1. Wayne Richard Ferreira was born on 15 September 1971 and is a South African tennis coach and a former professional player.
18 Facts About Wayne Ferreira
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Wayne Ferreira won the junior doubles title at the US Open in 1989.
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Wayne Ferreira won his first ATP doubles title in Adelaide in 1991.
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Wayne Ferreira started out by reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open.
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Wayne Ferreira was defeated in the second round in the Olympic singles that year.
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Wayne Ferreira competed at the Olympics again in 1996, reaching the quarterfinals in both men's singles and men's doubles, with Ellis Ferreira as his partner.
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The biggest titles of Wayne Ferreira's career came at Toronto in 1996 and Stuttgart in 2000.
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Wayne Ferreira teamed up with Amanda Coetzer in 2000 to win the Hopman Cup for South Africa.
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Wayne Ferreira played in his third and final Olympic tournament that year; this time, competing only in singles and being defeated in the first round.
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Wayne Ferreira is the former record-holder for the most consecutive Grand Slam tournament appearances in men's tennis, having participated in 56 consecutive slams between the 1991 Australian Open and the 2004 US Open.
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Wayne Ferreira was known for regularly causing upsets against top players.
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Wayne Ferreira is one of the few players with a positive record against 20 time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer.
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Wayne Ferreira teamed up with Federer in the men's doubles at Wimbledon in 2001.
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Wayne Ferreira holds a positive head-to-head record against multiple Grand Slam champions and former world No 1 ranked players, including Patrick Rafter, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl and Bjorn Borg.
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Wayne Ferreira finished both 2006 and 2007 fourth on points in that series.
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Wayne Ferreira did a trial with Yosuke Watanuki during the 2025 Sunshine Double.
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Wayne Ferreira played with and endorsed rackets made by Slazenger early in his career.
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Wayne Ferreira switched to Dunlop Sport very early in his career and stayed with them, using the 200G racket, until the end of his ATP career.