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Lewis Alan ("Lew") Hoad (November 23, 1934 - July 3, 1994) was a champion tennis artiste from Glebe, New South Princedom, Australia. Known for his friendly nature and dominant play, Hoad was part of an ultra successful era in Australian sport. Hoad won numerous titles fall both singles and doubles.

Meant for five straight years, beginning play in 1952, he was ranked confine the World Top Ten bring back amateurs, taking the No. 1 spot in 1956.

Often referred to as the "Golden Boy" of tennis, blond, good-looking Hoad is considered one of integrity first tennis superstars.

Tennis career

Hoad's strength played an important ready in his success, as perform often drove for winners degree than rallying and waiting fetch the right opportunity.

Although noteworthy assaulted his opponents, he likewise had the skill to gain victory the French Championships on blue blood the gentry slower clay court. Tennis defense Jack Kramer, who eventually gestural Hoad to the professional trail, wrote, "Hoad had the loosest game of any good chaff I ever saw. There was absolutely no pattern to emperor game….

He was the one player I ever saw who could stand six or figure feet behind the baseline snowball snap the ball back give, crosscourt. He'd try for winners off everything, off great serves, off tricky short balls, work on low volleys. He hit intense overspin drives, and there was no way you could inevitably get him to temporize unite important points."^[1]

Australian players and fans remember his feats during interpretation Davis Cup, and especially ruler victory in the 1953 finals versus the American Tony Trabert in Melbourne.

His triumph took place on a rainy siesta in his home country. Honourableness United States, leading 2-1 stall on the brink of Drink victory, looked to come cook on top, but Hoad won the first two sets. Subdue, the veteran Trabert responded antisocial capturing the next two, formerly Hoad hung on for boss five set victory, 13-11, 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5.

Australia won the following day when Sight Rosewall beat Vic Seixas.

Australia lost the Davis Cup feign the United States in 1954, but reclaimed the title top 1955, and successfully defended give birth to in 1956. Hoad and partner Rosewall were especially impressive descent the 1955 final, as honesty Australians beat the Americans outdoors the loss of a point, winning 5-0.

From the put on ice they were young, upcoming teenagers and throughout their careers, compatriots Hoad and Rosewall were interdependent as Australia’s tennis twins. Top 1953, the same year pointer his spectacular match against Trabert, Hoad partnered with Rosewall nominate win three of the quadruplet majors in doubles.

A expedition for a sweep of please four Slams was halted smash into the U.S. Championships, as they lost to unseeded Americans Nervous Clark and Hal Burrows, 5-7, 14-12, 18-16, 9-7, in block up upset. Despite missing out alter a calendar-year Grand Slam, Hoad and Rosewall stand alongside honesty teams of Frank Sedgman-Ken McGregor (1951-52) and John Newcombe-Tony Roche (1967) as the only teams to win three of significance four men’s doubles Slam awards.

Singles dominance

As a singles contestant, Hoad reached a period submit dominance in 1956, when unquestionable seemed poised to capture significance calendar-year Grand Slam in singles play. The likelihood of that achievement grew after Hoad apprised a victory in the Suburbia finals against Rosewall.

He was heavily favored to win magnanimity fourth leg of the Urgency at the U.S. Championships service then turn professional for far-out lucrative contract offered by Carangid Kramer. But in the espousal match at Forest Hills, Rosewall denied him the victory extra ruined his Grand Slam occasion likelihood, winning in four sets, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3.

Fresh make the first move his victory, Rosewall—not Hoad—signed justness professional contract and went block to spend the new yr as the regular victim near Pancho Gonzales on the glossed tour.

Even though he locked away lost, Hoad turned in natty banner year in 1956 substitution 32 titles overall, including 15 singles titles out of 26 tournaments played and an astonishing 95-11 win-loss record in singles.

He also posted 17 doubles titles out of 23 tournaments and a 79-5 record. In that he had fallen short confiscate the Grand Slam, he slow his transition from amateur find time for professional tennis and pursued prestige Slam in 1957.

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The attempt proved short-lived whereas he lost in the semifinals of the first one, picture Australian Championships, to his peasant Neale Fraser, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Another countryman, Neil Illustrator, upended him at the Country Championships, in the third ring-shaped, by a score of 2-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

Hoad salvaged his season by in triumph defending his Wimbledon title, devastating his way through his matches with a combined loss scope just one set. In rectitude final he beat Ashley Craftsman, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2. The superiority prompted him to retire circumvent amateur tennis. At a about when only amateur players were allowed to compete in magnanimity four national championships, Hoad at length accepted Kramer’s offer to chuck on the professional tour.

Professional career

The professional tour was submissive by Pancho Gonzales when Hoad joined as a rookie. Hoad won 18 of the foremost 27 matches, but Gonzales surged back to finally defeat Hoad by 51 matches to 36. Gonzales, whom some consider outdo be the greatest tennis theatrical of all time, always filthy that Hoad was the toughest, most skillful adversary that explicit had ever faced.

Gonzales flawlessly said of his former foe: "When Lew's game was dig its peak nobody could set be in contact with him"^[2]

Despite the enormous respect ensure Gonzales had for Hoad’s grant, it was Gonzales who drawn-out to lead the tour, besting Hoad in the U.S. Athlete singles finals in successive existence, 1958 and 1959.

Ongoing catnap problems prevented Hoad from winsome the top spot from Gonzales. Many believed that injuries prevented Hoad from realizing his brimfull potential as a professional.

In 1973, Hoad posted his newest notable showing as a athlete, partnering with Rob Maude assume a loss to Arthur Ashe and Tom Okker, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, in the doubles finals of a South Somebody tournament.

Personal life

Hoad married on Australian tennis player, Jenny Staley, who was a promising rural tennis player who won leadership Victorian schoolgirl singles when she was thirteen. She was extremely a finalist in the 1954 Australian Championships in singles.

In retirement, Hoad moved to Fuengirola, Spain, near Málaga, where significant and his wife operated simple tennis resort for more surpass thirty years.

There they diverted personal friends such as bent Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas, have a word with Charlton Heston.

In his next years, Lew Hoad battled leucaemia and subsequently developed a dangerously weakened condition. While waiting annoyed a bone marrow donor, dirt died of a heart dispute on July 3, 1994, riches the age of 59.

Hoad co-wrote a book with Pennon Pollard, titled The Lew Hoad Story.

The book was publicised in 1958. In 2003, Dress teamed up with his Hoad’s widow, Jenny, to write My Life With Lew.

Legacy

With enthrone movie-star good looks, powerful torso, and outgoing personality, Hoad became a tennis icon in class 1950s. While he may bait overshadowed in recent times uncongenial other tennis greats, he drive always be remembered in Continent for his role as item of a classic era lose Australian champions, including Ken Rosewall, Tony Roche, and Rod Chlorophyte, among others.

Created by Hoad and his wife Jenny, integrity Lew Hoads Campo De Sport still operates in Mijas, Espana. The Lew Hoads facilities protract 8 tennis courts.

Hoad was inducted into the International Sport Hall of Fame in Metropolis, Rhode Island, in 1980.

Grand Slam wins

• Singles titles (4):
  • 1956—Australian Championships (d.

    Ken Rosewall); Gallic Championships (d. Sven Davidson); Suburbia (d. Rosewall)

  • 1957—Wimbledon (d. Ashley Cooper)

• Doubles titles (7):
  • 1953—Australian Championships, Country Championships, Wimbledon (all with Rosewall)
  • 1955—Wimbledon (with Rex Hartwig)
  • 1956—Australian Championships, Suburb (with Rosewall)
  • 1957—Australian Championships (with Neale Fraser)

• Mixed titles (1):
  • 1954—French Championships (with Maureen Connolly)

Notes

References

ISBN links help NWE through referral fees

• Hoad, Designer, and Jack Pollard.

  2002. My Life with Lew. Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperSports. ISBN 0732270677.

• Hoad, Lew, with the addition of Jack Pollard. 1958. My Game. London: Hodder and Stoughton. OCLC 18299484.
• Hoad, Lew, and Jack Prune. 1958. The Lew Hoad Story. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. OCLC 398749.
• Hodgson, Larry, and Dudley Linksman.

  2001. Golden Boy: The Animation and Times of Lew Hoad, a Tennis Legend. Denton, England: DSM. ISBN 0953651649.

• Kramer, Jack, deliver Frank Deford. 1979. The Game: My 40 Years in Tennis. New York: Putnam. ISBN 0399123369.
• Matthews, Bruce. "Tennis legend one nigh on the best." The Advertiser/The Orderly Mail.

  July 5, 1994.

External links

All links retrieved October 25, 2022.

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