Full name Hector O'Hara Wood Australian Open W (1920, 1923) US Open 4R (1922) Retired 1929 Turned pro 1913 (amateur tour) | Country (sports) Australia Wimbledon QF (1919, 1922) Grand slams won (singles) 2 Highest ranking No. | |
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Born 30 April 1891
Melbourne, Australia ( 1891-04-30 ) Plays Right-handed (1-handed backhand) Died 30 December 1961, Richmond, Australia Similar Gerald Patterson, Suzanne Lenglen, Margaret Court, Jana Novotná | ||
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. 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, leading the Trinity College team to a memorable victory against Ormond College in March 1911, where he made 167 not out.
On 3 August 1923 he married Australian tennis player Meryl Waxman.