Pat O'Hara Wood
Tennis Tournament Champion
1891 – 1961
Who was Pat O'Hara Wood?
Hector "Pat" O'Hara Wood was an Australian tennis player.
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 in 1920 and 1923. He died in 1961, aged seventy in Richmond. His brother Arthur O'Hara Wood was a tennis player too and won the Australasian championships in 1914.
After attending Melbourne Grammar School, he entered Trinity College in 1911, where he excelled at cricket as well as Tennis, leading the Trinity College team to a memorable victory against Ormond College in March 1911, where he made 167 not out.
On 3 August 1923 he married Australian tennis player Meryl O'Hara Wood.
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- Born
- Apr 30, 1891
St Kilda - Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 30, 1961
Richmond
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on July 23, 2013
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