Lew Hoad
Australian tennis player (1934-1994) · Australia · Tennis Players · Died at 59
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Something wrong?Lewis Alan Hoad was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur. He was a member of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup four times between 1952 and 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957.
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Hoad at age 15 competing at Kooyong in Inter State Tennis in 1949
Hoad in 1953
Ken Rosewall (left) and Hoad at the 1954 Davis Cup challenge-round match against the US at White City, Sydney
Hoad at Kooyong in 1954
Hoad (left) and Rosewall playing doubles at the Wimbledon Championships in the mid-fifties
Hoad and Robert Haillet (right) at the Professional Championship in Noordwijk, Netherlands in August 1961
Hoad and Jennifer Staley (right) at the Davis Cup Ball on 30 December 1953Teams 1
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Lewis Alan Hoad was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur. He was a member of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup four times between 1952 and 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957. He won the Kooyong Tournament of Champions in 1958 and the Forest Hills Tournament of Champions in 1959. He won the Ampol Open Trophy world series of tournaments in 1959, which included the Kooyong tournament that concluded in early January 1960. Hoad's singles tournament victories spanned from 1951 to 1971.
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