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 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 (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.^[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

Singles: 2 titles

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)

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

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

References

1. "Death of Mr. Pat O'Hara Wood". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 4 December 1961. p. 1. Retrieved 19 July 2021 – via newspapers.com.
2. Garcia, Gabriel (2018). "Pat O'Hara Wood: Career match record". thetennisbase.com. Madrid, Spain: Tennismem SAL. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
3. "Sports and Pastimes (Tennis: The Greatest Players)", Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, 2 November 1922.
4. Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0942257700.
5. "Pat O'Hara Wood". tennis.co.nf.
6. James Grant, Perspectives of a Century (Melbourne: Trinity College, 1972), pp. 147-49.
7. "Cricket—Trinity College Beats Ormond", The Argus, 31 Mar. 1911, p. 4.
8. "Family Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 September 1923. p. 17 – via National Library of Australia.
9. "LAWN TENNIS". The Examiner (DAILY ed.). Launceston, Tasmania. 11 August 1923. p. 15 – via National Library of Australia.
10. "Australian Open Results Archive / Men's Singles". Australian Open official website. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
11. "Australian Open Results Archive / Men's Doubles". Australian Open official website. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
12. "Wimbledon Rolls of Honour / Gentlemen's Doubles". Wimbledon official tournament website. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
13. "Australian Open Results Archive / 1920 Men's Doubles". Australian Open official website. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
14. "U.S. Open Past Champions / Men's Doubles". US Open official website. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
15. "Wimbledon Rolls of Honour / Mixed Doubles". Wimbledon official tournament website. Retrieved 24 September 2015.

External links

• 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