Pat O'Hara Wood

Hector O'Hara Wood

Pat O'Hara Wood

Nickname:

Patient

Nation:

Australia

Birthday:

April 30, 1891

Date of death:

3rd December 1961

1st professional season:

1913

Resignation:

1929

Playing hand:

Right, one-handed backhand

singles

Highest ranking:

7th

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 2

Australian Open	S (1920, 1923)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	VF (1919, 1922)
US Open	4R (1922)

Double

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 5

Australian Open	S (1919-1920, 1923, 1925, 1929)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	S (1919)
US Open	-

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 1

Australian Open	HF (1926, 1929)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	S (1922)
US Open	-

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Hector "Pat" O'Hara Wood (born April 30, 1891 in St Kilda , Melbourne , † December 3, 1961 in Richmond , Melbourne) was an Australian tennis player .

He won the Australian tennis championships in the men's singles in 1920 and 1923 and in the men's doubles in 1919, 1920 and 1923. In 1920 he won the singles final over Ronald Thomas 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 8, 6: 1, 6: 3 and in 1923 O'Hara Wood defeated Bert St. John 6: 1, 6: 1, 6: 3 in the final .

On August 3, 1923, he married Meryl O'Hara Wood , also a successful Australian tennis player. His brother was the tennis player Arthur O'Hara Wood .

literature

Virginia O'Farrell: O'Hara Wood, Hector (Pat) (1891-1961) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Volume 11. Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1988, ISBN 0-522-84380-8 (English).

Web links

Commons : Pat O'Hara Wood - Collection of images, videos and audio files

ITF profile of Pat O'Hara Wood (English)
Davis Cup stats by Pat O'Hara Wood (English)

personal data
SURNAME	O'Hara Wood, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	O'Hara Wood, Hector (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	St Kilda , Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH	3rd December 1961
Place of death	Richmond, Melbourne