1. Todd Woodbridge is among the most successful doubles players of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and a further six Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
24 Facts About Todd Woodbridge
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Todd Woodbridge was awarded the Medal of the Order of the Australia in the 1997 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as gold medallist at the Atlanta Olympic Games, 1996".
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In juniors, Todd Woodbridge made the finals of the Junior Australian Open in 1987 and 1989, and Wimbledon in 1989.
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Todd Woodbridge is best known as one of the top doubles players in the world for most of the 1990s and into the early 2000s.
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Todd Woodbridge had a career high singles ranking of 19 after reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1997, beating Michael Chang, Marcos Ondruska, Alex Radulescu, Patrick Rafter and Nicolas Kiefer before losing to Pete Sampras.
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Todd Woodbridge did however have the distinction of being one of only seven players to beat Sampras at Wimbledon, knocking him out in the first round in 1989.
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Todd Woodbridge is notable for being one of only 17 players in the Open Era to achieve a triple bagel, against Johan Ortegren at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships.
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Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge won a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and reached the final to win a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Todd Woodbridge then took on India's Mahesh Bhupathi as his new partner, who had just been dumped by Belarusian Max Mirnyi.
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Todd Woodbridge announced his retirement at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships after 17 years as a tennis professional and 83 ATP tournament doubles titles, an all-time record at the time now surpassed by the Bryan brothers.
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Todd Woodbridge was a member of the Australian Davis Cup Team, playing the most ties of any player.
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Todd Woodbridge became an ambassador for bowel cancer awareness group "Let's Beat Bowel Cancer".
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In 2008 and 2009, Todd Woodbridge aligned himself closely to the sailing community through his commitments at Hamilton Island Race Week hosting tennis clinics and wine tasting events.
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Todd Woodbridge served as the tournament director for the 2009 Australian Open legends event.
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In January 2011, Todd Woodbridge was confronted on court by Belgian player Kim Clijsters for comments he made via SMS to Rennae Stubbs alleging Clijsters was pregnant.
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Todd Woodbridge has been involved in other programs for Seven, including golf broadcasts.
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Later in 2018, it was announced Todd Woodbridge had been signed by the Nine Network for Wide World of Sports, namely to feature as part of their Australian Open, after winning the lucrative broadcast rights for six years, shaking-up Australia's sports broadcasting landscape for the first time in more than four decades, as well as The Ashes.
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Todd Woodbridge is currently a fill-in sport presenter on Nine News Melbourne.
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Todd Woodbridge has been a presenter on Victorian travel show Postcards since 2022 and has featured on various other network and local GTV-9 programming, such as Today and a Millionaire Hot Seat special focusing on Wimbledon.
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Todd Woodbridge had planned to compete in the 2021 Margaret Court Cup in Albury, but was prevented from doing so by domestic border closures.
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On 10 August 2023, reports emerged that Todd Woodbridge had been appointed as the host of an Australian version of Tipping Point Australia for the network, after Millionaire Hot Seat was axed on 4 August 2023.
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Todd Woodbridge was born in Sydney and raised in Woolooware by his parents, Kevin and Barbara.
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Todd Woodbridge attended Woolooware High School, then turned professional in 1988.
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Todd Woodbridge suffered a non-fatal heart attack in October 2022.