TENNIS PLAYER

Lew Hoad

1934 - 1994

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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). He was a member of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup four times between 1952 and 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lew Hoad is the 135th most popular tennis player (up from 156th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Australia (up from 165th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Australian Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Lew Hoad ranks 135 out of 1,569Before him are Aryna Sabalenka, Chris O'Neil, Edgar Leonard, Carlos Alcaraz, R. Norris Williams, and Jennifer Capriati. After him are Helena Suková, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Kathleen McKane Godfree, Andrés Gómez, Zsuzsa Körmöczy, and Ernest Renshaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Lew Hoad ranks 257Before him are Abdullah Ibrahim, Rodri, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Ludvig Faddeev, Phạm Minh Mẫn, and Mitsuteru Yokoyama. After him are Sven-Bertil Taube, Boris Volynov, Francisco J. Ayala, Tengiz Sigua, Harald Grønningen, and Gergely Kulcsár. Among people deceased in 1994, Lew Hoad ranks 176Before him are Boris Yegorov, Givi Chokheli, Igor Chislenko, Helen Stephens, John Osborne, and Gary Kildall. After him are William Conrad, Patrick O'Neal, Aurora Mardiganian, Jānis Krūmiņš, Karel Kryl, and Maximilian von Edelsheim.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Lew Hoad ranks 135 out of 1,143Before him are Al Lawrence (1930), Richard Norton (1950), Christopher Doyle (1952), Chris O'Neil (1956), John Flanagan (1944), and Daevid Allen (1938). After him are Betty Cuthbert (1938), John Curtin (1885), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Graham Arnold (1963), Peter Norman (1942), and Lionel Cox (1930).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Australia

Among tennis players born in Australia, Lew Hoad ranks 16Before him are Pat Rafter (1972), Jack Crawford (1908), Judy Tegart-Dalton (1937), Bob Hewitt (1940), Mervyn Rose (1930), and Chris O'Neil (1956). After him are Tony Roche (1945), Ken McGregor (1929), Ashley Cooper (1936), John Bromwich (1918), Norman Brookes (1877), and James Anderson (1894).