Pat O'Hara Wood
File:Pat OHara Wood.jpg | |
Full name | Hector O'Hara Wood |
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Country (sports) | Australia |
Born | Melbourne, Australia |
30 April 1891
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Richmond, Australia |
Turned pro | 1913 (amateur tour) |
Retired | 1929 |
Plays | Right-handed (1-handed backhand) |
Singles | |
Career record | {{#property:P564}} |
Highest ranking | No. 7 (1922, A. Wallis Myers)[1] |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | W (1920, 1923) |
Wimbledon | QF (1919, 1922) |
US Open | 4R (1922) |
Doubles | |
Career record | {{#property:P555}} |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | W (1919, 1920, 1923, 1925) F (1924, 1926, 1927) |
Wimbledon | W (1919) F (1922) |
US Open | F (1922, 1924) |
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
Wimbledon | W (1922) |
Team competitions | |
Davis Cup | F (1922Ch, 1923Ch, 1924Ch) |
Hector "Pat" O'Hara Wood (30 April 1891 – 3 December 1961) was an Australian tennis player.
O'Hara Wood was born in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. He is best known for his two victories at the Australasian Championships (now the Australian Open) in 1920 and 1923.[2] He died in 1961, aged seventy in Richmond, Australia. His brother Arthur O'Hara Wood was also an Australian tennis player and won the 1914 Australasian Championships.
After attending Melbourne Grammar School, he entered Trinity College (University of Melbourne) in 1911, where he excelled at cricket as well as Tennis,[3] leading the Trinity College team to a memorable victory against Ormond College in March 1911, where he made 167 not out.[4]
On 3 August 1923 he married Australian tennis player Meryl Waxman.[5][6]
Contents
Grand Slams finals
Singles: 2 titles
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score | |
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Winner | 1920 | Australasian Championships | Grass | Ronald Thomas | 6–3, 4–6, 6–8, 6–1, 6–3 | [7] |
Winner | 1923 | Australasian Championships | Grass | Bert St. John | 6–1, 6–1, 6–3 | [7] |
Doubles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runners-up)
Mixed Doubles: 1 title
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
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Winner | 1922 | Wimbledon | Grass | Suzanne Lenglen | Elizabeth Ryan Randolph Lycett |
6–4, 6–3 | [12] |
References
- ↑ "Sports and Pastimes (Tennis: The Greatest Players)", Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, 2 November 1922.
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- ↑ James Grant, Perspectives of a Century (Melbourne: Trinity College, 1972), pp. 147-49.
- ↑ “Cricket—Trinity College Beats Ormond”, The Argus, 31 Mar. 1911, p. 4.
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External links
- ADB biography
- Pat O'Hara Wood at the Association of Tennis Professionals
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- Pat O'Hara Wood at the Davis Cup
- EngvarB from August 2013
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- ITF template using numeric ID
- Australasian Championships (tennis) champions
- Australian male tennis players
- Politicians from Melbourne
- Sportspeople from Melbourne
- Tennis people from Victoria (Australia)
- Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era)
- 1891 births
- 1961 deaths
- People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne)
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's singles
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
- Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles