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 the provincial budget, and the amalgamation of Quebec's larger cities undertaken by his successor Bernard Landry. Other aspects of his legacy include the creation of a low-cost, universal public daycare system, the implementation of a universal system of pharmacare, the birth of Emploi Québec, and achieving a balanced budget. He is remembered for his sometimes short fuse when provoked and his unforgiving demands for excellence in those he worked with, but also for his charm and eloquence, and was appreciated as a formidable foe by his political adversaries. <mask> has stated that he will not return to politics.Elections as party leader
He won the 1998 election and resigned in 2001. <mask> is the only PQ leader to be Premier of Quebec for his entire leadership and the only non-interim PQ leader to never lose an election. Honours
Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada 31 March 1988. 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal (1992)
 On April 7, 2000, <mask> received a Doctorate Honoris causa of Law from the Lumière University Lyon 2. Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002)
 Commander of the Legion of Honour (2002)
 On October 5, 2006, <mask> received a second Doctorate Honoris causa of Law, this time from the Law Faculty of the Université de Montréal. On April 27, 2007, <mask> received a third Doctorate Honoris causa from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). Grand Commander of the National Order of Quebec (2008)
 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012)

See also
List of Quebec premiers
Nicknames of Quebec premiers
Quebec sovereignty movement
History of Quebec
Politics of Quebec
Politics of Canada

References

Further reading

In

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 English

 Cornellier, Manon (1995).The Bloc, Toronto: James Lorimer & Co. [translated by Robert Chodos, Simon Horn and Wanda Taylor]
 <mask> (1994): On the Record, Toronto: Stoddart [translated by Dominique Clift]

In French
 Caron, Jean-François (2015), "<mask>, le pragmatisme politique", Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval
 Côté, André-Philippe and David, Michel (2001). Les années Bouchard, Sillery: Septentrion

 <mask> (1996). <mask>ard mot à mot, Montreal: Stanké, 384 p. [prepared by Rémi Maillard]
 <mask> (1992). À visage découvert, Montreal: Boréal
 <mask> profile in Vigile.net, 2008
 Bouchard profile in L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora, updated May 25, 2006
 Beauregard, Denis. "Généalogie de <mask>uchard", in FrancoGene, 2003
 Duguay, Nicolas. <mask>ard profile in Radio-Canada.ca, 2001

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Bilan du Siècle biography
<mask>ard page at CÉRIUM

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<mask> (1 March 1913 – 20 July 1995) was a historian of photography, collector, and photographer. Early life and education
Born in Munich, Germany, he was the third son of the academic librarian <mask> and his wife Hermine Scholz. He studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He took up photography in 1934 at the urging of his brother, :de:<mask>, who thought it a more practical profession, for someone from a partially Jewish background who intended to leave Nazi Germany. He graduated from the State School of Photography, Munich, after two years' study. Gernsheim started working as a colour photographer using the German Uvachrome process before going to Paris for an exhibition of his work and then to London to work on a commission from the National Gallery, London. World War II
At the outset of World War II, <mask> was deported on the Dunera and interned as a "friendly enemy alien" for a year at Hay in New South Wales, Australia along with other German nationals including Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack of the Bauhaus, Heinz Henghes (sculptor), Hein Heckroth (film and stage designer), George Teltscher (graphic artist), Klaus Friedeberger (painter), tenor Erich Liffmann, composer Ray Martin, artist Johannes Koelz, photographers Henry Talbot and Hans Axel, art historians Franz Phillipp and Ernst Kitzinger, author Ulrich Boschwitz, furniture designers Fred Lowen and Ernst Roedeck, and Erwin Fabian (sculptor).While interned, he lectured other internees on the aesthetics of photography and wrote his critique on photography, New Photo Vision, which was published in 1942 and led to his becoming a friend of fellow critic and historian Beaumont Newhall. <mask> earned his release from internment by volunteering to work for the National Buildings Record, returning to London in 1942 to photograph

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 important monuments with a view to revealing their artistic merits. These photographs became the basis of two more books. They were praised by critics including Kenneth Clark and Nikolaus Pevsner and in 1943 were described by The Architectural Review as "nothing short of a rediscovery of the Baroque monuments". Around this time he won a coveted position with the Warburg Institute as the chief photographer for the London area. He joined The Royal Photographic Society in 1940 become a Fellow (FRPS) in 1942. He met his future wife Alison in 1938 and, after she and her first husband, Blen Williams, divorced, they set up home together in 1942 and married at the end of the war.<mask> was granted British citizenship in 1946 and continued to live in London for most of his life. Collection
In 1945, at Newhall's prompting, <mask> and <mask> started collecting the works of historic photographers, especially British ones, which were disappearing. They amassed a huge collection containing work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Hill & Adamson, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Louis Daguerre. They rediscovered the long-lost hobby of Lewis Carroll when in 1947 <mask> stumbled across an album of Carroll's portraits in a junk shop. Ultimately this collection, along with an estimated 3–4 million words of notes on the subject led to his writing the 180,000-word book The History of Photography. When the first edition was published by the OUP in 1955 it became an instant classic and the definitive reference work for historians of photography for decades afterwards, being described by Beaumont Newhall as "a milestone in the history of photography" and by other reviewers as "the photographer's bible" and "an encyclopaedic work". Along the way, in 1952 <mask> rediscovered the long-lost world's first surviving

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 permanent photograph from nature, created by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1827 (View from the Window at Le Gras).<mask> and Alison continued to publish numerous articles and books on various aspects of photography and a variety of photographers. Ultimately, Gernsheim needed to find a home for his vast collection of over 33,000 photographs, 4,000 books, research notes, his own correspondence, and collected correspondence including letters by Daguerre and Fox Talbot. He sought unsuccessfully to found a national museum of photography in the UK (ultimately a National Museum did not happen until 1983). In the end, after many fruitless discussions with authorities and potential sponsors in several countries, he sold everything to the University of Texas at Austin in 1963 where it formed the basis of a new Department of Photography at the Humanities Research Center. His collection of modern photography was retained by him and ultimately passed to the Forum Internationale Photographie (FIP) at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim. Other
Photographs attributed to Gernsheim are held in the Conway Library at The Courtauld Institute of Art whose archive, primarily of architectural images, is being digitised under the wider Courtauld connects project. Later life, death
<mask> died on 27 March 1969 and <mask> remarried in 1971 to Irène Guénin.He continued a positive interest in photography, vigorously supporting the establishment of photographic galleries and museums in the USA and Britain, including The Photographers' Gallery under Sue Davies in 1971 and the National Museum of Photography Film and Television under Colin Ford in 1983. <mask> died on 20 July 1995. Honors and awards
1959: The Kulturpreis (Cultural Award) from the German Society for Photography (DGPh), with Robert Janker
1968: appointed consultant

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1975: elected to the Committee, Fondation pour la Photographie Suisse
1976: elected to the advisory committee of the journal History of Photography
1979: Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Texas
1980: Academician and Gold Medal of the Academia Italia delle Arti, Salsomaggiore
1980: Honorary Member of the Daguerre Club, Frankfurt. 1981: Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Arizona
Honorary Fellow of the Photographic Historical Society of New York
Honorary Fellow of the Club Daguerre, Frankfurt

Bibliography
 The history men: <mask> and Nicéphore Niépce text © 2013 Graham Harrison Photo Histories
 Alvin Langdon Coburn: Photographer, with <mask>, New York: Praeger,  1966. Beautiful London, New York: Phaidon, 1950. (photographs by <mask>)
Churchill: His Life in Photographs, <mask> and Randolph S. Churchill, eds., London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1955. A Concise History of Photography, with <mask>, 'The World of Art Library' series.London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends 1839–1960, London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1962. Edward VII and Queen Alexandra: A Biography in Word and Picture, with <mask>, London: Frederick Muller, 1962. Focus on Architecture and Sculpture, an original approach to the photography of architecture and sculpture,, London: Fountain Press, 1949. Fotografia Artistica: Tendinte Estetice 1839–1960, Bucuresti: Editura Meridiane 1970. Historic Events 1839–1939, with <mask>, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1960. The History of Photography From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914 with <mask>, London: Oxford University Press 1955; revised edition Thames & Hudson.1969
Incunabula of British Photographic Literature: A Bibliography of British Photographic Literature 1839–75

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 and British Books Illustrated with Original Photographs, London and Berkeley: Scolar Press in association with Derbyshire College of Higher Education 1984. Julia Margaret Cameron; her life and photographic work, London: Fountain Press, 1948. L. J. M. Daguerre. The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype, with <mask>, London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. [With “Bibliography of Daguerre’s Instruction Manuals” by Beaumont Newhall.] Lewis Carroll, photographer, London: Max Parrish, 1949. The Man Behind the Camera, <mask>, ed.London: Fountain Press [November] 1948 (foreword by Rathbone Holme). [With chapters on Cecil Beaton, <mask>, E.O. Hoppé, Angus McBean, Felix H. Man, Mrs. K.M. Parsons, W. Suchitzky, Harold White, and J. Allan Cash.] Masterpieces of Victorian Photography, London: Phaidon Press, 1951. The New Photo Vision, London: Fountain Press, 1942. The Origins of Photography, New York: Thames & Hudson, 1982.The Recording Eye. A Hundred Years of Great Events as Seen by the Camera, 1839–1939, with <mask>, New York: Putnam, 1960. Roger Fenton, Photographer of the Crimean War. His Photographs and his Letters from The Crimea, with <mask>, London: Secker & Warburg, 1954. Those Impossible English, with <mask>, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952. (text: Quentin Bell; photographs selected by <mask> and <mask>). Victoria R. A Biography with Four Hundred Illustrations based on her Personal Photograph Albums, with <mask>, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959.References

External links
 New York Times obituary. Accessed 6 June 2011. The history men: <mask> and Nicéphore Niépce on Photo Histories

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Sir <mask>,  (born 10 October 1956 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is a British industrialist and adventurer. He is the first person to complete the Adventurers Grand Slam, by reaching the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climbing the highest peaks in all seven continents, the first person to fly to the North Pole in a balloon, and the first person to make a balloon crossing of the Atlantic in an open basket. Early life

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He first summited Mount Everest in 1993, and summited Mount McKinley, Alaska, in 1980, and Mount Kilimanjaro in 1981.In 1984, he successfully completed a solo expedition to the Magnetic North Pole without dogs, snow mobiles or air supplies. Also he led the first team in 1992 to walk unsupported to the Geomagnetic North Pole. This was described in the book A Race Against Time. In 1996, he completed a solo unsupported expedition to the South Pole on 5 January, sailed to the South Magnetic Pole on 19 February, and led a team of novices to ski to the Magnetic North Pole on 15 May. The book Toughing it Out describes <mask>'s first 20 years of adventuring. In 1998 he joined Norwegian Rune Gjeldnes in an attempt to reach the Geographical North Pole, the final leg of his Grand Slam attempt, which he described in a book called Walking on Thin Ice. He became the first man to fly a balloon over the North Pole in 2000, a trip that emulated the ill-fated attempt by Salomon August

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 American Coy Foster in March 1983.On 10 October 2008 Hempleman-Adams, along with co-pilot Jon Mason won the 52nd Gordon Bennett Cup, having flown a helium balloon from Albuquerque, New Mexico eventually landing over 1000 miles later near Madison, Wisconsin. They are the first British team to win the coveted prize in 102 years. To coincide with the 100th anniversary of Scott's expedition to the South Pole, The Heart of the Great Alone was published with the Royal Collection. It brings together a selection of the astonishing photographs taken by Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley with commentary and narration by <mask>. In September 2010 he competed in the Gordon Bennett 2010 balloon race held in the UK for the first time. In May 2011 he led the Iceland Everest Expedition on the North Side of Everest. £1.2 Million was raised for their chosen charity.In October 2011, along with co-pilot Jon Mason, <mask> won the Americas Challenge Balloon race and in doing so set a new duration record for the race. They are the only British team to win both the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race and Americas Challenge. Personal and family life
Hempleman-Adams has worked in the chemical manufacturing business. He joined his father's company, Robnor (later Robnorganic Systems), later becoming managing director. The company was sold to Mason Corporation in 1995. Subsequently, he was non-executive chairman of Global Resins. He was a non-executive director of XP Power, a PLC Company based in Singapore which manufactures in the US, Europe, China and Vietnam.He is chairman of Hempleman Investment Company, a commercial property company. He lives in Wiltshire with his partner Dr Ros Smith  and has three daughters, Alicia, Camilla and Amelia, from his previous marriage. In February 2020 his eldest daughter, Alicia Hempleman-Adams, set the World Female Altitude

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<mask> (; born 27 February 1982) is a Brazilian professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is a six-time Grand Slam champion, having won the Australian Open and US Open in 2016 alongside Jamie Murray, and the 2020 US Open with Mate Pavić in men's doubles. In mixed doubles, <mask> won the 2012 US Open partnering Ekaterina Makarova, the 2014 US Open with Sania Mirza, and the 2016 Australian Open with Elena Vesnina. He also finished runner-up at the 2013 US Open and 2020 French Open in men's doubles, and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles. <mask> was the fourth Brazilian to win a Grand Slam title across all disciplines, following Maria Bueno, Thomaz Koch and Gustavo Kuerten. His highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour is world No. 221, which he reached in March 2004.In doubles, he reached his career-high ranking of world No. 2 on October 17, 2016. <mask> has won 35 ATP doubles titles, including 4 at Masters 1000 level, and was part of the ATP Doubles Team of the year in both 2016 and 2020. He has represented Brazil in the Davis Cup since 2005, and competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. Professional career

2008
In early 2008, <mask> won the São Paulo Challenger for the second time, rising in the doubles rankings and gaining the opportunity to compete in the main tournament circuit, the ATP tours. In 2008, <mask> made a great campaign. Playing without a permanent partner, he reached the semifinals of Roland Garros and the quarter-finals of the US Open.In addition, he won his first ATP doubles title in Nottingham, a grass tournament before Wimbledon. Helped by the winnings of the French Open, <mask> decided to finish 2008 marrying architect Bruna Alvim. The couple welcomed their first son, Noah, in 2015. 2009
In 2009, <mask> partnered with Kevin Ullyett from Zimbabwe, a high level doubles player who had won 32 titles and remained ranked among the top 10 for several years. They reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon

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 and Roland Garros, the semifinals of the Masters 1000 Rome and Madrid, the final of the ATP New Haven, and won his second ATP doubles title in Stockholm. At the end of the year, with the retirement of Ullyett, <mask> announced a new partnership with Marcelo Melo. 2010
In 2010, Melo and <mask>ros, <mask> defeated the brothers Bob Bryan and Mike Bryanthe world's top doubles playersand reached the quarterfinals. Subsequently, <mask> and Melo reached the semifinals of the ATP 500 Hamburg, the final of the ATP 250 Gstaad, the third round of the US Open, the final of the ATP 250 Metz, and the semifinals of the ATP 500 Tokyo and the ATP 250 Stockholm. 2011
In 2011 at the South American Clay tournamentsa series of four ATP tournaments in Latin AmericaMelo and <mask> won two consecutive titles in the ATP 250 of Chile and Brazil, and were runners-up at the ATP 500 Acapulco. In April, <mask> was runner-up of the Masters 1000 Monte Carlo, playing alongside Juan Ignacio Chela. He competed in the semifinals of the ATPs 250s in Nice and Eastbourne. In August, the Melo and <mask> arrived at the semifinals of the ATP 500 Washington.In October, with <mask> and Melo reached the semifinals of the ATP 500 Valencia and Tokyo, and the final of the ATP 250 Stockholm. Partnered with Nicolas Almagro he was a quarterfinalist in the Masters 1000 Shanghai. In November, <mask> and Melo were quarterfinalists in the Masters 1000 Paris. At the end of the year, Melo and <mask> ended their partnership. 2012
<mask> partnered with Eric Butorac and went to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and won his sixth ATP doubles title in the ATP 250 Brazil. He also reached the third round at Roland Garros. On July, he ended his partnership with Butorac and began playing with Alexander Peya.In the first tournament of the new partnership, they were runners-up of the ATP 250 Bastad. Participating at the London Olympics with Marcelo Melo, <mask> reached the quarterfinals after defeating the

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 duo Berdych/Stepanek by 24–22 in the last set. At the US Open along with Peya, <mask> reached the quarterfinals of the men's doubles. In that tournament, partnering with Ekaterina Makarova, <mask> won the biggest title of his career thus far by becoming mixed-doubles champion. In the first round, they defeated the seeded No. 2 couple Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond. In the second phase, they defeated Bob Bryan and Kim Clijsters.Since Gustavo Kuerten's 3rd Roland Garros victory in 2001, a Brazilian had not won a Grand Slam title. <mask>/Makarova won $150,000 as a prize for the title. After the mixed doubles title at the US Open, <mask> took an impressive winning streak, winning the doubles match of the Davis Cup in Brazil against Russia and won four titles in five consecutive tournaments played. He won the ATP 250 Kuala Lumpur and the ATP 500 Tokyo, both playing with Peya; they played the Masters 1000 Shanghai but lost in the second round. Partnered with Melo he won the ATP 250 Stockholm, and the ATP 500 Valencia playing with Peya. In the Masters 1000 Paris, <mask> and Peya were quarterfinalists. 2013

2013 was the best year in the <mask>' career.In January, he won the ATP 250 Auckland, alongside Scottish Colin Fleming. In February, partnered with Melo, he defeated the Bryan brothers at the Davis Cup in the United States. In the same month, he and Peya won the ATP 250 BrasilSoares' third win in that tournament and reached the semifinals of the ATP 500 in Memphis and Acapulco. In March, <mask> reached the semifinals of the Masters 1000 Indian Wells. In April, he won the ATP 500 Barcelona. In May, for the second time in his career, he was runner-up of a Masters 1000 in Madrid, losing only to the world leaders the Bryan brothers. At this point, <mask> approached the top 10 doubles, staying at 11th place.In Roland Garros, <mask> and Peya reached the semifinals of the tournament. With that, <mask> entered the top 10, ranking sixth for doubles. <mask>

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 equaled Carlos Kirmayr's No. 6 in the world in 1983 as the second-best doubles tennis player in Brazil's history. In preparation for Wimbledon, <mask> was runner-up in the ATP 250 Queens and champion of the ATP 250 Eastbourne, reaching its 200th victory. At Wimbledon, <mask> was knocked out in the third round of the men's doubles. In mixed doubles, <mask> reached the final of the tournament for the first time, partnered with the American Lisa Raymond.He was runner-up at the ATP 500 Hamburg in July. In August, <mask> and Peya won a Masters-1000 title for the first time at the Canadian Open. With that, <mask> arrived at the best doubles ranking of his career, No. 4 in the world, equaling Cássio Motta as the best Brazilian doubles player of all time. At the US Open, <mask> "retired" James Blake in the first round of the men's doubles. In mixed doubles, <mask> reached the semifinals partnered with Anabel Medina Garrigues. In men's doublesfor the first time in his careerhe reached a Grand Slam final.However, Peya suffered a muscle strain near the end of the semifinals game against Melo and Dodig. In the US Open final, <mask> could not play well because of the problem, and in the second set, Peya almost abandoned the game. <mask> and Peya eventually lost the final in two sets. With these results, <mask> qualified in anticipation for the ATP Finals for the first time in his career. On 7 October 2013, <mask> became the No. 3 doubles player in the world; his best position of his career and the best position in the history of Brazilian tennissurpassing Cassio Motta, who was No. 4 doubles in 1983.At the end of October, <mask> and Peya became two-time champions of the ATP 500 Valencia, defeating the Bryan brothers in the final. 2014
In 2014, the <mask>/Peya partnership was beginning not to work as before. During the year, they had as prominent campaigns only the title of the Masters 1000 in Canada and one runner-up finish at the Masters 1000 Indian Wells, as

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 well as a title in the ATP 250 in London. <mask> finished the year as No. 10 in the world. 2015
The partnership did not work well. Just as in 2014, they obtained only two quarterfinals in Grand Slam events, and the result in the Masters 1000 has worsened, with the pair getting only two semifinals in Miami and Canada.<mask> finished the year as No. 22 in the world. In October, <mask> announced the ending of his partnership with Alexander Peya, and a new partnership with Britain's Jamie Murray in the 2016 season. 2016

The <mask> and Murray partnership had an astonishing start. They reached the semifinals of the Doha ATP Tour 250, the first tournament of the season. On 16 January, <mask> and Murray won the second tournament of the season, the Sydney ATP Tour 250. On January 30, the duo won the Australian Open.It was <mask>' first Grand Slam title in men's doubles. <mask> defeated the team of the Czech Radek Štěpánek and the Canadian Daniel Nestor in three sets in the men's doubles final. <mask> partnered with Elena Vesnina in the mixed doubles and reached the final, where they overcame Horia Tecău and CoCo Vandeweghe in three sets. <mask> became the first Brazilian man to win two titles in the same Grand Slam. <mask> and Murray would combine to also win the US Open men's doubles title in 2016. <mask> ended the season at No. 1 in the ATP doubles race alongside Murray.2017
In the new season, the <mask>/Murray duo dropped a little income, not obtaining any Grand Slam or Masters 1000 titles. Their best results in these tournaments were the runner-up of the Masters 1000 of Cincinnati, the semifinals of the Masters 1000 of Indian Wells, Shanghai and Paris, and the quarterfinals of Roland Garros and the US Open. They won the ATP 500 from Acapulco, Queens, and the ATP 250 from Stuttgart. Thus, <mask> ended the year as No. 10 in the world in doubles. 2018
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 Shanghai Masters 1000, and a semifinalist in Rome and got quarterfinals at Wimbledon and the US Open.He became twice champion of the ATP 500 in Acapulco, won the ATP 500 in Washington, and was runner-up in the ATP 500 in Queens. The year ended as No. 7 in the world in doubles. 2019
In January, <mask> and partner Jamie Murray reached the quarterfinal at the Australian Open, but were defeated in straight sets. In May, they ended their three and a half year partnership after a first-round loss at the French Open. <mask> announced 2018 Australian Open and 2018 Davis Cup winner, Croatian Mate Pavić, as his new partner. His biggest title of the year was winning the Masters 1000 in Shanghai, playing with Pavic.He also won the Sydney ATP 250 with Murray, and the ATP 250 Stuttgart playing with John Peers. During a difficult year, he was still a semifinalist at the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo and Cincinnati, made the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and was runner-up in the ATP 500 in Barcelona. He ended the year outside the top 10, which had not happened since 2015, as No. 21 in the world. 2021
At the US Open, <mask>, partnering with Jamie Murray, reached the final for the fourth time in his career, defeating Filip Polášek and John Peers in the semifinals. Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 6 (3  titles, 3 runner-ups)

Mixed doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner-ups)

ATP career finals

Doubles: 69 (35 titles, 34 runner-ups)

Performance timelines

Doubles
Current through the 2022 Mexican Open. Mixed doubles

References

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Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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 near Málaga. <mask> died of leukaemia on 3 July 1994. Early life and career

<mask> was born on 23 November 1934, in the working-class Sydney inner suburb of Glebe, the eldest of three sons of tramway electrician <mask> and his wife Ailsa Lyle Burbury. Hoad started playing tennis at age five with a racket gifted by a local social club. As a young child, he would wake up at 5 a.m. and hit tennis balls against a wall and garage door until the neighbours complained, and he was allowed to practice on the courts of the Hereford Tennis Club behind the house.At age 10 he competed in the seaside tournament at Manly in the under 16 category. In his youth, <mask> often played Ken Rosewall, and they became known as the Sydney "twins", although they had very different physiques, personalities and playing styles. Their first match in Sydney in January 1947 (when both were aged 12) was played as an opener of an exhibition match between Australia and America. Rosewall won 6–0, 6–0. <mask> built up great physical strength, especially in his hands and arms, by training at a police boys' club, where he made a name as a boxer. <mask> was about 12 when he was introduced to Adrian Quist, a former Australian tennis champion and then general manager of the Dunlop sports goods company. Quist played a couple of sets with Hoad and was impressed by his natural ability.When Hoad was 14 he left school and joined the Dunlop payroll, following the pattern of that 'shamateur' era when most of Australia's brightest tennis prospects were employed by sporting goods companies. Hoad had just turned 15 when he and Rosewall were selected to play for New South Wales in an interstate

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 contest against Victoria. In November 1949, Hoad won the junior title at the New South Wales Championships, and the same weekend, he also competed in the final of the junior table tennis championship in Sydney. Tennis career

Amateur career: 1950–1957

1950
Hoad lost to Dick Savitt in four sets in round one of the New South Wales State championships in November. In his match report, Adrian Quist said, "Hoad played well, and held a lead of 4-2 in the third set after winning the second. At present he makes too many errors. He will have to learn good control from the ground before his game will reach great heights."<mask> reached the semi finals of County of Cumberland championships in Sydney in December, losing to Bill Sidwell. "It was apparent from the start of play that Sidwell did not intend to take the youngster lightly. He served with pressure and followed the majority of his returns to the net. The first set was very evenly contested. Had Hoad not fallen into easy errors he may well have won the opening set. The experience of Sidwell, however, prevailed during the important exchanges", said Adrian Quist. 1951
<mask>'s first Grand Slam tournament appearance was at the 1951 Australian Championships held in January at the White City Tennis Club in Sydney.He won his first match against Ronald McKenzie in straight sets but lost in the following round to defending champion and countryman Frank Sedgman. It was the only Grand Slam tournament he played that year. <mask> won his first men's singles title, the Brisbane Exhibition tournament at Milton, on grass, on 11 August 1951, defeating Rosewall in the final in four sets. In September, <mask> won

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 New South Wales hardcourt championships beating George Worthington in the final. 1952
In 1952, <mask> reached the third round of the Australian Championships in Adelaide. In April, he was selected by the Australasian Lawn Tennis Association as member of the team to play in overseas tournaments. In May, before departing to Europe, he won the singles title at the Australian Hardcourt Championships on clay after a five-set win in the final against Rosewall.<mask>, who had never played a tournament on European red clay courts, received a walkover in the first round of the French Championships and lost in straight sets to sixth-seeded and 1947 and 1951 finalist Eric Sturgess. In only their second appearance as a doubles team at a Grand Slam event, <mask> and Rosewall reached the French semifinal. <mask> lost in the quarterfinal of the Belgian championships in Brussels in early June, where he was defeated by Budge Patty. <mask>'s first entry at the grass court Queen's Club Championship in June 1952 ended in the quarterfinal against eventual champion Frank Sedgman. A week later, he played his first match at the Wimbledon Championships defeating Beppe Merlo in a nervous and unimpressive five-set encounter. Wins against Rolando del Bello and Freddie Huber were followed by a fourth round loss against second-seeded and eventual finalist Jaroslav Drobný. <mask> and Rosewall caused an upset when they defeated second-seeded Gardnar Mulloy and Dick Savitt in the third round of the doubles event, but lost in the semifinal against Vic Seixas and Eric Sturgess.After a semifinal result at the Swedish championships in July, and an exhibition between Australia and

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 West Germany, <mask> and the Australian team traveled to the United States under the guidance of coach Harry Hopman. As a preparation for his first U.S. Championships he played the Meadow Club Invitational (Southampton), Eastern Grass Court Championships (South Orange), and Newport Invitational before teaming up with Rosewall to reach the semifinal of the U.S. National Doubles Championships in Brookline. <mask> was the eighth seeded foreign player at the U.S. Championships. He won four matches to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal but due in part to making 64 errors could not overcome Sedgman who would win the tournament without losing a set. With Thelma Coyne Long he reached the final of the mixed doubles event, the first Grand Slam final of his career, but they lost in straight sets to Doris Hart and Frank Sedgman. An early loss at the Pacific Southwest Championships in September concluded his first overseas tour. In September, he was jointly ranked No.10 in the world for 1952 with Rosewall by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph. 1953

<mask> started 1953 poorly in the singles with a second-round exit against Clive Wilderspin at the Australian Championships in Melbourne after playing an uncharacteristic baseline game. He was more successful in doubles where he and Rosewall became the youngest team to win the Australian doubles title after a victory in the final against Mervyn Rose and Don Candy. In March, <mask> defended his singles title at the Australian Hardcourt Championships, defeating Rosewall in a five set semifinal in which he survived six matchpoints, and 34-year-old John Bromwich in the final. Two weeks later, <mask> lost the

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texts: final of the N.S.W. Hardcourt Championships against Mervyn Rose. <mask>'s second overseas tour started in late April, and after an exhibition in Cairo at the Gezira Sporting Club, he reached the final at Italian Championships in Rome losing to Drobný in straight sets but won the doubles title with Rosewall.At the French Championships in May, <mask> was seeded fourth and made it to the quarterfinals in which he lost to Vic Seixas due to overhitting and an unreliable serve. <mask> and Rosewall won the doubles title with a three-set win in the final against countrymen Rose and Wilderspin. In June <mask>'s attacking serve-and-volley game proved too good for Wimbledon favorite Rosewall in the final of the Queen's Club Championship and he won the tournament without losing a set. At Wimbledon, <mask> was seeded sixth, and as at the French, Vic Seixas defeated him in the quarterfinal, this time in a close five-set match that ended on a Hoad double fault. In an all-Australian doubles final <mask> and Rosewall defeated Hartwig and Rose. <mask> lost to Enrique Morea in the final of the Dutch Championships in mid July. He won his first title on U.S. soil in South Orange at the Eastern Grass Court Championships in mid August, defeating compatriot Rex Hartwig in the final.In the semifinal against Rosewall, he pulled a back muscle. <mask> and Rosewall's hopes of winning the doubles Grand Slam, two years after fellow Australians Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman had first achieved that feat, were dashed when they lost surprisingly in the third round of the U.S. Doubles Championships. At the U.S. Championships <mask> (second foreign seed) won four matches to reach

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texts: the semifinal where for the third time in 1953 he lost in a Grand Slam event to Vic Seixas. Following his defeat, and that of Rosewall in the other semifinal, there was criticism in the press that both 18-year-old players were physically and mentally worn out due to the intensive schedule imposed by coach Harry Hopman. In September, Seixas again beat <mask>, this time in the semifinal of the Pacific Southwest Championships in Los Angeles. <mask> was rested a few weeks upon his return to Australia and then won the Queensland Championships in early November in a 41-minute final against Hartwig. Two weeks later, <mask> won the N.S.W.Championships after four-set victories over Tony Trabert in the semi-final and over Rosewall in the final in front of a 10,000 Sydney crowd but had trouble with a sore right elbow. In early December at the Victorian Championships he defeated Rosewall in the final. The much anticipated Davis Cup challenge round match against the challenging team from the United States took place at the Melbourne Kooyong Stadium in late December. Surprisingly Hartwig was selected to partner <mask> in the doubles instead of Rosewall, a decision widely criticized in the press. In the opening singles matches, <mask> defeated Seixas, his nemesis that season, in straight sets, while Trabert defeated Rosewall, also in straight sets. <mask> and Hartwig lost the doubles match against Seixas and Trabert and Australia trailed 1–2 at the start of the final day. <mask> is remembered for his match as a 19-year-old amateur against the United States champion Tony Trabert.In front of a 17,000 crowd, <mask> defeated Trabert in five sets to help his

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 country retain the Cup. It was seen as one of the best Davis Cup matches in history. Directly following the final, <mask> received his call-up papers for National Service. <mask> was ranked world No. 5 amateur for 1953 by Lance Tingay in his September rankings. At the end of the year, <mask> was ranked world No. 1 amateur for the complete season of 1953 by Harry Hopman and also by the editors of Tennis de France, published by Philippe Chatrier.Tingay stated in September 1954 that <mask> in 1953 had  "played so well during the Australian season that his status as best in the world was axiomatic." He added that for the 1954 season, "His form since has been almost disastrous. <mask>'s decline has been a mystery." <mask> was the youngest tennis player ever at 19 years 38 days to achieve world No. 1 rankings, a record which still stands. 1954

In January, <mask> played just one tournament before entering his National Service training. At the South Australian Championships in Adelaide he reached the final but sub-par play led to a straight-sets defeat to Trabert.On 13 January, <mask> joined the 13th National Service Training battalion in Ingleburn for a period of 98 days and commented that "It will be a welcome break from tennis". As a consequence, <mask> was unable to participate in the Australian Championships. At the end of February, <mask> received a leave from service to play for the Australian team at Kooyong stadium in the third Test match against South Africa in front of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. He won a singles match against Abe Segal, won a doubles match with Rosewall and lost a mixed-doubles match with his girlfriend Jenny Staley.

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texts: When <mask> returned to service, he was bitten by a spider while on maneuvers which caused him to become ill and hospitalized him for ten days. He spent two days in coma which was not made public. While he was in service, <mask> devised a weight-lifting exercise, doing push-ups with round 50 lb.weights placed on his back, which <mask> later believed probably initiated his back trouble. <mask> left the National Service at the end of April and his third overseas tour with an Australian team started on 5 May. For the first time in his career, <mask> was the top-seeded player at a Grand Slam tournament at the French Championships but he lost in the fourth round to 40-year-old Gardnar Mulloy. <mask> lost the doubles final with Rosewall to Seixas and Trabert in 56 minutes. Partnering Maureen Connolly, who had won the women's singles title, <mask> won the mixed-doubles final against Jacqueline Patorni and Rex Hartwig. In June, <mask> overcame countryman Rose in the final of the Queen's Club Championship to successfully defend his title. <mask> was seeded second behind Trabert at Wimbledon Championships.In the fourth round, <mask> avenged his loss to Mulloy at the French Championships, defeating him in four sets. In the quarterfinal the powerful service and excellent returns of Drobný proved too much for <mask> and he was beaten in straight sets within an hour. <mask> and Rosewall were unable to defend their Wimbledon doubles title after losing in fives sets in the semifinal to Seixas and Trabert. A surprise loss against Roger Becker in the semifinal at the Midlands Counties Championships in Birmingham was followed in mid-July by winning the singles

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texts: title at the Swiss Championships in Gstaad. As in the previous year, <mask> met Rosewall in the Eastern Grass Court Championships in August, this time in the final, and again the titleholder was victorious, overpowering Rosewall to win the singles title in three straight sets. At Newport in mid August, <mask> was beaten by 17-year-old compatriot Roy Emerson who won the deciding set 8–6. For the third time in 1954, Seixas and Trabert defeated <mask> and Rosewall at a Grand Slam doubles event, winning the U.S. Doubles Championships in Brookline.<mask>, no. 1 foreign seed at the U.S. Championships, lost to Ham Richardson in a five-set quarterfinal. His lackluster form continued when he was defeated by unseeded Luis Ayala in the quarterfinal of the Pacific Southwest Championships in mid-September. After returning to Australia at the end of September, <mask> scheduled extra practice to work on his serve and volley but subsequently lost to Don Candy in the semifinal of the Sydney Metropolitan Championships. In early November, matters briefly improved. In the final of the Queensland Championships in Brisbane, he overcame a sunstroke and the loss of sets three and four by 0–6 to defeat Hartwig in five sets. In mid-November, he was upset by veteran John Bromwich who better exploited the windy conditions in the quarterfinal of the N.S.W.Championships. At the Victorian Championships, the last significant tournament before the Davis Cup Challenge Round, <mask> was defeated in straight sets in the semifinal by Seixas. As in the previous match against Sven Davidson he showed such poor form and at times an apparent lack of interest that he was jeered by the


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 crowd and several left after he smashed a ball into the stands. The 1954 Davis Cup Challenge Round was played on 27–29 December on the grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney between title holders Australia and the United States. <mask> lost the first rubber to Trabert, in front of a record crowd of 25,000, in a high-quality four-set match. Rosewall also lost his singles match and the United States won back the cup after Seixas and Trabert defeated <mask> and Rosewall in four sets in the doubles rubber. In a season review article in the Dunlop Lawn Tennis Annual & Almanack editor and former tennis player G.P.Hughes mentioned that "<mask> in particular had a bad year". In a 1956 interview, <mask> admitted that especially in 1954 he often got fed-up with tennis and didn't care whether he played or not. In September, <mask>'s world ranking had slipped to No. 7 in Tingay's ranking. Tingay, Chatrier and other writers ranked <mask> world No. 5 in a collaborative ranking. However, <mask> was ranked world No.4 in Ned Potter's rankings for 1954 in World Tennis, which was a higher ranking than Potter had given <mask> in 1953 at No. 5. 1955
<mask> was unable to play the South Australian tennis championship in early January due to a torn ligament. To some surprise he entered the mixed doubles event at the 1955 Australian Championships with his girlfriend Jenny Staley and the pair finished as runner-ups to Thelma Coyne Long and George Worthington. In the singles event, <mask> reached his first Grand Slam tournament final after solid wins over Seixas (quarterfinal) and Hartwig (semifinal). In the final Rosewall's accuracy and control were too strong


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texts: for him and he lost in three straight sets. <mask> did not participate in the French Championships as the Davis Cup team that he was part of only left for Europe at the end of May during the Championships.In the singles final of the Queen's Club Championship in mid-June <mask>, who was married earlier that day, lost his service seven times and lost to Rosewall in two straight sets but won the doubles event with Hartwig. <mask> was the fourth-seeded player at the Wimbledon Championships at the end of June. In his quarterfinal match against seventh-seeded Budge Patty, his game lacked accuracy and he conceded a break in each set resulting in a loss in straight sets. Having lost the Davis Cup in 1954, Australia had to play through the 1955 Davis Cup preliminary rounds to challenge holders United States. In July, Australia defeated Mexico, Brazil and Canada to win the Americas Zone and subsequently beat Japan and Italy in the Inter-zone matches in August. In the Challenge Round at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills from 26 to 28 August, <mask> defeated the French and Wimbledon champion Trabert in four sets in his first singles rubber and with Hartwig won the doubles match to reclaim the Davis Cup for Australia. These were the first ever tennis matches televised in color, on the first national color broadcast by NBC television.<mask> was no. 2 foreign seed at the U.S. Championships held from 2 to 11 September, immediately after the Davis Cup Challenge Round, on the muddy courts of Forest Hills. In the quarterfinal, he lost his service three times in succession in the third set and suffered a straight-sets defeat in 50 minutes against Trabert, the


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 first-seeded U.S. player, and eventual champion. In his first significant tournament after the U.S. Championships, <mask> won the New South Wales Championships in November after a win in the final against Rosewall. In December, he won the singles title at the Victorian Championships after a tough five-sets final win over 19-year old Ashley Cooper. In September, he was ranked No. 3 in the world according to Tingay, and was ranked world No.3 for 1955 by Ned Potter. 1956

<mask> started the year with a five-set defeat in the final of the South Australian Championships against countryman Neale Fraser. At the following Manly tournament, the crowd overflowed the stands during the final hindering Rosewall's "baseline defensive game" more than <mask>'s attacking style, resulting in a straight-sets win for <mask> in 35 minutes. At the Australian Championships in Brisbane, <mask> overcame a two sets to one deficit against Mervyn Rose in the quarterfinal and beat Neale Fraser in the semifinal to reach his second consecutive Australian final, where he overcame titleholder Rosewall in four sets to win his first Grand Slam singles title. He won the doubles title with Rosewall against Don Candy and Mervyn Rose. At the beginning of March, <mask> and his wife left for an overseas private tour (a tour sanctioned but not organised by the Australian tennis federation). First stop of the tour was Cairo where <mask> won the singles title at the Egyptian Championships against Sven Davidson followed by a tournament win in Alexandria over Fred Kovaleski.At Monte Carlo in late March, he was surprisingly beaten by Tony Vincent in the quarterfinal. In the Australian

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texts: New York. <mask> lost the U.S. Championships final at Forest Hills in four sets to Rosewall. <mask> and Rosewall won the doubles title against Seixas and Richardson. In September <mask> defeated Luis Ayala in the semifinal and Sven Davidson in a four set final at the O'Keefe Invitational at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club in Rosedale, Toronto on red clay  and at the Pacific Southwest Championships, the last leg of his overseas tour, Hoad was beaten by Alex Olmedo in the third round.In November he lost the final of the Queensland Championships to Ashley Cooper in five sets and was hindered by numbness in the serving arm between the elbow and the wrist. In mid December <mask> and Rosewall competed in the final of the Victorian Championships which was their last final as amateurs as Rosewall turned professional at the end of the month. The final started late due to rain and was stopped due to darkness at two sets to one for <mask> but the following day Rosewall won the last two sets and the title. In late December, <mask> was part of the Australian Davis Cup team which defended the Cup in the Challenge Round against the United States. <mask> was confined to bed with back pain for the two days prior to the Davis Cup matches, and was relieved to find that he could play well. In his last Davis Cup appearance, <mask> won both his singles rubbers, against Herbie Flam and Seixas, as well as his doubles match with Rosewall to help Australia to a 5–0 victory. <mask> was ranked world No.1 amateur by Lance Tingay in September, by Ned Potter in October in World Tennis and at the end of the year by Tennis de France. <mask> won 16 tournaments in 1956, and 17


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<mask> played poorly in early 1957, due to back trouble, and was placed in an upper body cast for six weeks, following which he slowly returned to tennis competition in April 1957. He then experienced a period of pain-free playing for 11 months. He won the Northern Championships in Manchester, beating Ramanathan Krishnan in the final. <mask> won his second successive Wimbledon singles title, defeating Ashley Cooper in a straight-sets final that lasted 57 minutes. Professional career: 1957–1973

1957
After winning the 1957 Wimbledon title, <mask> turned professional by signing a two-year contract with Kramer for a record guarantee of US$125,000, or AUS£55,500, which included a US$25,000 bonus for winning the 1957 Wimbledon singles title.This was the highest guarantee that would be given to an amateur turning pro, with Laver receiving the second highest. <mask>'s business relationship with Kramer in 1957 and later was congenial and smooth compared to the experiences of Pancho Gonzales. <mask> would later claim, "I never had a problem with Jack Kramer." On 14 July 1957, <mask> won his debut match as a professional against Frank Sedgman at the Forest Hills Tournament of Champions, broadcast live nationally on the CBS television network. He won his next match, against Pancho Segura, but lost the last three to finish joint third in the round robin event behind Gonzales and Sedgman. After Forest Hills, <mask> commented on the difference between amateur and professional tennis: "It's an entirely different league. These pros make mistakes but they don't make them on vital points.That's the difference.". At the following Masters round


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 robin tournament played on cement courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Club he lost all six of his matches to finish in last place, commenting "I don't like cement courts...". After these defeats Kramer commented that <mask> would have to change his playing style: "His second serve is too shallow. His opponents massacre it. He must shorten his backhand or play deeper in his returning service." Kramer expected that <mask> would improve on the upcoming indoor circuit. In September <mask> embarked on a four month 4-man tour of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia together with Kramer (Sedgman replaced Kramer in Australia), Rosewall, and Segura.Kramer and <mask> were interviewed live on BBC television. Kramer gave his estimation of <mask>'s game: "I feel that he's potentially the best player that tennis might ever have." Kramer cited <mask>'s recent marathon win over Rosewall at The Hague on red clay as evidence of improvement in his play. At the Wembley Indoor Pro Championships in late September, Kramer eliminated <mask>, defeating him in straight sets, and Kramer also defeated Gonzales for third place. The two players would be Kramer's headliners in the upcoming world pro tennis championship tour. In the 4-man tour of 1957, <mask> finished with slight edges over the other players, 16–15 over Rosewall, 16–14 over Kramer, 13–9 over Segura, 4–2 over Sedgman. <mask> was ranked combined world No.3 behind Gonzales and Sedgman and ahead of Rosewall and Segura for 1957 by Quist. 1958
In 1958 a projected series of 100 head-to-head matches was commenced between <mask> and the reigning champion of professional tennis, Pancho Gonzales, together


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In early 1959, it was announced that the Australian oil company Ampol, would provide an award of AUS£2,500 (US$5,600), plus the Ampol Open Trophy, to the "acknowledged world's best tennis player", adjudged from a world series of tournaments managed by Jack Kramer. All of the best pros would be ranked by a point system which would determine the seeding list for all tournaments. The first five tournaments of the series were played in Australia on a portable outdoor wooden plywood court, playing slow on a sand/paint surface for traction, but with no sliding possible. <mask> began the series slowly, hampered by an elbow injury. At the end of January, <mask> defeated Rosewall and Cooper to win at Perth and in February 1959, he defeated Rosewall in three sets to win the South Australian Pro tournament at the Norwood Cricket Oval in Adelaide.This gave <mask> the lead in Ampol bonus points after the first group of five tournaments, a lead which he would not relinquish until the Ampol Open Trophy series ended in January 1960. In the four-man 1959 Kramer World Professional Championship Tour, which ran from 20 February – 31 May in North America, <mask> built a lead of 12 to 5 in his series of matches against Gonzales, after a win in Newcastle, Pennsylvania in late April. Gonzales stated that "I had blisters under my blisters from the punishment" on that tour. However, the daily grind of the tour began to cause a renewal of <mask>'s back trouble, and he finally won against Gonzales by 15 matches to 13. He also won his head-to-head's with newly turned pro Ashley Cooper


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 in four sets, to claim the title. Gonzales appeared tired near the end of the match, but had declared in an interview prior to the final, "I feel fit, very fit. Until <mask> beats me, I'm not worried." In the August 1959 issue of World Tennis, Riggs wrote of the Forest Hills final, "the match signified the end of an era. The great Gonzales who had dominated professional tennis for four years had been decisively beaten..."

In August 1959, <mask> defeated Cawthorn and Worthington to reach the final of  the Slazenger Pro Championships in Eastbourne, but lost to Cooper in the final.In September, <mask> lost to Sedgman in the semifinal of the French Pro at Roland Garros, part of the Ampol series, but defeated Rosewall in a playoff for third place. At the Wembley Indoor Championships, part of the Ampol series, <mask> was upset by Segura in the second round, and Segura eventually lost the final to Anderson in a close match. In the Grand Prix de Europe tour from August to October, which excluded Roland Garros and Wembley, <mask> finished in third place behind Sedgman and Rosewall (Gonzales defaulted the European tour). <mask> won the Perth and Adelaide Memorial Drive events in November and December to begin the final group of Ampol tournaments, which were played on grass courts in tennis stadiums. At the Sydney White City Tournament of Champions from 8–13 December, <mask> injured his hip in the semifinal against Anderson, and lost the final to Gonzales in straight sets. At Brisbane Milton Courts from 15–19 December, Rosewall defeated <mask> in the semifinal and Gonzales in the final in long matches. The final event of the Ampol Open Trophy series, the


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<mask> decided not to play in the 1960 world championship tour and took a three-month layoff at the beginning of 1960 to rest his back and spend time with his family. When he returned to play, he was rusty, slow, and carried some extra weight, but he gradually recovered his form. He won a New Zealand tour in April, over Anderson, Sedgman, and Cooper. In May, <mask> commenced his participation in Kramer's tournament series for 1960, which used a point system to rank the players. Gonzales withdrew from the tournament series just before it began. <mask> lost a five-set final to Rosewall at the Melbourne Olympic Pool where a court was set up on the drained pool floor. <mask>, Rosewall, and most of the pros did not play in the Cleveland World Pro which, as in 1959, was not a part of Kramer's tournament series.However, <mask> and Trabert played a match in Cincinnati, Trabert's home town, won by <mask>, just before the Cleveland event, where Trabert would be runner-up to Olmedo. <mask> won tournament finals in June at Santa Barbara, California and in September at Geneva, Switzerland, both over Rosewall, but appeared out of condition in the Roland Garros final against Rosewall. At the Wembley Indoor Championships that year, <mask> was again upset by


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 Segura in the second round. In late 1960, <mask> won the inaugural Japanese Professional Championships in Tokyo, beating Rosewall, Cooper, and Gimeno. The event drew 7,000 fans for each of the four evenings of play, with the Crown Prince and Princess in attendance the first evening. In the final, <mask> prevailed at 13–11 in the fifth set over Rosewall, saving three match points. Following the marathon Tokyo final, <mask> withdrew from the remaining tournaments in the point series with back trouble, and the final projected tournament in Australia was not played.The final results of Kramer's tournament series for 1960 are unknown. <mask> and Gonzales did not play against each other in 1960. <mask> was ranked world No. 2 professional tennis player behind Gonzales in a newspaper report. 1961

<mask> played a few one-set matches on the 1961 Professional World Series tour in January, but soon withdrew because of a broken left foot and was substituted for by first Trabert and then Sedgman. He finished fourth in a tour of five Soviet cities in July, behind Trabert, Buchholz, and Segura, returning to play after his broken foot had healed. In late August and September, <mask> and Gonzales played a ten-match best-of-three sets tour of Britain and Ireland, with Buchholz and Davies playing the undercard matches.<mask> won his series against Gonzales by a score of six matches to four. <mask> won four of the five matches in the series which were played on grass. In September, <mask> lost in the first round of the French Pro to Luis Ayala. At the Wembley Pro, <mask> defeated Gonzales in a four-set semifinal. In the final against Rosewall, in the second game of

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 the match, <mask> pulled his back while running for a backhand volley and suffered a recurrence of his old back injury, and could no longer run, losing in four sets. In November, <mask> won the fifth and deciding rubber for Australia against the United States in the final of the inaugural Kramer Cup (the pro equivalent of the Davis Cup) by beating Trabert in four sets. Trabert said afterwards: "Trying to stop Lew in that final set was like fighting a machine gun with a rubber knife".Robert Roy in L'Équipe ranked <mask> as the third-best player of the year. In July 1961 Gardnar Mulloy rated <mask> as world No. 1 ahead of Gonzales, and the favourite to win a prospective open Wimbledon. 1962
There was no official pro championship tour in 1962, as Laver and Emerson had declined to accept pro offers made by Kramer at the 1961 Wimbledon. Kramer resigned as tour promoter and director. From 14 to 17 March 1962, <mask> won the Adelaide Professional Championships, beating Rosewall, Gimeno, and Sedgman, the final against Rosewall very close. On 12 August 1962, <mask> was awarded the Facis Trophy for winning the pro tour of Italy.In late August, <mask> played a five-match, best-of-three sets tour in Britain against Trabert, defeating Trabert at Nottingham, Edinburgh, Bournemouth, and Dublin, while Trabert won at Scarborough. <mask> won the professional tournament in Zürich in September 1962 by a win in the final against Pancho Segura. In late September, <mask> lost to Rosewall in a -hour, four-set final at Wembley. <mask> and Rosewall teamed to win the doubles final at both Roland Garros and Wembley. In the 1962 Kramer Cup tournament, in best-of-five set


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 formats, <mask> defeated Gimeno in the semifinal tie in Turin, Italy on clay, and <mask> won the opening match of the final at Adelaide in December against Olmedo on grass. <mask> was voted the world No. 1 tennis player for 1962, amateur or professional, in a UPI poll of 85 U.S. sports editors held at the end of January 1963 following the Australian tour.1963
In January 1963, <mask> and Rosewall guaranteed the contract of new pro Rod Laver. <mask> defeated Laver 8–0 in an Australian tour, some of their matches played to best-of-five and televised from sold-out stadiums. On Laver's pro debut on 5 January, <mask> beat Laver at White City stadium in Sydney on a "slippery" grass surface. Their match at the Kooyong stadium in Melbourne on grass was a close contest, with Laver extending <mask> to five sets before losing. After the Australian series, <mask> was inactive for five months, partly due to a shoulder injury. <mask> did not plan to participate in the World Tour for 1963. On his return in June, he lost to Laver in the semifinal of the Adler Pro, and at the Forest Hills U.S.Pro tournament he lost to Buchholz in the first round. The Forest Hills event did not have a television contract, was a financial failure, and the players, with the exception of Gonzales, were not paid. At the French Pro indoor event at Stade Coubertin in September, <mask> was defeated in straight sets by Rosewall in the semifinal and lost the third place play-off against Sedgman. At the Wembley Pro, he reached the final after surviving a marathon semifinal against Buchholz in which he strained his leg muscle and was limping throughout most of the match. McCauley acclaimed


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In February and March 1964, <mask> played a 16-day 24-match best-of-three sets tour of New Zealand with Laver, Rosewall, and Anderson. <mask> and Laver both finished on top with seven wins and five losses, but <mask> won first place with a 3 to 1 head-to-head score against Laver. In late September 1964, <mask> and Gonzales played a four match best-of-three sets head-to-head series in Britain, at Brighton, Carlyon Bay (Cornwall), Cardiff (Wales), and Glasgow (Scotland). <mask> won at Carlyon Bay and Cardiff, while Gonzales won at Brighton and Glasgow. <mask> experienced foot trouble in 1964 and finished in sixth place in the tournament series point system.In early 1965, much of his large right toe was removed, and he was only able to play a limited schedule thereafter. <mask> won his final victories against Laver in January 1966 at White City in Sydney, his home town, defeating him in straight sets, and at Forest Hills, New York in a round robin match in June 1966. After the expiration of his seven-year contract on 14 November 1966, <mask> withdrew from competitive play for ten months. <mask> and his wife invested in the development of a tennis club and real estate holdings in southern Spain. He returned unexpectedly to


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Back problems plagued <mask> throughout his career and forced his retirement from the tennis tour in October 1967 but the advent of the Open Era enticed him to make sporadic appearances at tournaments. <mask> lost in the final of the Irish Championships at Dublin in July 1968 to Tom Okker in straight sets, hampered by a thigh injury. In November 1969, <mask> won the Dewar Cup Aberavon singles title, part of the Dewar Cup indoor circuit, defeating Mark Cox in the semifinal and Bob Hewitt in the final, both wins in two straight sets.At the 1970 Italian Open, he lost in the third round in four sets to Alex Metreveli. At the 1970 French Open, he defeated Charlie Pasarell in four close sets, and reached the


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 fourth round before succumbing to eventual finalist Željko Franulović. At Wimbledon that year he lost in the second round to Ismail El Shafei. <mask> won his final tennis tournament title in singles on 7 August 1971, the Playmon Fiesta 71, on red clay at Benidorm, Spain. He defeated Antonio Muñoz in the semifinal and Manuel Santana in the final by identical scores of 9–7, 6–3. This would mark a twenty-year span during which Hoad won men's singles titles in tennis, between the ages of 16 and 36, dating back to the Brisbane tournament of August 1951. In spring 1972, <mask> played the doubles final at Italian Open with Frew McMillan against Ilie Năstase and Ion Ţiriac.<mask>/McMillan led 2–0 in sets but retired at 3–5 down in the fifth set in protest of the poor light conditions and the antics of the Rumanian pair. At the end of June, at the age of 37, <mask> made his final Wimbledon appearance losing in the first round to Jürgen Fassbender in four sets. <mask>'s final match was a first round loss to Jurgen Fassbender in Johannesburg in November 1973. From 1970 to 1974, <mask> was the coach of the Spanish Davis Cup team. According to research done for a 1970 British Pathé documentary film about Hoad's tennis ranch, Hoad had "made about GBP 350,000 as a professional". Per a 1977 newspaper interview, “Throughout his career, Hoad earned a total of £250,000, less than many pros collect in a year now. He received £150 for his Wimbledon victories; the payoff now is £17,500.”

Career summary

<mask>'s win/loss ratio for 1956 in all matches was 114/129 or 88%.His win ratio in 1958 was 41% (winning 64 of 155 matches). However, <mask>'s win rates on the


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 other ten players in the Ampol series, winning 33 of 43 matches (77%), while Gonzales won 21 of 28 (75%), and this gave <mask> the overall victory in the series.<mask> won six tournaments compared to Gonzales' four, and he had 6 wins and 2 losses against Rosewall on the 1959 Ampol series, while Gonzales had 1 win and 3 losses against Rosewall. <mask> had a 15–13 edge over Gonzales in their meetings on the 4-man championship tour of 1959, but <mask> was deprived of overall victory on this tour because he was less consistent than Gonzales when facing the rookie pros, Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper. <mask>'s combined record against the rookies was 27–7 compared to Gonzales’ 34–0. <mask> was a dominant doubles player. He won nine Grand Slam doubles titles, including one Mixed doubles title, and a Career Grand Slam in men's doubles. <mask> won 21 major men's doubles titles over 14 seasons (eight Grand Slam, thirteen Pro Slam), a pre-Open era record, shared with Rosewall. He also won the 1959 Forest Hills TOC doubles title.Rosewall won 24 major men's doubles titles over 20 seasons, and Mike Bryan won 18 over 15 seasons. <mask> and Rosewall together as a doubles team won 15 major doubles titles (six Grand Slam plus nine Pro Slam), one fewer than the Bryan brothers at 16. <mask> and Trabert won four major doubles titles together (three French Pro, one Wembley Pro) plus the 1959 Forest Hills TOC doubles title. <mask> won a record seven French Pro men's doubles titles, and consecutively. Playing style

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 opportunity, though he also had the skill to win the French Championships on the slower clay court. <mask> played right-handed and had a powerful serve and groundstrokes. <mask>'s game was reported to lack consistency in some accounts.At times <mask> had difficulty maintaining concentration. According to Kramer, "<mask> had the loosest game of any good kid I ever saw. There was absolutely no pattern to his game.... He was the only player I ever saw who could stand six or seven feet behind the baseline and snap the ball back hard, crosscourt. He'd try for winners off everything, off great serves, off tricky short balls, off low volleys. He hit hard overspin drives, and there was no way you could ever get him to temporise on important points." <mask> was runner-up for the Australian junior table tennis championship in 1951, and developed strong wrists and arms through heavy weight-lifting regimes.<mask> would use wrist strength in his strokes to make last split-second changes in racquet direction. He would saw off about an inch from the ends of his racquet handles, which were short to begin with, and move the grip higher to wield his racquets as if they were ping-pong bats. <mask> would use wrist action to give heavy topspin to his groundstrokes. Assessment

By journalists

In The Encyclopedia of Tennis (1973) veteran sportswriters Allison Danzig and Lance Tingay as well as tennis coach, writer and former player Harry Hopman listed their personal choices of the ten greatest players in tennis history. Only Tingay included <mask> in his list, ranking him in fifth position, behind Tilden, Budge, Laver and Gonzales. Max Robertson, tennis author and


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In a 1963 article in World Tennis, Rosewall judged Gonzales to be a notch above <mask> but stated that "...the latter is the greatest of all time when he is 'on'. ", an opinion echoed by Frew McMillan. In 2010, Rosewall rated <mask> at the top of his personal list of the top four greatest tennis players of all time,

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 remark which Pancho Gonzales had said to him, "If there was ever a Universe Davis Cup, and I had to pick one man to represent Planet Earth, I would pick <mask> <mask> in his prime." Fred Perry in 1978 ranked Hoad in an elite group, placing Borg among Kramer, <mask>, Gonzales and Vines as the greatest players of all time.Don Budge stated, “If <mask> <mask> was on, you may as well just go home or have tea, because you weren’t going to beat him.”

Kramer had a negative assessment of <mask>'s consistency. Although Kramer ranked him one of the 21 best players of all time, albeit in his second echelon, he also writes that "when you sum Hoad up, you have to say that he was overrated. He might have been the best, but day-to-day, week-to-week, he was the most inconsistent of all the top players." Kramer compared <mask> to Ellsworth Vines. "Both were very strong guys. Both succeeded at a very young age.... Also, both were very lazy guys. Vines lost interest in tennis (for golf) before he was thirty, and <mask> never appeared to be very interested.Despite their great natural ability, neither put up the outstanding records that they were capable of. Unfortunately, the latter was largely true because both had physical problems." Kramer had a positive evaluation of <mask>'s game at peak, “When Lew felt like playing, man, he was really something. I never saw anybody who could snap the ball back hard off both sides from way behind the baseline for winners the way he did.” Kramer stated in 1981, "Everybody loved <mask>, even Pancho Gonzales. They should put that on <mask>'s tombstone as the ultimate praise for the man.... Even when <mask> was clobbering

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<mask> proposed to his girlfriend, Australian tennis player Jenny Staley, on her 21st birthday party in March 1955 and they planned to announce their engagement in June in London while both were on an overseas tour. After arrival in London Jenny


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texts: discovered that she was pregnant and the couple decided to get married straight away. The marriage took place the following day on 18 June 1955 at St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, in London, on the eve of Wimbledon fortnight. They had two daughters and a son. After announcing his retirement in 1967, due to persistent back problems, <mask> moved to Fuengirola, Spain, near Málaga, where he and his wife owned and operated a tennis resort, <mask>'s Campo de Tenis.For more than thirty years they entertained personal friends such as actors Stewart Granger, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Deborah Kerr and her husband  writer Peter Viertel, actor Kirk Douglas, singer Frank Sinatra and saxophonist Stan Getz. <mask>'s son Peter stated, "My dad was extremely well connected." In September 1978, <mask>'s back problem was successfully treated with spinal fusion surgery, and he was relieved of pain. There had been two ruptured discs and a herniation. The doctor asked one of <mask>'s friends, "How on earth did this man walk, let alone play tennis?" In a 1980 interview, <mask> claimed that "my back is marvelous now....it's absolutely perfect now." <mask> was diagnosed with a rare and incurable form of leukaemia on 13 January 1994 which caused his death on 3 July 1994.Press reports of a heart attack were incorrect. <mask>'s personal physician specialist was his own son-in-law Dr. Manuel Benavides, who explained the cause of death. A book co-written with Jack Pollard and titled My Game ("The Lew Hoad story" in the USA) was published in 1958. In 2002, Pollard teamed up with his widow, Jenny, to write My Life With Lew. <mask> was inducted into the

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