Ellis Ferreira

Ellis Ferreira
Nation:	South Africa
Birthday:	19th February 1970
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	86 kg
1st professional season:	1992
Resignation:	2003
Playing hand:	Left
Prize money:	$ 2,378,295
singles
Career record:	4: 8
Career title:	0
Highest ranking:	210 (October 3 1994)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	314: 201
Career title:	18th
Highest ranking:	2 (January 31, 2000)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ellis Ferreira (born February 19, 1970 in Pretoria ) is a retired South African tennis player .

Career

Ferreira won 18 double titles on the ATP Tour in his career (nine of them with Rick Leach ) and reached another 16 finals. His greatest successes were winning the Australian Open 2000 and reaching the final of the US Open in the same year, as well as winning the ATP Doubles Challenge 2002 (each with Rick Leach). In addition, Ferreira won the mixed competition of the Australian Open in 2001 alongside Corina Morariu .

He reached his highest position in the tennis world rankings in doubles with rank 2 in January 2000, in singles he only made it to number 210 in the world (October 1994).

Tournament victories

Legend

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup

ATP Masters Series

ATP International Series Gold

ATP International Series

Double

Title after covering

Hard Court (7)

Sand (4)

Grass (2)

Carpet (5)

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 23, 1995	Vienna (1)	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6: 4, 7: 5
2.	January 15, 1996	Sydney	Hard court	Jan Siemerink	Patrick McEnroe Sandon Stolle	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 1
3.	April 29, 1996	Monte Carlo Masters	sand	Jan Siemerink	Jonas Björkman Nicklas Kulti	2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
4th	January 13, 1997	Auckland (1)	Hard court	Patrick Galbraith	Rick Leach Jonathan Stark	6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 6
5.	February 24, 1997	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Patrick Galbraith	Rick Leach Jonathan Stark	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 1
6th	June 23, 1997	Nottingham	race	Patrick Galbraith	Danny Sapsford Chris Wilkinson	4: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6
7th	October 13, 1997	Vienna (2)	Carpet (i)	Patrick Galbraith	Marc-Kevin Goellner David Prinosil	6: 3, 6: 4
8th.	October 20, 1997	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Patrick Galbraith	Olivier Delaître Fabrice Santoro	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
9.	March 30, 1998	Miami Masters	Hard court	Rick Leach	Alex O'Brien Jonathan Stark	6: 2, 6: 4
10.	May 4, 1998	Atlanta (1)	sand	Brent Haygarth	Alex O'Brien Richey Reneberg	6: 3, 0: 6, 6: 2
11.	June 15, 1998	Hall	race	Rick Leach	John-Laffnie de Jager Marc-Kevin Goellner	4: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6
12.	May 17, 1999	Rome Masters	sand	Rick Leach	David Adams John-Laffnie de Jager	6: 7, 6: 1, 6: 2
13.	January 17, 2000	Auckland (2)	Hard court	Rick Leach	Olivier Delaître Jeff Tarango	7: 5, 6: 4
14th	January 31, 2000	Australian Open	Hard court	Rick Leach	Wayne Black Andrew Kratzmann	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6, 18:16
15th	April 17, 2000	Atlanta (2)	sand	Rick Leach	Justin Gimelstob Mark Knowles	6: 3, 6: 4
16.	October 29, 2001	Basel	carpet	Rick Leach	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7: 6, 6: 4
17th	November 5, 2001	Paris Masters	Carpet (i)	Rick Leach	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
18th	November 18, 2001	Bangalore	Hard court	Rick Leach	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6: 7 6 , 7: 6 2 , 6: 4, 6: 4

Mixed

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 28, 2001	Australian Open	Hard court	Corina Morariu	Joshua Eagle Barbara Schett	6: 1, 6: 3

Web links

• ATP profile of Ellis Ferreira (English)
• ITF profile Ellis Ferreira (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Ellis Ferreira (English)