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Lew Hoad was an Australian tennis player born Lewis Alan Hoad in Glebe on November 23, 1934. A right-handed athlete, he competed for the Australia Davis Cup team and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. His professional career spanned from 1957 to 1972.
Hoad authored the work *The Lew Hoad story*. He died of leukemia in Fuengirola on July 3, 1994, due to natural causes. He spoke English and was 179 cm in height.
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Glebe
- Place of death
- Fuengirola
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Australia Davis Cup team
- Country for sport
- Australia
- Image
- Lew Hoad 1954 Davis Cup.jpg
- Height
- 179
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1934-11-23
- date of death
- 1994-07-03
- handedness
- right-handedness
- Commons category
- Lew Hoad
- birth name
- Lewis Alan Hoad
- manner of death
- natural causes
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- cause of death
- leukemia
- end of work period
- 1972-00-00
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
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