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Wayne Ferreira - 2005
Wayne
Ferreira was born in 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 breakthourgh 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 then 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.
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.
Ferreira retired from the professional tour in 2005. He
is now residing in Berkeley, California.
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Africa
Berkeley, CA USA
September 15, 1971
Johannesburg, South Africa
5'7" (1.70 m)
130 lbs. (59 kg)
1989
U.S. $9,969,617
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15/11
6/9
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