Emily Hood Westacott

Emily Hood Westacott
Country (sports)  Australia
Born (1910-05-06)6 May 1910
Brisbane, Queensland
Died 9 October 1980(1980-10-09) (aged 70)
Singles
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open W (1939)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open W (1930, 1933, 1934)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open F (1931, 1934)

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)

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.[1][2][3]

She won the Australian Championship singles in 1939, defeating Nell Hopman in straight sets.[4] In 1937 she was a finalist losing in the final to Nancye Wynne Bolton in three sets.[5] Together with Margaret Molesworth, she won three women's doubles titles at the Australian Championships in 1930, 1933, and 1934.[6]

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.[7][8]

Grand Slam tournament finals

Singles: 2 (1 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1937Australian Championships Grass Australia Nancye Wynne 3–6, 7–5, 4–6
Winner 1939Australian Championships Grass Australia Nell Hopman 6–1, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1930 Australian Championships Grass Australia Margaret Molesworth Australia Marjorie Cox Crawford
Australia Sylvia Lance Harper 		6–3, 0–6, 7–5
Winner 1933 Australian Championships Grass Australia Margaret Molesworth Australia Joan Hartigan
United States Marjorie Gladman 		6–3, 6–2
Winner 1934 Australian Championships Grass Australia Margaret Molesworth Australia Joan Hartigan
Australia Ula Valkenburg 		6–8, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up 1937 Australian Championships Grass Australia Nell Hopman Australia Thelma Coyne Long
Australia Nancye Wynne 		2–6, 2–6
Runner-up 1939 Australian Championships Grass Australia May Hardcastle Australia Thelma Coyne Long
Australia Nancye Wynne 		5–7, 4–6

Mixed doubles: 2 (0 titles, 2 runners-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1931 Australian Championships Grass Australia Aubrey Willard Australia Marjorie Cox Crawford
Australia Jack Crawford 		5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 1934 Australian Championships Grass Australia Roy Dunlop Australia Joan Hartigan
Australia Edgar Moon 		3–6, 4–6

References

  1. ↑ "Tennis.". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 27 April 1935. p. 10.
  2. ↑ "For Wimbledon tennis". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 6 March 1939. p. 20 Supplement: Women's Supplement.
  3. ↑ "Women in outdoor sport.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 23 April 1936. p. 25. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "Hopman, Eleanor Mary (Nell) (1909–1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  5. ↑ "National tennis titles.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 2 February 1937. p. 13 Supplement: Women's Supplement.
  6. ↑ "Australian Open players archive – Emily Westacott". Tennis Australia.
  7. ↑ "Tennis.". Daily Advertiser. Wagga Wagga, NSW: National Library of Australia. 1 February 1939. p. 8. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Forego Wimbledon.". The Cairns Post. Qld.: National Library of Australia. 13 March 1939. p. 8.


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