Wayne Ferreira

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

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 third (to Roger Federer's record 65 and Feliciano López's 60 as of 2017 Australian Open) 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. Ferreira teamed up with Federer in the men's doubles at Wimbledon in 2001. They got to the third round and were due to face Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer (the eventual champions) before Federer withdrew to focus on his singles campaign.

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.

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

Singles: 23 (15–8)

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

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

• 2007– defeated Jim Courier 2–6, 6–3, [11–9] in the Stanford Championships
• 2007– defeated Aaron Krickstein 6–3, 6–3 in The Oliver Group Champions Cup