[3] He and Gustavo Kuerten won the deciding doubles rubber over the Chilean pairing of Marcelo Ríos and Robinson Gamonal.

[4] Earlier in the year, Carlsson had partnered Rios in the French Open boys' doubles event and the pair made the semi-finals.

He defeated seventh-seed Grant Stafford at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, before exiting at the quarter-finals, then upset the man who had won that tournament, Jim Courier, in Atlanta.

[6] He also beat two top-100 players, Ramón Delgado and Lucas Arnold Ker, at a Challenger tournament that year, which was held in the city of his birth, Florianópolis.

With his team having already secured their World Group tie against Spain, Carlsson played a dead rubber match against Àlex Corretja, which he lost.