Wayne Ferreira

Wayne Richard Ferreira (b. September 15 1971, in
Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former
professional 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 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 quiter 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 Madrid
Masters|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 53.)
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.