Pat O'Hara Wood

Full name	Hector O'Hara Wood
Country (sports)	Australia
Born	( 1891-04-30 ) 30 April 1891 Melbourne , Australia
Died	3 December 1961 (1961-12-03) (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 ( 1922 Ch , 1923 Ch , 1924 Ch )

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]}

Grand Slams finals [ edit ]

Singles: 2 titles [ edit ]

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1920	Australasian Championships	Grass	Ronald Thomas	6?3, 4?6, 6?8, 6?1, 6?3	[10]
Win	1923	Australasian Championships	Grass	Bert St. John	6?1, 6?1, 6?3	[10]

Doubles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runners-up) [ edit ]

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1919	Australasian Championships	Grass	Ronald Thomas	James Anderson Arthur Lowe	7?5, 6?1, 7?9, 3?6, 6?3	[11]
Win	1919	Wimbledon	Grass	Ronald Thomas	Rodney Heath Randolph Lycett	6?4, 6?2, 4?6, 6?2	[12]
Win	1920	Australasian Championships	Grass	Ronald Thomas	Horace Rice Roy Taylor	6?1, 6?0, 7?5	[13]
Loss	1922	Wimbledon	Grass	Gerald Patterson	James Anderson Randolph Lycett	6?3, 9?7, 4?6, 3?6, 9?11	[12]
Loss	1922	U.S. National Championships	Grass	Gerald Patterson	Vincent Richards Bill Tilden	6?4, 1?6, 3?6, 4?6	[14]
Win	1923	Australasian Championships	Grass	Bert St. John	Dudley Bullough Horace Rice	6?4, 6?3, 3?6, 6?0	[11]
Loss	1924	Australasian Championships	Grass	Gerald Patterson	James Anderson Norman Brookes	2?6, 4?6, 3?6	[11]
Loss	1924	U.S. National Championships	Grass	Gerald Patterson	Howard Kinsey Robert Kinsey	5?7, 7?5, 9?7, 3?6, 4?6	[14]
Win	1925	Australasian Championships	Grass	Gerald Patterson	James Anderson Fred Kalms	6?4, 8?6, 7?5	[11]
Loss	1926	Australasian Championships	Grass	James Anderson	John Hawkes Gerald Patterson	1?6, 4?6, 2?6	[11]
Loss	1927	Australian Championships	Grass	Ian McInnes	John Hawkes Gerald Patterson	6?8, 2?6, 1?6	[11]

Mixed Doubles: 1 title [ edit ]

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1922	Wimbledon	Grass	Suzanne Lenglen	Elizabeth Ryan Randolph Lycett	6?4, 6?3	[15]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• ADB biography
• Pat O'Hara Wood at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Pat O'Hara Wood at the International Tennis Federation
• Pat O'Hara Wood at the Davis Cup