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Patrick Rafter
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Australian tennis player
Film & TV
Known for
- Goran's Way — Himself2013
- Wimbledon 2011 Official Film — Self2011
- David Tench Tonight2006
- Open Access — Self2004
via TMDB
Key facts
- Full name
- Patrick Michael Rafter
- Country sports
- Australia
- Residence
- Broken Head, New South Wales , Australia
- Born
- ( 1972-12-28 ) 28 December 1972 (age 53) , Mount Isa , Queensland , Australia
- Height
- 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
- Retired
- 2003 (last match November 2001)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- US$ 11,133,128
- Int tennis hof
- 2006 ( member page )
- Career record
- 358–191 (65.2%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (26 July 1999)
- Australian open
- SF ( 2001 )
- French open
- SF ( 1997 )
- Wimbledon
- F ( 2000 , 2001 )
- Us open
- W ( 1997 , 1998 )
- Tour finals
- RR ( 1997 , 2001 )
- Grand slam cup
- F ( 1997 )
- Olympic games
- 2R ( 2000 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Patrick
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Mount Isa
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Participant in
- 2000 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Australia Davis Cup team
- Mass
- 86
- Image
- Pat Rafter AO party 15.png
- Height
- 185
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- Commons category
- Pat Rafter
- date of birth
- 1972-12-28
- handedness
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 358–191
- doubles record
- 214–111
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- birth name
- Patrick Michael Rafter
- prize money
- 11133128
- ranking
- 6
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- end of work period
- 2002-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Patrick Michael Rafter (born 28 December 1972) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for one week in 1999, and world No. 6 in doubles. Rafter won eleven ATP Tour-level singles titles, including two majors at the 1997 and 1998 US Opens, as well as two Masters titles. He was also the runner-up at Wimbledon in 2000 and 2001. In doubles, Rafter won ten titles, including a major at the 1999 Australian Open partnering Jonas Björkman, and two Masters titles.
Rafter became the first man in the Open Era to win the Canada Masters, Cincinnati Masters and the US Open in the same year, a feat repeated only by Andy Roddick in 2003, and Rafael Nadal in 2013. Rafter is the third man in the Open Era to reach at least the semifinals of every major in both singles and doubles, after Rod Laver and Stefan Edberg, and remains the last man to date to accomplish this.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Patrick Rafter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.