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Mark Woodforde

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.

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Mark Raymond Woodforde
Australia
Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.
(1965-09-23) 23 September 1965Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
1984
2000
Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
$8,551,305
2010 (member page)
319–312
4
No. 19 (22 April 1996)
SF (1996)
4R (1997)
4R (1988, 1990, 1997)
4R (1987, 1988)
QF (1996)
647–248
67
No. 1 (16 November 1992)
W (1992, 1997)
W (2000)
W (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000)
W (1989, 1995, 1996)
W (1992, 1996)
5
W (1992, 1996)
W (1995)
W (1993)
W (1992)
		1996 Atlanta	Doubles	2000 Sydney	Doubles

	1996 Atlanta	Doubles
	2000 Sydney	Doubles

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.

He enjoyed the greatest success of his career when playing men's doubles with Woodbridge, combining his left-hand baseline play with Woodbridge's swift volleying reflexes at the net. They were the ATP Doubles Team of the Year four times, and all together the Woodies won 61 ATP doubles tournaments (Woodforde won 67 in his career).

Woodforde's other career highlights included a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Woodforde 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".

Woodforde played for the Australian Davis Cup Team in three Davis Cup finals, including teaming with Woodbridge to clinch the 1999 win over France in Paris to give Australia its first Davis Cup victory in 13 years.

Woodforde retired from professional tennis in 2000 after a Davis Cup final loss to Spain, and was appointed the coach of Australia's Fed Cup team in 2003. He has since provided commentary for tennis on Fox Sports and ESPN.

In January 2010 on Australia Day, the Woodies were inducted to the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame for their achievements in tennis. As a part of the induction ceremony, their bronzed statues were placed with other great Australian tennis players at Melbourne Park.

In 2014, alongside Woodbridge, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) presented him with its highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award, for his contributions to tennis.

By winning the 2000 French Open, Woodforde completed the career Grand Slam.

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1989	US Open	Hard	John McEnroe	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6–4, 4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win	1992	Australian Open	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Kelly Jones Rick Leach	6–4, 6–3, 6–4
Win	1993	Wimbledon	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	7–6, 6–3, 7–6
Win	1994	Wimbledon	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	7–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss	1994	US Open	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	3–6, 6–7(6)
Win	1995	Wimbledon	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Rick Leach Scott Melville	7–5, 7–6, 7–6
Win	1995	US Open	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Alex O'Brien Sandon Stolle	6–3, 6–3
Win	1996	Wimbledon	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Byron Black Grant Connell	4–6, 6–1, 6–3, 6–2
Win	1996	US Open	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	4–6, 7–6, 7–6
Win	1997	Australian Open	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	4–6, 7–5, 7–5, 6–3
Loss	1997	French Open	Clay	Todd Woodbridge	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek	6–7(12), 6–4, 3–6
Win	1997	Wimbledon	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7–6, 7–6, 5–7, 6–3
Loss	1998	Australian Open	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Jonas Björkman Jacco Eltingh	2–6, 7–5, 6–2, 4–6, 3–6
Loss	1998	Wimbledon	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	6–2, 4–6, 6–7(3), 7–5, 8–10
Win	2000	French Open	Clay	Todd Woodbridge	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	7–6, 6–4
Win	2000	Wimbledon	Grass	Todd Woodbridge	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–3, 6–4, 6–1

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1992	Australian Open	Hard	Nicole Provis	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Todd Woodbridge	6–3, 4–6, 11–9
Win	1992	US Open	Hard	Nicole Provis	Helena Suková Tom Nijssen	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win	1993	Wimbledon	Grass	Martina Navratilova	Manon Bollegraf Tom Nijssen	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1993	US Open	Hard	Martina Navratilova	Helena Suková Todd Woodbridge	3–6, 6–7
Win	1995	French Open	Clay	Larisa Savchenko-Neiland	Jill Hetherington John-Laffnie de Jager	7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–4)
Win	1996	Australian Open	Hard	Larisa Savchenko Neiland	Nicole Arendt Luke Jensen	4–6, 7–5, 6–0
Loss	1996	Wimbledon	Grass	Larisa Savchenko Neiland	Helena Suková Cyril Suk	6–1, 3–6, 2–6

Legend	Titles by surface
Grand Slam (12)
Tennis Masters Cup (2)
Olympic Gold (1)
ATP Masters Series (14)
ATP Championship Series (11)
ATP Tour (27)
Hard (36)
Clay (9)
Grass (10)
Carpet (12)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 1986	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Bud Schultz	6–4, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Win	2–0	Jan 1988	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Wally Masur	6–2, 6–4
Win	3–0	Jan 1989	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Patrik Kühnen	7–5, 1–6, 7–5
Loss	3–1	Oct 1989	Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Niclas Kroon	6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Loss	3–2	Aug 1992	Los Angeles, U.S.	Hard	Richard Krajicek	4–6, 6–2, 4–6
Loss	3–3	Nov 1992	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet (i)	Richard Krajicek	2–6, 2–6
Win	4–3	Feb 1993	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Ivan Lendl	5–4 ret.
Loss	4–4	Aug 1994	Los Angeles, U.S.	Hard	Boris Becker	2–6, 2–6
Loss	4–5	Oct 1998	Singapore	Carpet (i)	Marcelo Ríos	4–6, 2–6

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Mark Woodforde at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Mark Woodforde at the International Tennis Federation
Mark Woodforde at the Davis Cup (archived)
Mark Woodforde at Tennis Australia

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