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| Full name | Hector O'Hara Wood |
|---|---|
| Country (sports) |  Australia |
| Born | 30 April 1891 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 3 December 1961 (aged 70)[1] Richmond, Australia |
| Turned pro | 1913 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1929 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 242–55 (81.4%)[2] |
| Career titles | 19[2] |
| Highest ranking | No. 7 (1922, A. Wallis Myers)[3] |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1920, 1923) |
| Wimbledon | QF (1919, 1922) |
| US Open | 4R (1922) |
| Doubles | |
| 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.[4] Pat was quick around the court, had textbook groundstrokes, sharp volleys and a solid serve.[5] He died in 1961, aged seventy in Richmond, Australia. His brother Arthur O'Hara Wood (1890–1918) 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,[6] leading the Trinity College team to a memorable victory against Ormond College in March 1911, where he made 167 not out.[7] In 1916, as a 23-year-old law student, he enlisted as an officer in the Australian Army. In 1919, as Captain Pat O'Hara-Wood, he and Bombardier Randolph Lycett won the doubles event at the Inter-Allied Games in Paris.
On 3 August 1923 he married Australian tennis player Meryl Waxman.[8][9]
- ^ "Death of Mr. Pat O'Hara Wood". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 4 December 1961. p. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2021 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Garcia, Gabriel (2018). "Pat O'Hara Wood: Career match record". thetennisbase.com. Madrid, Spain: Tennismem SAL. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
- ^ "Sports and Pastimes (Tennis: The Greatest Players)", Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, 2 November 1922.
- ^ Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0942257700.
- ^ "Pat O'Hara Wood". tennis.co.nf.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 September 1923. p. 17 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "LAWN TENNIS". The Examiner (DAILY ed.). Launceston, Tasmania. 11 August 1923. p. 15 – via National Library of Australia.