
His biggest title has been the Australian Open with partner Łukasz Kubot. He also was a three-time Wimbledon finalist with former partner Horia TecăUniversity Early career While at Pepperdine, he teamed with Kelly Gullett in doubles competition.
They were runners-up at the 1998 National Collegiate Athletic Association individual competition at the University of Georgia, receiving All-America honors for the second year in a row.
The second came paired with Jordan Kerr in Tokyo, beating Frank Dancevic and Stephen Huss. In 2008. Robert was part of a team including Robin Söderling, Thomas Johansson, and coach Peter Carlsson who beat the Russian tennis team (of Dmitry Tursunov, Igor Andreev, and Mikhail Youzhny) 2–1 in the Allgemeine Rechtsschutz-Versicherungs-AG World Team Cup in Düsseldorf.
2012 Robert and Horia Tecău of Romania reached their third Wimbledon final in a row. Later, Lindstedt played with Daniel Nestor and reached the final in Barcelona on clay at their second tournament together.
Grand Slam finals = Doubles: 4 (1–3) Masters 1000 finals = Doubles: 2 (1–1) 1 Held as Hamburg Masters (outdoor clay) until 2008, Madrid Masters (outdoor clay) 2009–present.2 Held as Stuttgart Masters (indoor hard) until 2001, Madrid Masters (indoor hard) from 2002-2008, and Shanghai Masters (outdoor hard) 2009–present.
2007-2008 Lindstedt won two doubles titles in 2007, the first in Mumbai with Jarkko Nieminen against Indian Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. Lindstedt paired with Marc Gicquel to win the Washington tournament and was a semifinalist at the Association of Tennis Professionals Master Series event in Indian Wells with Richard Gasquet, in Tokyo with Jordan Kerr, and in Kitzbühel with Jürgen Melzer. They also defeated Alexander Peya of Austria and Bruno Soares of Brazil to win the Swedish Open. 2013 Robert and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia partnered during the first three months. They won Rotterdam together. Lindstedt scored his first win over the Bryan brothers with Nestor before they stopped playing together. 2014 Lindstedt and Lukasz Kubot of Poland won the 2014 Australian Open together after failing to win a match before the Grand Slam.
