(1972-12-28) 28 December 1972 (age 51) Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Height
185 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Turned pro
1991
Retired
2003 (last match November 2001)
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money
US$11,133,128
Int. Tennis HoF
2006 (member page)
Singles
Career record
358–191 (65.2%)
Career titles
11
Highest ranking
No. 1 (26 July 1999)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open
SF (2001)
French Open
SF (1997)
Wimbledon
F (2000, 2001)
US Open
W (1997, 1998)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals
RR (1997, 2001)
Grand Slam Cup
F (1997)
Olympic Games
2R (2000)
Doubles
Career record
214–111 (65.8%)
Career titles
10
Highest ranking
No. 6 (1 February 1999)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open
W (1999)
French Open
SF (1998)
Wimbledon
SF (1996, 1998)
US Open
SF (1996)
Patrick Michael Rafter (born 28 December 1972) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. He reached the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking on 26 July 1999. His career highlights include consecutive US Open titles in 1997 and 1998, consecutive runner-up appearances at Wimbledon in 2000 and 2001, winning the 1999 Australian Open men's doubles tournament alongside Jonas Björkman, and winning two singles and two doubles ATP Masters titles.
He became the first man in the Open Era to win Canada Masters, Cincinnati Masters and the US Open in the same year, which he achieved in 1998; this achievement has been dubbed the American Summer Slam. To date, only two players have followed this feat: Andy Roddick in 2003, and Rafael Nadal in 2013. Rafter is the third man in the Open Era to reach semifinals or better of every Grand Slam tournament in both singles and doubles, after Rod Laver and Stefan Edberg, and remains the last man to date to accomplish this. Rafter is also the only player to remain undefeated against Roger Federer with at least three meetings, though the meetings took place early in Federer's career. He is also the only player with a winning record over the Swiss on all the three main surfaces: hard, clay and grass.[2]
^"Patrick Rafter". atpworldtour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
^s.r.o., eHM. "Patrick Rafter vs. Roger Federer - The Ericsson Open - Miami - TennisLive.com". www.tennislive.net.
Professionals PatRafter at the International Tennis Federation PatRafter at the Davis Cup PatRafter at the International Tennis Hall of Fame PatRafter at Tennis...
main career statistics of Australian former professional tennis player PatRafter. All statistics are according to the ATP World Tour and ITF website. (W)...
clay and grass). The centre court PatRafter Arena, named in honour of the Australian tennis player Patrick Rafter, has a seating capacity of 5,500 (with...
played at Hong Kong in 1999, which Agassi won in three sets. Agassi and PatRafter played fifteen times with Agassi leading 10–5. The rivalry has been considered...
Retrieved February 10, 2021. "2000 Wimbledon final: Pete Sampras defeats PatRafter". Tennis Buzz. July 4, 2010. Archived from the original on May 18, 2016...
Hewitt won all matches in his group; with his round-robin victory against PatRafter, Hewitt secured the year-end world No. 1 ranking for the first time. Hewitt...
doubles title came in 1996 at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships with PatRafter. Cash established a reputation on the tour as a hard-fighting serve-and-volleyer...
one more time in 1999, this time losing in the fourth round to Patrick Rafter. Becker was most comfortable playing on fast-playing surfaces, particularly...
year. Pete Sampras won his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title, defeating PatRafter in the final. It was also his last Wimbledon title. Lindsay Davenport...
Philippoussis in the final. In doing so, he joined the likes of Björn Borg, Pat Cash and Stefan Edberg as the only singles players to win both the junior...
relatively unknown. Goran Ivanišević won the title, defeating 2000 runner-up PatRafter in the final in five sets. Ivanišević had previously been runner-up three...
Vera Zvonareva Guillermo Coria David Nalbandian Gabriela Sabatini Pat Cash PatRafter Peng Shuai Jana Novotná Albert Costa David Ferrer Juan Carlos Ferrero...
Mark Woodforde 1997: Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor 1998: Jonas Björkman / PatRafter 1999: Wayne Black / Sandon Stolle 2000: Alex O'Brien / Jared Palmer 2001:...
Australian politician Julia Gillard in 2004, and Australian tennis player PatRafter in 2013. Before construction, the site was surveyed to make sure endangered...
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