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Team competitions. Davis Cup. W ( 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956) Lewis Alan Hoad (23 November 1934 – 3 July 1994) was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur (the Australian Championships, French Championships and two Wimbledons ).
Jul 4, 1994 · Lewis Alan Hoad, tennis player: born Sydney 23 November 1934; Australian doubles champion 1953, 1956, 1957; French doubles champion 1953; Wimbledon doubles champion 1953, 1955, 1956; French...
Lew Hoad (born Nov. 23, 1934, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia—died July 3, 1994, Fuengirola, Spain) was an Australian tennis player who rose to prominence in the 1950s, winning 13 major singles and doubles titles. With his rival and partner, Ken Rosewall, Hoad led Australia to win the Davis Cup in 1953 over the United States.
Jul 5, 1994 · Lew Hoad, an Australian who won five Wimbledon titles in the 1950's, died on Sunday in Spain, the International Tennis Federation said today. He was 59.
Hoad knocked off Vic Seixas, the defending Wimbledon champion, in the first singles match. Rosewall was beaten by defending U.S. champion Tony Trabert. The Seixas and Trabert doubles pair defeated Hoad and Rex Hartwig, which left Hoad in a must-win situation against Trabert.
Jul 5, 1994 · The tributes flowed Monday for former Australian tennis great Lew Hoad, who died at the age of 59 on the day Pete Sampras emulated his feat of winning two consecutive Wimbledon titles.
For five straight years, he was in the World Top Ten, No. 1 in 1956. Hoad (five attempts) and Bjorn Borg (10) are probably the two greatest players not to win the U.S. Championship. Lew married another player, country-woman Jenny Staley (finalist in the 1954 Australian singles.
Jul 3, 1994 · Mixed doubles champion French 1954. Representation Davis Cup 1953-1956. Inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in January 1995; inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1980. A player who was admired for his attacking play, Lew Hoad was a feared foe on the court.
Lewis Alan “Lew” Hoad, was a champion tennis player. For five straight years, beginning in 1952, he was ranked in the world top ten for amateurs, reaching the number one spot in 1956. Lew won 13 major titles in singles and doubles.
Lewis Alan ‘Lew’ Hoad (1934-1994), tennis player, was born on 23 November 1934 at Waverley, New South Wales, eldest of three sons of New South Wales-born parents Alan Henry ‘Boy’ Hoad, electrical fitter, and his wife Ailsa ‘Bonnie’ Lyle, née Burbury.
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