Wayne Ferreira

Wayne Ferreira

Born: October 15, 1971
Age: 53
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Biography

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

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Career

As a junior player, Ferreira was ranked world 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 ATP doubles title in Adelaide in 1991.

1992 was Ferreira's breakthrough year on the tour. He started out by reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open. In June he won his first ATP 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 compatriot 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 is second (to Roger Federer's record 61) for the most consecutive Grand Slam tournament appearances in men's tennis. He participated in 56 consecutive Grand Slams between the 1991 Australian Open and the 2004 US Open. 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 rankings were world no. 6 in singles (in May 1995) and world n. 9 in doubles (in March 2001). His career prize-money earnings totalled $9,969,617.

Though Ferreira retired from the professional tour in 2005, he still plays on the Outback Champions Series senior tour. He finished both 2006 and 2007 fourth on points in that series. He is now residing in Lafayette, California. Ferreira is currently president and CEO of EcoloBlue, Life and Energy, an environmental and renewable resources corporation based in Miami, Florida and Lafayette, California.

He is one of few players with a positive record against Roger Federer.

Racket

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 them, using the 200G racket, until the end of his ATP career.

Career statistics

Olympic games

Finals: 1 (1 silver medal)
Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Silver 1992 Barcelona Olympics Clay Piet Norval Boris Becker
Michael Stich
6-7(5-7), 6-4, 6-7(5-7), 3-6

Masters Series finals

Singles: 3 (2-1)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1993 Indian Wells Hard Jim Courier 3-6, 3-6, 1-6
Winner 1996 Canada Hard Todd Woodbridge 6-2, 6-4
Winner 2000 Stuttgart Hard (i) Lleyton Hewitt 7-6(8-6), 3-6, 6-7(5-7), 7-6(7-2), 6-2

Doubles: 12 (6-6)

Outcome Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
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
4-6, 6-3, 1-6
Runner-up 1993 Rome Clay Mark Kratzmann Jacco Eltingh
Paul Haarhuis
4-6, 6-7
Runner-up 1994 Rome Clay Javier Sánchez Yevgeny Kalashnikov
David Rikl
1-6, 5-7
Runner-up 1994 Cincinnati Hard Mark Kratzmann Alex O'Brien
Sandon Stolle
7-6, 3-6, 2-6
Winner 1995 Hamburg Clay Yevgeny Kafelnikov Byron Black
Andrei Olhovskiy
6-1, 7-6
Runner-up 1999 Canada Hard Byron Black Jonas Björkman
Patrick Rafter
6-7, 4-6
Runner-up 2000 Rome Clay Yevgeny Kafelnikov Martin Damm
Dominik Hrbatý
4-6, 6-4, 3-6
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

Career finals

Singles: 23 (15-8)

Legend
Grand Slam (0-0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0-0)
ATP Masters Series (2-1)
ATP Championship Series (1-4)
ATP Tour (12-3)
Titles by Surface
Hard (11-4)
Grass (1-2)
Clay (1-1)
Carpet (2-1)
Outcome No. Date Championship Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 17 February 1992 Memphis, US Hard (i) MaliVai Washington 3-6, 2-6
Winner 1. 15 June 1992 Queen's Club, UK Grass Shuzo Matsuoka 6-3, 6-4
Runner-up 2. 20 July 1992 Stuttgart Outdoor, Germany Clay Andrei Medvedev 1-6, 4-6, 7-6(7-5), 6-2, 1-6
Winner 2. 31 August 1992 Schenectady, US Hard Jamie Morgan 6-2, 6-7(5-7), 6-2
Runner-up 3. 8 March 1993 Indian Wells, US Hard Jim Courier 3-6, 3-6, 1-6
Runner-up 4. 14 June 1993 Queen's Club, UK Grass Michael Stich 3-6, 4-6
Winner 3. 10 January 1994 Oahu, US Hard Richey Reneberg 6-4, 6-7(3-7), 6-1
Runner-up 5. 28 February 1994 Rotterdam, Netherlands Carpet Michael Stich 6-4, 3-6, 0-6
Runner-up 6. 20 June 1994 Manchester, UK Grass Patrick Rafter 6-7(5-7), 6-7(4-7)
Winner 4. 22 August 1994 Indianapolis, US Hard Olivier Delaître 6-2, 6-1
Winner 5. 19 September 1994 Bordeaux, France Hard Jeff Tarango 6-0, 7-5
Winner 6. 3 October 1994 Basel, Switzerland Hard (i) Patrick McEnroe 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(9-7), 6-3
Winner 7. 17 October 1994 Tel-Aviv, Israel Hard Amos Mansdorf 7-6(7-4), 6-3
Winner 8. 13 February 1995 Dubai, UAE Hard Andrea Gaudenzi 6-3, 6-3
Winner 9. 8 May 1995 Munich, Germany Clay Michael Stich 7-5, 7-6(8-6)
Winner 10. 16 October 1995 Ostrava, Czech Republic Carpet MaliVai Washington 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
Winner 11. 23 October 1995 Lyon, France Carpet Pete Sampras 7-6(7-2), 5-7, 6-3
Winner 12. 11 March 1996 Scottsdale, US Hard Marcelo Ríos 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
Runner-up 7. 22 July 1996 Washington, D.C., US Hard Michael Chang 2-6, 4-6
Winner 13. 26 August 1996 Toronto, Canada Hard Todd Woodbridge 6-2, 6-4
Runner-up 8. 19 April 1999 Tokyo, Japan Hard Nicolas Kiefer 6-7(5-7), 5-7
Winner 14. 6 November 2000 Stuttgart, Germany Hard (i) Lleyton Hewitt 7-6(8-6), 3-6, 6-7(5-7), 7-6(7-2), 6-2
Winner 15. 4 August 2003 Los Angeles, US Hard Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 4-6, 7-5

Singles performance timeline

Tournament 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 SR W-L
Grand Slams
Australian Open A A A 4R SF 4R 4R 2R 2R 4R 2R 4R 4R 3R QF SF 3R 0 / 14 39-14
French Open A A A 2R 3R 2R 1R 3R 4R 3R 3R 2R 3R 1R 1R 3R 1R 0 / 14 18-13
Wimbledon A A 2R 2R 4R 4R QF 4R 3R 3R 4R 1R 4R 1R 3R 1R 3R 0 / 15 29-15
US Open A A A 2R QF 4R 3R 1R 1R 4R 1R 1R 2R 1R 4R 2R 1R 0 / 14 18-14
Win-Loss 0-0 0-0 1-1 6-4 14-4 10-4 9-4 6-4 6-4 10-3 6-4 4-4 9-4 2-4 9-4 8-4 4-4 0 / 57 104-56
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells NME A 3R 2R F 2R QF QF 2R 2R 1R 2R 1R 1R 1R 2R 0 / 14 17-14
Miami NME A 4R 2R 2R 3R QF 2R 3R 4R 2R QF 2R 1R 3R 2R 0 / 14 16-14
Monte Carlo NME A A 3R A 2R A A 2R 2R A 2R 1R A 2R A 0 / 7 6-7
Rome NME A 3R 2R 1R 3R SF SF 1R 2R 2R 1R QF 3R 2R A 0 / 13 21-13
Hamburg NME A 1R 2R 1R A QF QF 3R 3R 3R 3R 1R 2R QF A 0 / 12 17-12
Canada NME A A A 3R SF 3R W 3R 1R 3R SF 1R 1R 1R A 1 / 11 19-10
Cincinnati NME A 3R 1R 3R 3R 3R QF 2R 2R 1R 1R 1R 3R 1R A 0 / 13 14-13
Madrid (Stuttgart) NME A A 2R 2R 3R 2R 2R A 2R 2R W QF A 2R A 1 / 10 13-9
Paris NME A 2R 2R 2R 2R SF 3R A 1R 1R 3R 1R A 1R A 0 / 11 5-11
Win-Loss N/A 0-0 9-6 5-8 9-8 11-8 17-8 18-7 5-7 9-9 6-8 19-8 6-9 5-6 7-9 2-2 2 / 105 128-103
Year End Ranking 315 229 173 41 12 22 12 9 10 42 26 54 13 62 39 26 128

Doubles: 24 (11-13)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 7 January 1991 Adelaide, Australia Hard Stefan Kruger Paul Haarhuis
Mark Koevermans
6-4, 4-6, 6-4
Winner 2. 25 March 1991 Miami, US Hard Piet Norval Ken Flach
Robert Seguso
5-7, 7-6, 6-2
Winner 3. 13 January 1992 Auckland, New Zealand Hard Jim Grabb Grant Connell
Glenn Michibata
6-4, 6-3
Runner-up 1. 6 April 1992 Johannesburg, South Africa Hard Piet Norval Pieter Aldrich
Danie Visser
4-6, 4-6
Runner-up 2. 18 May 1992 Rome, Italy Clay Mark Kratzmann Jakob Hlasek
Marc Rosset
4-6, 6-3, 1-6
Runner-up 3. 3 August 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona, Spain Clay Piet Norval Boris Becker
Michael Stich
6-7, 6-4, 6-7, 3-6
Runner-up 4. 17 May 1993 Rome, Italy Clay Mark Kratzmann Jacco Eltingh
Paul Haarhuis
4-6, 6-7
Winner 4. 9 August 1993 Los Angeles, US Hard Michael Stich Grant Connell
Scott Davis
7-6, 7-6
Runner-up 5. 15 November 1993 Antwerp, Belgium Carpet Javier Sánchez Grant Connell
Patrick Galbraith
3-6, 6-7
Runner-up 6. 16 May 1994 Rome, Italy Clay Javier Sánchez Yevgeny Kafelnikov
David Rikl
1-6, 5-7
Runner-up 7. 15 August 1994 Cincinnati, US Hard Mark Kratzmann Alex O'Brien
Sandon Stolle
7-6, 3-6, 2-6
Winner 5. 15 May 1995 Hamburg, Germany Clay Yevgeny Kafelnikov Byron Black
Andrei Olhovskiy
6-1, 7-6
Runner-up 8. 23 October 1995 Lyon, France Carpet John-Laffnie de Jager Jakob Hlasek
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
3-6, 3-6
Winner 6. 23 February 1998 Antwerp, Belgium Hard Yevgeny Kafelnikov Tomás Carbonell
Francisco Roig
7-5, 3-6, 6-2
Runner-up 9. 27 July 1998 Washington, D.C., US Hard Patrick Galbraith Grant Stafford
Kevin Ullyett
2-6, 4-6
Runner-up 10. 1 March 1999 London, UK Carpet Byron Black Tim Henman
Greg Rusedski
3-6, 6-7
Winner 7. 2 August 1999 Los Angeles, US Hard Byron Black Goran Ivanišević
Brian MacPhie
6-2, 7-6
Runner-up 11. 9 August 1999 Montreal, Canada Hard Byron Black Jonas Björkman
Patrick Rafter
6-7, 4-6
Runner-up 12. 25 October 1999 Lyon, France Carpet Sandon Stolle Piet Norval
Kevin Ullyett
6-4, 6-7, 6-7
Winner 8. 24 April 2000 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay Yevgeny Kafelnikov Paul Haarhuis
Sandon Stolle
6-3, 2-6, 6-1
Runner-up 13. 15 May 2000 Rome, Italy Clay Yevgeny Kafelnikov Martin Damm
Dominik Hrbatý
4-6, 6-4, 3-6
Winner 9. 19 March 2001 Indian Wells, US Hard Yevgeny Kafelnikov Jonas Björkman
Todd Woodbridge
6-2, 7-5
Winner 10. 14 May 2001 Rome, Italy Clay Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Nestor
Sandon Stolle
6-4, 7-6
Winner 11. 17 March 2003 Indian Wells, US Hard Yevgeny Kafelnikov Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
3-6, 7-5, 6-4

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 SR W-L
Grand Slams
Australian Open A A A 1R 2R 3R 1R A 3R A A 2R 3R 3R 2R A 2R 0 / 10 12-10
French Open A A A A 3R 2R A A A 1R A 2R QF 1R 2R A A 0 / 7 8-7
Wimbledon A A 3R SF 1R 3R SF A A A A 1R 2R 3R 2R A A 0 / 9 16-8
US Open A A 3R 2R 3R 3R SF A A QF 1R A SF 2R 3R A A 0 / 10 21-9
Win-Loss 0-0 0-0 4-2 5-2 5-4 7-4 8-3 0-0 2-1 3-2 0-1 2-3 10-4 5-3 5-4 0-0 1-1 0 / 36 57-34
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells NME A 1R QF 2R 2R 1R 2R 2R 1R 2R SF W 1R W A 2 / 13 20-11
Miami NME A W SF 2R 2R A A QF QF 1R 2R A 1R A A 1 / 9 16-8
Monte Carlo NME A A QF A 1R A A A 2R A W 1R A A A 1 / 5 7-4
Rome NME A 1R F F F A QF A 1R QF F W 2R QF A 1 / 11 28-10
Hamburg NME A 1R A 1R A W 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 1R SF A A 1 / 10 9-9
Canada NME A A A 1R 1R 1R A A A F 2R 1R QF A A 0 / 7 7-7
Cincinnati NME A QF 1R 2R F QF A 1R A A 2R 2R 2R A A 0 / 9 12-7
Madrid (Stuttgart) NME A 2R 2R 1R A QF A A A 2R QF QF A A A 0 / 7 7-6
Paris NME A 1R QF A A A A A A QF 2R A A A A 0 / 4 4-4
Win-Loss N/A 0-0 8-6 13-7 6-7 10-6 8-3 3-3 5-4 4-5 10-7 16-8 13-4 7-5 7-1 0-0 6 / 75 110-66
Year End Ranking 511 357 87 25 31 35 19 59 100 114 66 31 14 31 56 85 495

Senior Tour championships

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

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