Pat O'Hara Wood

Hector "Pat" O'Hara Wood (30 April 1891 – 3 December 1961) was an Australian tennis player.

Pat O'Hara Wood
Full nameHector O'Hara Wood
Country (sports) Australia
Born(1891-04-30)30 April 1891
Melbourne, Australia
Died3 December 1961(1961-12-03) (aged 70)[1]
Richmond, Australia
Turned pro1913 (amateur tour)
Retired1929
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Career record242–55 (81.4%)[2]
Career titles19[3]
Highest rankingNo. 7 (1922, A. Wallis Myers)[4]
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian OpenW (1920, 1923)
WimbledonQF (1919, 1922)
US Open4R (1922)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian OpenW (1919, 1920, 1923, 1925)
F (1924, 1926, 1927)
WimbledonW (1919)
F (1922)
US OpenF (1922, 1924)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
WimbledonW (1922)
Team competitions
Davis CupF (1922Ch, 1923Ch, 1924Ch)

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.[5] Pat was quick around the court, had textbook groundstrokes, sharp volleys and a solid serve.[6] 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,[7] leading the Trinity College team to a memorable victory against Ormond College in March 1911, where he made 167 not out.[8] 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.[9][10]

Grand Slams finals

Singles: 2 titles
Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Win1920Australasian ChampionshipsGrass Ronald Thomas6–3, 4–6, 6–8, 6–1, 6–3[11]
Win1923Australasian ChampionshipsGrass Bert St. John6–1, 6–1, 6–3[11]

Doubles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runners-up)
Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win1919Australasian ChampionshipsGrass Ronald Thomas James Anderson
Arthur Lowe		7–5, 6–1, 7–9, 3–6, 6–3[12]
Win1919WimbledonGrass Ronald Thomas Rodney Heath
Randolph Lycett		6–4, 6–2, 4–6, 6–2[13]
Win1920Australasian ChampionshipsGrass Ronald Thomas Horace Rice
Roy Taylor		6–1, 6–0, 7–5[14]
Loss1922WimbledonGrass Gerald Patterson James Anderson
Randolph Lycett		6–3, 9–7, 4–6, 3–6, 9–11[13]
Loss1922U.S. National ChampionshipsGrass Gerald Patterson Vincent Richards
Bill Tilden		6–4, 1–6, 3–6, 4–6[15]
Win1923Australasian ChampionshipsGrass Bert St. John Dudley Bullough
Horace Rice		6–4, 6–3, 3–6, 6–0[12]
Loss1924Australasian ChampionshipsGrass Gerald Patterson James Anderson
Norman Brookes		2–6, 4–6, 3–6[12]
Loss1924U.S. National ChampionshipsGrass Gerald Patterson Howard Kinsey
Robert Kinsey		5–7, 7–5, 9–7, 3–6, 4–6[15]
Win1925Australasian ChampionshipsGrass Gerald Patterson James Anderson
Fred Kalms		6–4, 8–6, 7–5[12]
Loss1926Australasian ChampionshipsGrass James Anderson John Hawkes
Gerald Patterson		1–6, 4–6, 2–6[12]
Loss1927Australian ChampionshipsGrass Ian McInnes John Hawkes
Gerald Patterson		6–8, 2–6, 1–6[12]

Mixed Doubles: 1 title
Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win1922WimbledonGrass Suzanne Lenglen Elizabeth Ryan
Randolph Lycett		6–4, 6–3[16]

References
  1. "The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Page 1, December 4, 1961". www.newspapers.com.
  2. Garcia, Gabriel (2018). "Pat O'Hara Wood: Career match record". thetennisbase.com. Madrid, Spain: Tennismem SAL. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  3. Garcia, Gabriel (2018). "Pat O'Hara Wood: Career match record". thetennisbase.com. Madrid, Spain: Tennismem SAL. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  4. "Sports and Pastimes (Tennis: The Greatest Players)", Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, 2 November 1922.
  5. Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0942257700.
  6. "Pat O'Hara Wood". www.tennis.co.nf.
  7. James Grant, Perspectives of a Century (Melbourne: Trinity College, 1972), pp. 147-49.
  8. "Cricket—Trinity College Beats Ormond", The Argus, 31 Mar. 1911, p. 4.
  9. "Family Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 September 1923. p. 17 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. "LAWN TENNIS". The Examiner (DAILY ed.). Launceston, Tasmania. 11 August 1923. p. 15 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. "Australian Open Results Archive / Men's Singles". Australian Open official website. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  12. "Australian Open Results Archive / Men's Doubles". Australian Open official website. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  13. "Wimbledon Rolls of Honour / Gentlemen's Doubles". Wimbledon official tournament website. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  14. "Australian Open Results Archive / 1920 Men's Doubles". Australian Open official website. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  15. "U.S. Open Past Champions / Men's Doubles". US Open official website. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  16. "Wimbledon Rolls of Honour / Mixed Doubles". Wimbledon official tournament website. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
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