The tributes flowed Monday for former Australian tennis great Lew Hoad, who died at the age of 59 on the day Pete Sampras emulated his feat of winning two consecutive Wimbledon titles. Hoad, winner of 13 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles, died in Spain on Sunday after a long battle with leukemia.
Keeping this in view, how many times did Lew Hoad win Wimbledon?
Doubles competition padded Hoad’s Hall of Fame resume. He won three titles in Australia (1953, 1956, 1957) and Wimbledon (1953, 1955, 1956), one each at the French (1953) and U.S. Nationals (1956).
Furthermore, what is Hoad? English: topographic name for someone who lived on a heath, from Middle English hoth ‘heath’, Old English hað, a byform of h? ð (see Heath). This form was restricted in the Middle Ages to southeastern England, and the surname is still largely confined to Kent and Sussex.
Then, did Lew Hoad win Wimbledon?
Lewis Alan Hoad (23 November 1934 – 3 July 1994) was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from the early 1950s through the early 1970s. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur (Australian Open, French Open and two Wimbledons).