TENNIS PLAYER

Lew Hoad

1934 - 1994

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Lewis Alan Hoad (23 November 1934 – 3 July 1994) was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur (the Australian Championships, French Championships and two Wimbledons). He was a member of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup four times between 1952 and 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lew Hoad has received more than 403,854 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Lew Hoad is the 156th most popular tennis player (down from 116th in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Australia (down from 148th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Australian Tennis Player.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

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  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Lew Hoad ranks 156 out of 1,569. Before him are Amélie Mauresmo, Norman Brookes, John Bromwich, Richard Krajicek, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, and Ana Ivanovic. After him are Cilly Aussem, Lottie Dod, Owen Davidson, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Marguerite Broquedis, and Grigor Dimitrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Lew Hoad ranks 314. Before him are Gérard Latortue, Gergely Kulcsár, Junior Wells, Leonid Stein, Nikolai Slichenko, and Susan George. After him are Turan Dursun, Roy Kerr, Roger Norrington, Lyudmila Shevtsova, Tomás Eloy Martínez, and Alan Bennett. Among people deceased in 1994, Lew Hoad ranks 216. Before him are Max Petitpierre, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Devika Rani, Ladislav Mňačko, Raymond Scott, and Karl-Heinz Metzner. After him are Severino Minelli, Masayoshi Ito, Gilbert Roland, Russell Kirk, Dinah Shore, and Avet Terterian.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Lew Hoad ranks 167 out of 1,143. Before him are David Chalmers (1966), Norman Brookes (1877), Peter Cosgrove (1947), John Bromwich (1918), Daniel Ricciardo (1989), and Tommy Emmanuel (1955). After him are Jesse Spencer (1979), Anna Torv (1979), Portia de Rossi (1973), Owen Davidson (1943), J. L. Mackie (1917), and Sheila Fitzpatrick (1941).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Australia

Among tennis players born in Australia, Lew Hoad ranks 17. Before him are Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1951), Neale Fraser (1933), Fred Stolle (1938), Ashley Cooper (1936), Norman Brookes (1877), and John Bromwich (1918). After him are Owen Davidson (1943), Frank Sedgman (1927), Rodney Heath (1884), Mervyn Rose (1930), Nancye Wynne Bolton (1916), and Lleyton Hewitt (1981).

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