now residing in Lafayette, California. Ferreira is currently president and CEO of EcoloBlue, Life and Energy, an environmental and renewable resources corporation based in Miami, Florida, and Lafayette, California. Ferreira is known for regularly causing upsets against top players. He is one of the few players with a positive record against 20 time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer. Ferreira teamed up with Federer in the men's doubles at Wimbledon in 2001. They got to the third round and were due to face Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer (the eventual champions) before Federer withdrew to focus on his singles campaign. In addition, Ferreira has a 5-6 head-to-head record against 14 time Grand Slam champion Pete Sampras, with Sampras breaking the tie by winning their final match at the 2002 Canadian Masters. He also holds a positive head-to-head record against multiple Grand Slam champions and former world no. 1 ranked players, including Patrick Rafter, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl and Björn Borg. Coaching Since 2020, Ferreira has been the coach of Frances Tiafoe and became his primary coach after Tiafoe parted ways with former coach Zack Evenden. Racket Ferreira played with and endorsed rackets made by Slazenger early in his career. He switched to Dunlop Sport very early in his career and stayed with them, using the 200G racket, until the end of his ATP career. Career statistics Olympic games Finals: 1 (1 silver medal) Masters Series finals Singles: 3 (2–1) Doubles: 12 (6–6) Career finals Singles: 23 (15–8) Singles performance timeline 1Held as Stockholm Masters until 1994, Essen Masters in 1995, Stuttgart Masters 1996–2001, Madrid Masters from 2002–08. Doubles: 24 (11–13) Doubles performance timeline Senior Tour championships 2007– defeated Jim Courier 2–6, 6–3, [11–9] in the Stanford Championships 2007– defeated Aaron Krickstein 6–3, 6–3 in The Oliver Group Champions Cup Top 10 wins References External links Hopman Cup competitors Olympic medalists in tennis Olympic silver medalists for South Africa Olympic tennis players of South Africa Tennis players from Johannesburg People from Lafayette, California South African expatriates in the United States South African male tennis players South African tennis coaches South African people of Portuguese descent Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics US Open (tennis) junior champions White South African people 1971 births Living people Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Alumni of Parktown Boys' High