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Wayne Ferreira

Country	South Africa
Residence	Lafayette, CA
Date of birth	September 15, 1971 (1971-09-15) (age 37)
Place of birth	Johannesburg
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	85 kg (190 lb; 13.4 st)
Turned pro	1989
Retired	2005
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$9,969,617
Singles
Career record	512–330
Career titles	15
Highest ranking	No. 6 (May 8, 1995)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	SF (1992, 2003)
French Open	4th (1996)
Wimbledon	QF (1994)
US Open	QF (1992)
Doubles
Career record	295–210
Career titles	11
Highest ranking	No. 9 (March 19, 2001)
Last updated on: August 17, 2007.

Olympic medal record
Men's Tennis
Silver	Barcelona 1992	Doubles Competition

Wayne Richard Ferreira (born September 15, 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former tennis player from South Africa.

As a junior player, Ferreira was ranked the world's No. 1 junior doubles player and No. 6 junior singles player. He won the junior doubles title at the US Open in 1989.

Ferreira turned professional in 1989. He won his first top-level doubles title in Adelaide in 1991.

1992 was Ferreira's breakthrough year on the tour. He started out by reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open. He then won his first top-level singles title at Queen's Club, London. His second singles title came just a few weeks later at Schenectady, New York. He also teamed-up with Piet Norval to win the men's doubles Silver Medal for South Africa at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

After a quieter year in 1993 in which he didn't win any singles titles, Ferreira came back strongly in 1994 to win a career-best five singles titles. He the won another four events in 1995.

The biggest titles of Ferreira's career came at Toronto in 1996 and Stuttgart in 2000 (both Tennis Masters Series events).

Ferreira teamed-up with Amanda Coetzer in 2000 to win the Hopman Cup for South Africa.

Ferreira holds the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam tournament appearances in men's tennis. He participated in 56 consecutive Grand Slams between 1991 and 2004. (Stefan Edberg held the previous record of 54.) Ferreira's best Grand Slam results came at the Australian Open – where he reached the semi-finals twice in 1992 and 2003.

During his career, Ferreira won 15 top-level singles titles and 11 doubles titles. His career-high world rankings were No. 6 in singles (in 1995) and No. 9 in doubles (in 2001). His career prize-money earnings totalled US$9,969,617.

Though Ferreira retired from the professional tour in 2005, he still plays on the Outback Champions Series. He finished both 2006 and 2007 fourth on points in that series. He is now residing in Lafayette, California.

Contents 1 Trivia 2 Major finals 2.1 Olympic finals 2.1.1 Doubles: 1 (1 silver medal) 2.2 Masters Series finals 2.2.1 Singles: 3 (2-1) 2.2.2 Doubles: 12 (6-6) 3 Career finals 3.1 Singles: 23 (15-8) 3.2 Doubles: 24 (11-13) 4 Senior Tour championships 5 External links

[edit] Trivia

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Ferreira is president and CEO of EcoloBlue, Life and Energy, an environmental and renewable resources corporation based in Miami, Florida and Lafayette, California. He can be seen on the home page of Ecoloblue's web site at http://www.ecoloblue.com

Ferreira played with and endorsed rackets made by Slazenger early in his career. He switched to Dunlop Sport very early in his career and stayed with Dunlop, using the 200G racket, until the end of his ATP career. He currently uses a Dunlop Aerogel racquet.

[edit] Major finals

[edit] Olympic finals

[edit] Doubles: 1 (1 silver medal)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Silver	1992	Barcelona Olympics	Clay	Piet Norval	Boris Becker Michael Stich	7–6(5), 4–6, 7–6(5), 6–3

[edit] Masters Series finals

[edit] Singles: 3 (2-1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1993	Indian Wells	Hard	Jim Courier	6–3, 6–3, 6–1
Winner	1996	Canada (Toronto)	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	6–2, 6–4
Winner	2000	Stuttgart	Hard (i)	Lleyton Hewitt	7–6(6), 3–6, 6–7(5), 7–6(2), 6–2

[edit] Doubles: 12 (6-6)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1991	Miami	Hard	Piet Norval	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	5–7, 7–6, 6–2
Runner-up	1992	Rome	Clay	Mark Kratzmann	Jakob Hlasek Marc Rosset	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up	1993	Rome	Clay	Mark Kratzmann	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	6–4, 7–6
Runner-up	1994	Rome	Clay	Javier Sánchez	Yevgeny Kafelnikov David Rikl	6–1, 7–5
Runner-up	1994	Cincinnati	Hard	Mark Kratzmann	Alex O'Brien Sandon Stolle	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
Winner	1995	Hamburg	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Byron Black Andrei Olhovskiy	6–1, 7–6
Runner-up	1999	Canada (Montreal)	Hard	Byron Black	Jonas Björkman Patrick Rafter	7–6, 6–4
Runner-up	2000	Rome	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Martin Damm Dominik Hrbatý	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	2000	Monte Carlo	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–3, 2–6, 6–1
Winner	2001	Indian Wells	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–2, 7–5
Winner	2001	Rome	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Daniel Nestor Sandon Stolle	6–4, 7–6
Winner	2003	Indian Wells	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 7–5, 6–4

[edit] Career finals

[edit] Singles: 23 (15-8)

Wins (15)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (2) ATP Championship Series (1) ATP Tour (12)

Titles by Surface Hard (11) Grass (1) Clay (1) Carpet (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	15 June 1992	London (Queen's Club), UK	Grass	Shuzo Matsuoka	6–3, 6–4
2.	31 August 1992	Schenectady, USA	Hard	Jamie Morgan	6–2, 6–7, 6–2
3.	10 January 1994	Oahu, USA	Hard	Richey Reneberg	6–4, 6–7, 6–1
4.	22 August 1994	Indianapolis, USA	Hard	Olivier Delaître	6–2, 6–1
5.	19 September 1994	Bordeaux, France	Hard	Jeff Tarango	6–0, 7–5
6.	3 October 1994	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Patrick McEnroe	4–6, 6–2, 7–6, 6–3
7.	17 October 1994	Tel-Aviv, Israel	Hard	Amos Mansdorf	7–6, 6–3
8.	13 February 1995	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Andrea Gaudenzi	6–3, 6–3
9.	8 May 1995	Munich, Germany	Clay	Michael Stich	7–5, 7–6
10.	16 October 1995	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Carpet	MaliVai Washington	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
11.	23 October 1995	Lyon, France	Carpet	Pete Sampras	7–6, 5–7, 6–3
12.	11 March 1996	Scottsdale, USA	Hard	Marcelo Ríos	2–6, 6–3, 6–3
13.	26 August 1996	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	6–2, 6–4
14.	6 November 2000	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Lleyton Hewitt	7–6, 3–6, 6–7, 7–6, 6–2
15.	4 August 2003	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Lleyton Hewitt	6–3, 4–6, 7–5

Runner-ups (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	17 February 1992	Memphis, USA	Hard (i)	MaliVai Washington	6–3, 6–2
2.	20 July 1992	Stuttgart Outdoor, Germany	Clay	Andrei Medvedev	6–1, 6–4, 6–7, 2–6, 6–1
3.	8 March 1993	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Jim Courier	6–3, 6–3, 6–1
4.	14 June 1993	London (Queen's Club), UK	Grass	Michael Stich	6–3, 6–4
5.	28 February 1994	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet	Michael Stich	4–6, 6–3, 6–0
6.	20 June 1994	Manchester, UK	Grass	Patrick Rafter	7–6, 7–6
7.	22 July 1996	Washington D.C., USA	Hard	Michael Chang	6–2, 6–4
8.	19 April 1999	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Nicolas Kiefer	7–6, 7–5

[edit] Doubles: 24 (11-13)

Wins (11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	7 January 1991	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Stefan Kruger	Paul Haarhuis Mark Koevermans	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
2.	25 March 1991	Miami, USA	Hard	Piet Norval	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	5–7, 7–6, 6–2
3.	13 January 1992	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Jim Grabb	Grant Connell Glenn Michibata	6–4, 6–3
4.	9 August 1993	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Michael Stich	Grant Connell Scott Davis	7–6, 7–6
5.	15 May 1995	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Byron Black Andrei Olhovskiy	6–1, 7–6
6.	23 February 1998	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
7.	2 August 1999	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Byron Black	Goran Ivanišević Brian MacPhie	6–2, 7–6
8.	24 April 2000	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–3, 2–6, 6–1
9.	19 March 2001	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–2, 7–5
10.	14 May 2001	Rome, Italy	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Daniel Nestor Sandon Stolle	6–4, 7–6
11.	17 March 2003	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 7–5, 6–4

Runner-ups (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	6 April 1992	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Piet Norval	Pieter Aldrich Danie Visser	6–4, 6–4
2.	18 May 1992	Rome, Italy	Clay	Mark Kratzmann	Jakob Hlasek Marc Rosset	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
3.	3 August 1992	Summer Olympics, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Piet Norval	Boris Becker Michael Stich	7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 6–3
4.	17 May 1993	Rome, Italy	Clay	Mark Kratzmann	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	6–4, 7–6
5.	15 November 1993	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Javier Sánchez	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	6–3, 7–6
6.	16 May 1994	Rome, Italy	Clay	Javier Sánchez	Yevgeny Kafelnikov David Rikl	6–1, 7–5
7.	15 August 1994	Cincinnati, USA	Hard	Mark Kratzmann	Alex O'Brien Sandon Stolle	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
8.	23 October 1995	Lyon, France	Carpet	John-Laffnie De Jager	Jakob Hlasek Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–3, 6–3
9.	27 July 1998	Washington D.C., USA	Hard	Patrick Galbraith	Grant Stafford Kevin Ullyett	6–2, 6–4
10.	1 March 1999	London, United Kingdom	Carpet	Byron Black	Tim Henman Greg Rusedski	6–3, 7–6
11.	9 August 1999	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Byron Black	Jonas Björkman Patrick Rafter	7–6, 6–4
12.	25 October 1999	Lyon, France	Carpet	Sandon Stolle	Piet Norval Kevin Ullyett	4–6, 7–6, 7–6
13.	15 May 2000	Rome, Italy	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Martin Damm Dominik Hrbatý	6–4, 4–6, 6–3

[edit] Senior Tour championships

• 2007- defeated Jim Courier 2-6, 6-3, 11-9 (TB) in the Stanford Championships
• 2007- defeated Aaron Krickstein 6-3, 6-3 in The Oliver Group Champions Cup

[edit] External links

• Wayne Ferreira at the Association of Tennis Professionals