This week's Throwback Thursday from the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum delves into the achievements of one of the Woodies, Todd Woodbridge...

If you were asked to name a doubles player from the last 20 years that stood out above the rest, who would you pick? Chances are you thought of one of the players from the most successful doubles pairing of the 1990s and early 2000s – Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde.

Here at Wimbledon, the youngest member of this doubles duo holds the record for the most gentlemen’s doubles titles. Between 1993 and 2004, Todd Woodbridge won a record nine doubles titles – a record that was previously held by the Doherty brothers between 1897 and 1905.

Reaching a world No.1 ranking in July 1992, he won a total of 16 Grand Slam doubles titles and seven mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. One of these mixed double titles was at Wimbledon in 1994 with Helena Sukova. Overall, Woodbridge has won 83 ATP doubles titles; 61 of which were with his fellow Australian Mark Woodforde. Together, the duo won 11 Grand Slams, a Gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a Silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In 1999, they helped Australia to its first Davis Cup victory for 13 years.

Nicknamed ‘The Woodies’, their partnership teamed Woodbridge’s volleying reflexes and Woodford’s left handed baseline strategy to create a powerful force that was unrivalled! This successful partnership lasted until Woodforde’s retirement from professional tennis in 2000. However, Woodbridge found a new partner in Jonas Björkman – going on to win a further five Grand Slam titles – three of which were at Wimbledon. He retired from professional tennis in 2005. The museum holds one of Woodbridge’s Championship outfits from this later pairing, dating from 2003. The outfit includes his shirt, shorts, wristband and socks.

A year later, he joined forces with Woodforde again to compete in the 35 and Over Gentlemen’s Invitation Doubles (the last year before it changed its name to the Invitation and Senior Invitation Doubles), winning 6-3 7-6 (7-3) – proving that they still had that winning spark.

Today, Woodbridge can be found in the commentary box for Wimbledon's Australian broadcast partner, Channel 7,  at Wimbledon and the Australian Open.

While the Bryan brothers are fast closing them down, no one doubles team or player has yet to rival the success of Todd Woodbridge or the pairing of ‘The Woodies’ at Wimbledon. How long will it last?

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