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Todd Woodbridge

Todd Woodbridge
Woodbridge Wimbledon 2004.jpg
Full name Todd Andrew Woodbridge
Country (sports)  Australia
Residence Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Born (1971-04-02) 2 April 1971 (age 45)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro 1988
Retired 2005
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money US$ 10,095,245
Int. Tennis HoF 2010 (member page)
Singles
Career record 244–236
Career titles 2
Highest ranking No. 19 (14 July 1997)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 4R (1991, 1998)
French Open 3R (1992, 1996, 1998)
Wimbledon SF (1997)
US Open 3R (1991, 1994, 1995)
Other tournaments
Grand Slam Cup QF (1991)
Olympic Games 3R (1996)
Doubles
Career record 782–260
Career titles 83
Highest ranking No. 1 (6 July 1992)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open W (1992, 1997, 2001)
French Open W (2000)
Wimbledon W (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004)
US Open W (1995, 1996, 2003)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals W (1992, 1996)
Mixed doubles
Career titles 6
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open W (1993)
French Open W (1992)
Wimbledon W (1994)
US Open W (1990, 1993, 2001)

Todd Andrew Woodbridge, OAM (born 2 April 1971) is a retired Australian tennis player. He was born in Sydney and raised in Kogarah Bay by his parents, Kevin and Barbara. He has two older brothers, Gregory and Warren. He attended Lyneham High School, Canberra, then turned professional in 1988.

Woodbridge is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman. He is among the most successful doubles players of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (nine Wimbledons, three US Opens, three Australian Opens and one French Open), and a further six Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (three US Opens, one French Opens, one Wimbledon, one Australian Open). Additionally, he was a gold medalist with Woodforde at the 1996 Summer Olympics to complete a career Golden Slam. In total he has won 83 ATP doubles titles. Woodbridge reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in July 1992.

In 2002, he was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'.

In juniors, Woodbridge made the finals of the Jr Australian Open in 1987 and 1989, and Wimbledon in 1989.

He is best known as one of the top doubles players in the world for most of the 1990s and into the early 2000s (decade). His primary doubles partnerships were first with fellow Australian Mark Woodforde and later with Swede Jonas Björkman. Woodbridge and Woodforde are often referred to as "The Woodies" in the tennis world. Woodbridge also had a career high singles ranking of 19 after reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1997, beating Patrick Rafter before losing to Pete Sampras. He did however have the distinction of being one of the few players to beat Sampras at Wimbledon, knocking him out in the first round in 1989.


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