Editing Lew Hoad (section)

==Career summary==

Hoad's win–loss ratio for 1956 in all matches was 114/129 or 88%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lew Hoad: 1956 Player Activity|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player_input_enc=HOAD%2C+LEW&player_input=&sub=3&idjugador=48277&year=1956&surface=&tipo_de_torneo=&ronda=&tipoRanking=ATP&tm_category=&tm_torneo=&anno_from=&anno_to=&hand=&codpais=&rondaplus=&con_wj1wj2=&ranking_from=&ranking_to=#aSubmenu|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennis Base|access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref> His win ratio in 1958 was 41% (winning 64 of 155 matches).<ref>{{cite web|title=1958 Ranking Singles|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=rankings&accion=single&lista=1701&apartado=tm&fecha=29-12-1958|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennis Base|access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref> However, Hoad's win rates on the world championship tour that year (36/87 or 41%) and in the 1959 four-man tour (68%) compare favourably to Rosewall's percentages on the 1957 world championship tour (34%) and on the 1960 four man tour (56%).{{sfnp|McCauley|2000|pp=205–216}} In the 1959 Ampol Open Trophy tournament series, Hoad's winning percentage was 71% (36/51) compared to Gonzales' 72% (26/36) and Rosewall's 62% (26/42). Gonzales defaulted three Ampol tournaments and played 15 fewer matches than Hoad in the tournament series.{{sfnp|McCauley|2000|pp=211–216}} For the 1959 season as a whole, Hoad had a 24 to 23 edge in wins against Gonzales, a consistency which surpasses any other opponent of Gonzales during his world champion years.<ref name="theage19600104"/> Hoad's lifetime edge over Gonzales on grass was 21 wins to 14 losses (60%).<ref>TennisBase, lifetime head-to-head stats / newspaper reports of 1961 British head-to-head tour/Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 1958</ref> Hoad trails Rosewall lifetime in grasscourt matches, 17 to 27, Hoad's results declining after 1961.<ref name="hoad_rosewal_hth">{{cite web|title=Ken Rosewall vs Lew Hoad Head 2 Head|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player_input_enc=ROSEWALL%2C+KEN&player_input=&sub=6&apartado=6&subH2H=1&player2_head=HOAD,%20LEW#aSubmenu|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennis Base|access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref> Hoad was 15 wins and 18 losses against Rosewall lifetime in grass court tournament play (1951–1967).  Hoad was 17 wins and 21 losses lifetime on clay against Rosewall, and 10 wins and 13 losses lifetime on clay against Trabert.<ref name="hoad_rosewal_hth"/><ref>Hoad/Trabert rivalries, TennisBase</ref> Lifetime on all surfaces, primarily indoor, in approximate numbers, Hoad trails Gonzales 78–104 and trails Rosewall 51–84.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lew Hoad: Rivalries|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=14 June 2019}}</ref> In the five [[Tournament of Champions (tennis)|Tournament of Champions]] events from 1957 to 1959 in which both players were entered, Hoad held a 3 to 2 edge over Gonzales in head-to-head play, all on grass.<ref>McCauley, pp. 206, 208, 209, 212, 215.</ref>

On the head-to-head tours of the era (1958, 1959, 1961), Hoad compiled 57 wins and 68 losses against Gonzales, the best head-to-head showing of any pro against the reigning champion Gonzales. In the 1959 Ampol series, Hoad's record was 3 wins and 5 losses against Gonzales.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pancho Gonzales: Rivalries|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player1=GONZALES,%20PANCHO&sub=10&idjugador=46369#aSubmenu|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennis Base|access-date=14 June 2019}}</ref>{{sfnp|McCauley|2000|pp=211–216}} However, Hoad was more consistent than Gonzales against the other ten players in the Ampol series, winning 33 of 43 matches (77%), while Gonzales won 21 of 28 (75%), and this gave Hoad the overall victory in the series. Hoad won six tournaments compared to Gonzales' four, and he had 6 wins and 2 losses against Rosewall on the 1959 Ampol series, while Gonzales had 1 win and 3 losses against Rosewall. Hoad had a 15–13 edge over Gonzales in their meetings on the 4-man championship tour of 1959, but Hoad was deprived of overall victory on this tour because he was less consistent than Gonzales when facing the rookie pros, [[Mal Anderson]] and [[Ashley Cooper (tennis)|Ashley Cooper]]. Hoad's combined record against the rookies was 27–7 compared to Gonzales’ 34–0.{{sfnp|McCauley|2000|p=92}}

Hoad was a dominant doubles player. He won nine Grand Slam doubles titles, including one Mixed doubles title, and a Career Grand Slam in men's doubles. Hoad won 21 major men's doubles titles over 14 seasons (eight Grand Slam, thirteen Pro Slam), a pre-Open era record, shared with Rosewall.  He also won the 1959 Forest Hills TOC doubles title. Rosewall won 24 major men's doubles titles over 20 seasons, and [[Mike Bryan]] won 18 over 15 seasons. Hoad and Rosewall together as a doubles team won 15 major doubles titles (six Grand Slam plus nine Pro Slam), one fewer than the Bryan brothers at 16. Hoad and Trabert won four major doubles titles together (three French Pro, one Wembley Pro) plus the 1959 Forest Hills TOC doubles title. Hoad won a record seven French Pro men's doubles titles, and consecutively.