Editing Lew Hoad (section)

==Early life and career==
[[File:Australian tennis player Lewis Hoad.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|Hoad at age 15 competing at Kooyong in Inter State Tennis in 1949]]
Lewis Hoad{{efn|name=actor|Lewis Hoad was named after the American actor [[Lewis Stone]].{{sfnp|Hoad|Pollard|2002|p=3}}}} was born on 23 November 1934, in the working-class Sydney inner suburb of [[Glebe, New South Wales|Glebe]], the eldest of three sons of tramway electrician Alan Hoad and his wife, Ailsa Lyle Burbury.{{sfnp|Hoad|Pollard|2002|p=3}} Hoad started playing tennis at age five with a racket gifted by a local social club.{{sfnp|Davidson|1970|pp=105, 106}} As a young child, he would wake up at 5 a.m. and hit tennis balls against a wall and garage door until the neighbours complained, and he was allowed to practice on the courts of the Hereford Tennis Club behind the house.{{sfnp|Hoad|Pollard|2002|pp=3, 4}}{{sfnp|Davidson|1970|p=106}} At age 10 he competed in the seaside tournament at [[Manly, New South Wales|Manly]] in the under 16 category.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17933284 |title=School for Tennis Juniors. |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=28 December 1944 |access-date=14 June 2014 |page=5 |via=Trove}}</ref>

In his youth, Hoad often played [[Ken Rosewall]], and they became known as the Sydney "twins", although they had very different physiques, personalities and playing styles. Their first match in Sydney in January 1947 (when both were aged 12) was played as an opener of an exhibition match between Australia and America. Rosewall won 6–0, 6–0.<ref>Muscles, Ken Rosewall as told to Richard Naughton, Slattery Media Group, 2012, p. 17</ref> Hoad built up great physical strength, especially in his hands and arms, by training at a police boys' club, where he made a name as a boxer. Hoad was about 12 when he was introduced to [[Adrian Quist]], a former Australian tennis champion and then general manager of the [[Dunlop Sport|Dunlop]] sports goods company. Quist played a couple of sets with Hoad and was impressed by his natural ability. When Hoad was 14 he left school and joined the Dunlop payroll, following the pattern of that 'shamateur' era when most of Australia's brightest tennis prospects were employed by sporting goods companies.<ref name="independent_obit">{{cite web|author=Alan Trengove|title=Obituary: Lew Hoad|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lew-hoad-1411724.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lew-hoad-1411724.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|date=5 July 1994}}</ref>

Hoad had just turned 15 when he and Rosewall were selected to play for [[New South Wales]] in an interstate contest against [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18128860 |title=Rosewall, Hoad in state team. |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=25 November 1949 |page=10 |via=Trove}}</ref> In November 1949, Hoad won the junior title at the New South Wales Championships, and the same weekend, he also competed in the final of the junior [[table tennis]] championship in Sydney.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48607374 |title=N.S.W. Tennis Titles. |work=The Barrier Miner |date=26 November 1949 |page=1 |via=Trove}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18472523 |title=Table Tennis. |work=[[The Sunday Herald (Sydney)|The Sunday Herald]] |date=27 November 1949 |page=12 Section: Sporting Section |via=Trove}}</ref>