Career
As a junior player, Ferreira was ranked world northern 1 junior doubles player and northern 6 junior singles player.
Ferreira turned professional in 1989.
1992 was Ferreira"s breakthrough year on the tour. He started out by reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open.
His second singles title came just a few weeks later at Schenectady, New New York The biggest titles of Ferreira"s career came at Toronto in 1996 and Stuttgart in 2000 (both Tennis Masters Series events).
Ferreira is second (to Roger Federer"s record 61) for the most consecutive Grand Slam tournament appearances in men"s tennis.
He participated in 56 consecutive Grand Slams between the 1991 Australian Open and the 2004 United States Open. Ferreira"s best Grand Slam results came at the Australian Open – where he reached the semi-finals twice in 1992 and 2003. His career-high rankings were world northern
6 in singles (in May 1995) and world n.
9 in doubles (in March 2001). His career prize-money earnings totalled $9,969,617.
Though Ferreira retired from the professional tour in 2005, he still plays on the Outback Champions Series senior tour. He finished both 2006 and 2007 fourth on points in that series.
He is now residing in Lafayette, California.
Ferreira is currently president and Chief Executive Officer of EcoloBlue, Life and Energy, an environmental and renewable resources corporation based in Miami, Florida and Lafayette, California. He is one of few players with a positive record against Roger Federer. 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 Association of Tennis Professionals career.