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Mark Woodforde is an Australian former tennis player born in Adelaide in 1965. A left-handed athlete, he competed professionally from 1984 until 2000. His career included participation in the men's doubles events at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. He also represented Australia in the Davis Cup.
Woodforde achieved significant success in doubles, compiling a record of 647 wins and 248 losses, compared to 319–312 in singles. He earned $8,551,305 in prize money during his career. He is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and was part of the partnership known as The Woodies, alongside Todd Woodbridge. He resides in Rancho Mirage and speaks English.
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Key facts
- Full name
- Mark Raymond Woodforde
- Country sports
- Australia
- Residence
- Rancho Mirage , California , U.S.
- Born
- ( 1965-09-23 ) 23 September 1965 (age 60) , Adelaide , South Australia , Australia
- Height
- 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
- Plays
- Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- $8,551,305
- Int tennis hof
- 2010 ( member page )
- Career record
- 319–312
- Highest ranking
- No. 19 (22 April 1996)
- Australian open
- SF ( 1996 )
- French open
- 4R ( 1997 )
- Wimbledon
- 4R ( 1988 , 1990 , 1997 )
- Us open
- 4R ( 1987 , 1988 )
- Grand slam cup
- QF ( 1996 )
- Tour finals
- W (1992, 1996)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- The Woodies
- Given name
- Mark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Adelaide
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Australia Davis Cup team
- Mass
- 88
- Image
- Mark Woodforde.jpg
- Height
- 188
- Residence
- Rancho Mirage
Show 11 more facts
- handedness
- left-handedness
- date of birth
- 1965-09-23
- playing hand
- left-handedness
- singles record
- 319–312
- doubles record
- 647–248
- Commons category
- Mark Woodforde
- prize money
- 8551305
- end of work period
- 2000-00-00
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- partner in business or sport
- Todd Woodbridge
- ranking
- 1
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark Raymond Woodforde, OAM (born 23 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is best known as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge.
Woodforde was born in Adelaide, and joined the men's professional tennis ATP Tour in 1984. Woodforde won four singles titles, including his hometown Adelaide tournament twice. His best singles result in a Grand Slam was reaching the semi-final of the Australian Open in 1996, his 38th Grand Slam singles tournament, which remains a record for the longest time taken to reach a maiden semi-final. Woodforde is best known for his doubles success, having won twelve Grand Slam doubles titles in his career – one French Open, two Australian Opens, three US Opens, and a record six Wimbledons. Eleven of these victories came as a member of the Woodies, and he won the 1989 US Open doubles with John McEnroe. He also won five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles – one French Open, two Australian Opens, one US Open, and one Wimbledon; thus making an overall total of 17 Grand Slam doubles titles. He reached the world No. 1 doubles ranking in November 1992.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark Woodforde” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.