Ellis Ferreira (born 19 February 1970) is a former professional male
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player from South Africa. He played collegiately at the
University of Alabama
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, earning all-SEC and all-American honors. Ferreira competed at the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in men's doubles with
Wayne Ferreira (to whom he is unrelated).
He won two Grand Slam doubles titles, the Men's title at the
2000 Australian Open with
Rick Leach and the mixed doubles at the
Australian Open with
Corina Morariu in 2001. Ferreira was named the Senior Assistant Men's and Women's Tennis Head Coach at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, in July 2007. Ferreira is now the co-owner of the Eagleton/ Ferreira Tennis Academy on Longboat Key in Florida.
Career finals
Doubles (18 titles, 15 runner-ups)
Doubles performance timeline
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1970 births
Living people
South African male tennis players
Alabama Crimson Tide men's tennis players
South African expatriate tennis players in the United States
Australian Open (tennis) champions
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
South African people of Portuguese descent
Sportspeople of Portuguese descent
White South African people
Olympic tennis players for South Africa
Tennis players from Pretoria