Editing Lew Hoad (section)

{{short description|Australian tennis player}}
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{{Infobox tennis biography
|name                        = Lew Hoad
|image                       = Lew Hoad 1954 Davis Cup.jpg
|caption                     = Hoad at the 1954 Davis Cup
|fullname                    = Lewis Alan Hoad
|country                     = {{flagu|Australia}}
|residence                   = 
|birth_date                  = {{birth date|df=yes|1934|11|23}}
|birth_place                 = [[Glebe, New South Wales|Glebe]], Australia
|death_date                  = {{death date and age|df=yes|1994|07|03|1934|11|23}}
|death_place                 = [[Fuengirola]], Spain
|height                      = {{height|m=1.79}} 
|college                     = 
|turnedpro                   = 1957 (amateur tour from 1950)
|retired                     = 1973
|plays                       = Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
|careerprizemoney            = 
|tennishofyear               = 1980
|tennishofid                 = lew-hoad
|website                     = 
|singlesrecord               = 937–592 (61.2%) <ref name="Lew Hoad: Career match record">{{cite web|title=Lew Hoad: Career match record|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player_input_enc=HOAD%2C+LEW&player_input=HOAD%2C+LEW&sub=2#aSubmenu|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennis Base|access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref>
|singlestitles               = 52 <ref name="Lew Hoad: Career match record"/>
|highestsinglesranking       = [[World number 1 ranked male tennis players|No. '''1''']] (1953, <small>[[Philippe Chatrier]]</small>)
|AustralianOpenresult        = '''W''' ([[1956 Australian Championships – Men's singles|1956]]) 
|FrenchOpenresult            = '''W''' ([[1956 French Championships – Men's singles|1956]])
|Wimbledonresult             = '''W''' ([[1956 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles|1956]], [[1957 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles|1957]])
|USOpenresult                = F ([[1956 U.S. National Championships – Men's singles|1956]])
|Othertournaments            = yes
|Promajors                   = yes
|USProresult                 = F ([[U.S. Pro Tennis Championships draws, 1946–1967#1958|1958]], [[U.S. Pro Tennis Championships draws, 1946–1967#1959|1959]])
|WembleyProresult            = F ([[Wembley Championships#1961|1961]], [[Wembley Championships#1962|1962]], [[Wembley Championships#1963|1963]])
|FrenchProresult             = F ([[French Pro Championship#1958|1958]], [[French Pro Championship#1960|1960]])
|Proother                    = yes
|TOCresult                   = '''W''' ([[Tournament of Champions (tennis)#Australia 1958|1958]]<sup>AU</sup>, [[Tournament of Champions (tennis)#Forest Hills 1959|1959]]<sup>FH</sup>)               
|doublestitles               = 
|highestdoublesranking       = 
|AustralianOpenDoublesresult = '''W''' (1953, 1956, 1957)
|FrenchOpenDoublesresult     = '''W''' (1953)
|WimbledonDoublesresult      = '''W''' ([[1953 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles|1953]], [[1955 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles|1955]], [[1956 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles|1956]])
|USOpenDoublesresult         = '''W''' (1956)
|AustralianOpenMixedresult   = F (1955)
|FrenchOpenMixedresult       = '''W''' (1954)
|WimbledonMixedresult        = SF ([[1953 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles|1953]], [[1954 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles|1954]], [[1955 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed doubles|1955]])
|USOpenMixedresult           = F (1952, 1956)
|Team                        = yes
|DavisCupresult              = '''W''' ([[1952 Davis Cup|1952]], [[1953 Davis Cup|1953]], [[1955 Davis Cup|1955]], [[1956 Davis Cup|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 [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Major]] singles tournaments as an amateur (the [[Australian Open|Australian Championships]], [[French Open|French Championships]] and two [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]]s). He was a member of the [[Australia Davis Cup team|Australian team]] that won the [[Davis Cup]] four times between 1952 and 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957. He won the [[Tournament of Champions (tennis)|Kooyong Tournament of Champions]] in 1958 and the [[Tournament of Champions (tennis)|Forest Hills Tournament of Champions]] in 1959. He won the [[Ampol]] Open Trophy world series of tournaments in 1959, which included the Kooyong tournament that concluded in early January 1960. Hoad's men's singles tournament victories spanned from 1951 to 1971.

Hoad was ranked the world No. 1 amateur in 1953 by [[Harry Hopman]], by Noel Brown and by the editors of Tennis de France, and also in 1956 by Lance Tingay, by Ned Potter, and by Tennis de France. He was ranked the world No. 1 professional for 1959 in Kramer's [[Ampol]] point ranking system, and by Robert Barnes (Kramer's Australian manager).

Serious back problems plagued Hoad throughout his career, possibly caused by a weight-lifting exercise that he devised in 1954. The back injury became particularly intense following the 1956 Wimbledon championships, continued periodically, and led to his semi-retirement from tennis in 1967. Afterwards, he made sporadic appearances at tournaments, enticed by the advent of the [[Open Era]] in 1968 and was seeded No. 7 for the [[1968 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles|1968 Wimbledon Championships]] and seeded No. 12 for the [[1970 French Open – Men's singles|1970 French Open]].

Following his retirement in 1973, Hoad and his wife [[Jenny Staley Hoad]] constructed, owned and operated a tennis resort, ''Lew Hoad's Campo de Tenis'' and ''Lew Hoad Tennis Village'' in [[Fuengirola]], Spain, where he died  of leukaemia on 3 July 1994, aged 59.