Joyce Wood
Joyce Wood in 1948 | |
Born | Caulfield, Victoria, Australia |
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Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | First (1938, 1939, 1940) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | First (1938, 1939, 1940; with Alison Burton) |
Joyce Beryl Wood was an Australian tennis player.[1][2] She and Alison Burton won the girls' doubles competition at the Australian Championships (now the Australian Open) in 1938, 1939 and 1940.[3] Wood also won the girls' single competition at the Australian Championships in the same three years.[4]
Biography
Wood was from Caulfield, Victoria. In 1943, she married fellow tennis player Max McDermott in Melbourne. Following their marriage, the couple relocated to Perth, Western Australia.[2]
After the birth of her daughter, Kay Suzanne McDermott in 1945, Wood continued to compete in tournaments, including defending her women's singles title in Perth in April 1946.[5][6]
References
- ^ "Tennis - Joyce Wood (Australia)". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Biographies of Female Tennis Players". Tennis Forum. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "Girls' Doubles". ausopen.com. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "Girls' Singles". ausopen.com. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "TENNIS FAMILY". The Daily News. Vol. LXIV, no. 22, 160. Western Australia. 17 April 1946. p. 8 (CITY FINAL). Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Education Department; Ministry of Education (14 February 1966). McDermott, Kay Suzanne.
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- 1930: Emily Hood
- 1931: Joan Hartigan
- 1932: Nancy Lewis
- 1933: Nancy Lewis
- 1934: May Blick
- 1935: Thelma Coyne
- 1936: Thelma Coyne
- 1937: Margaret Wilson
- 1938: Joyce Wood
- 1939: Joyce Wood
- 1940: Joyce Wood
- 1946: Shirley Grant
- 1947: Joan Tuckfield
- 1948: Beryl Penrose
- 1949: Judy Warnock
- 1950: Barbara McIntyre
- 1951: Mary Carter
- 1952: Mary Carter
- 1953: Jenny Staley
- 1954: Elizabeth Orton
- 1955: Elizabeth Orton
- 1956: Lorraine Coghlan
- 1957: Margot Rayson
- 1958: Jan Lehane
- 1959: Jan Lehane
- 1960: Lesley Turner
- 1961: Robyn Ebbern
- 1962: Robyn Ebbern
- 1963: Robyn Ebbern
- 1964: Kaye Dening
- 1965: Kerry Melville
- 1966: Karen Krantzcke
- 1967: Lexie Kenny
- 1968: Lesley Hunt
- 1969: Lesley Hunt
- 1970: Evonne Goolagong
- 1971: Pat Coleman
- 1972: Pat Coleman
- 1973: Chris O'Neil
- 1974: Jenny Walker
- 1975: Sue Barker
- 1976: Sue Saliba
- 1977 (Jan): Pamela Baily
- 1977 (Dec): Amanda Tobin
- 1978: Elizabeth Little
- 1979: Anne Minter
- 1980: Anne Minter
- 1981: Anne Minter
- 1982: Amanda Brown
- 1983: Amanda Brown
- 1984: Annabel Croft
- 1985: Jenny Byrne
- 1987: Michelle Jaggard
- 1988: Jo-Anne Faull
- 1989: Kim Kessaris
- 1990: Magdalena Maleeva
- 1991: Nicole Pratt
- 1992: Joanne Limmer
- 1993: Heike Rusch
- 1994: Trudi Musgrave
- 1995: Siobhan Drake-Brockman
- 1996: Magdalena Grzybowska
- 1997: Mirjana Lučić
- 1998: Jelena Kostanić
- 1999: Virginie Razzano
- 2000: Anikó Kapros
- 2001: Jelena Janković
- 2002: Barbora Strýcová
- 2003: Barbora Strýcová
- 2004: Shahar Pe'er
- 2005: Victoria Azarenka
- 2006: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- 2007: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- 2008: Arantxa Rus
- 2009: Ksenia Pervak
- 2010: Karolína Plíšková
- 2011: An-Sophie Mestach
- 2012: Taylor Townsend
- 2013: Ana Konjuh
- 2014: Elizaveta Kulichkova
- 2015: Tereza Mihalíková
- 2016: Vera Lapko
- 2017: Marta Kostyuk
- 2018: Liang En-shuo
- 2019: Clara Tauson
- 2020: Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva
- 2021: No competition (COVID-19 pandemic)
- 2022: Petra Marčinko
- 2023: Alina Korneeva
- 2024: Renáta Jamrichová
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