Emily Hood Westacott

Emily Hood Westacott (née Hood; 6 May 1910– 9 October 1980), was an Australian female tennis player in the 1930s.

Emily Hood Westacott at the Milton Courts in Brisbane, Australia (1940)

Emily Hood Westacott
Full nameEmily Jane Lucy Harding Hood [1]
Country (sports) Australia
Born(1910-05-06)6 May 1910
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died9 October 1980(1980-10-09) (aged 70)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (1939)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenW (1930, 1933, 1934)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian OpenF (1931, 1934)

In 1930 she won the national junior singles and doubles titles as well as the doubles title with Margaret Molesworth. Due to illness she played little tennis in 1935 and the first half of 1936.[2][3][4]

She won the Australian Championship singles in 1939, defeating Nell Hopman in straight sets.[5] In 1937 she was a finalist losing in the final to Nancye Wynne Bolton in three sets.[6] Together with Margaret Molesworth, she won three women's doubles titles at the Australian Championships in 1930, 1933, and 1934.[7]

In 1939 the Queensland Lawn Tennis Association proposed to send Westacott and May Hardcastle to the Wimbledon Championships, but Westacott declined due to illness of her mother.[8][9]

She married Victor Clyde Westacott on 20 August 1930 at the Methodist Church in Brisbane.[10]

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 2 (1 titles, 1 runner-up)
Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Loss1937Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Nancye Wynne3–6, 7–5, 4–6
Win1939Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Nell Hopman6–1, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runners-up)
Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win1930Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Margaret MolesworthAustralia Marjorie Cox Crawford
Australia Sylvia Lance Harper		6–3, 0–6, 7–5
Win1933Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Margaret MolesworthAustralia Joan Hartigan
United States Marjorie Gladman		6–3, 6–2
Win1934Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Margaret MolesworthAustralia Joan Hartigan
Australia Ula Valkenburg		6–8, 6–4, 6–4
Loss1937Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Nell HopmanAustralia Thelma Coyne
Australia Nancye Wynne		2–6, 2–6
Loss1939Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia May HardcastleAustralia Thelma Coyne
Australia Nancye Wynne		5–7, 4–6

Mixed doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)
Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss1931Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Aubrey WillardAustralia Marjorie Cox Crawford
Australia Jack Crawford		5–7, 4–6
Loss1934Australian ChampionshipsGrassAustralia Roy DunlopAustralia Joan Hartigan
Australia Edgar Moon		3–6, 4–6

References
  1. "Record details of Emily Jane Lucy Harding Hood". Queensland Government. The State of Queensland.
  2. "Tennis". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 27 April 1935. p. 10.
  3. "For Wimbledon tennis". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 6 March 1939. p. 20 Supplement: Women's Supplement.
  4. "Women in outdoor sport". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 23 April 1936. p. 25. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  5. "Hopman, Eleanor Mary (Nell) (1909–1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  6. "National tennis titles". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 2 February 1937. p. 13 Supplement: Women's Supplement.
  7. "Australian Open players archive – Emily Westacott". Tennis Australia.
  8. "Tennis". Daily Advertiser. Wagga Wagga, NSW: National Library of Australia. 1 February 1939. p. 8. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  9. "Forego Wimbledon". The Cairns Post. Qld.: National Library of Australia. 13 March 1939. p. 8.
  10. "Wedding". Morning Bulletin. Queensland, Australia. 26 August 1930. p. 12 – via Trove.


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