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French Open: Defending champion Stan Wawrinka relieved, Andy Murray teeters on the brink
Edit DNA India 24 May 2016
-->. Czech players Radek Stepanek, Lukas Rosol prove difficult for Murray and Wawrinka ... When play was finally suspended Murray had repaired some of the damage but still trailed 3-6 3-6 6-0 4-2 ... Wawrinka puffed out his cheeks after tucking away a volley on his third match point, happy to have avoided becoming the first defending men's champion to lose his opening match since Australian Lew Hoad in 1957 ... I kept running after the score....
French Open: Wawrinka survives Rosol scare in five-setter
Edit DNA India 23 May 2016
-->. The Swiss trailed by a set twice but finally got his act together to beat Lukas Rosol ... The last time a defending champion lost his opening match was Australian Lew Hoad in 1957 ... ....
Stan Wawrinka survives Lukas Rosol scare to reach French Open second round
Edit The Guardian 23 May 2016
• Reigning champion wins 4-6 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4. • Third seed Wawrinka battles back from 2-1 down to progress ... Related. Andy Murray admits feeling ‘embarrassed’ at on-court behaviour ... The last time a defending champion lost his opening match was Australian Lew Hoad in 1957 ... ....
Tennis: Wawrinka relieved, Murray teeters on the brink
Edit Otago Daily Times 23 May 2016
Previous .. Next. . Defending champion Stan Wawrinka breathed a huge sigh of relief and Andy Murray faced a sleepless night after both got bogged down by belligerent Czechs at a sodden French Open ... Wawrinka puffed out his cheeks after tucking away a volley on his third match point, happy to have avoided becoming the first defending men's champion to lose his opening match since Australian Lew Hoad in 1957 ... You can't really relax." ... ....
Delivering with colour and pride
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 17 Apr 2016
Sydney, sport and the Herald have been inextricably linked over 185 years by what could be termed an edgy pragmatism. The NSW capital is a can-do city, one that gets the job done, as the 2000 Sydney Olympics demonstrated ... Advertisement ... It was a take-no-prisoners approach. Anyone who didn't perform was gone by the opening ceremony ... So it is with sport. ... Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall were teenage Davis Cup heroes. ... ....
Davis Cup visiting a scene of the glorious, grassy past
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Feb 2016
... US team captain Jim Courier said. "I think the guys will feel the ghosts ... The Australians have yet to lose another one at Kooyong, and the 1953 challenge round remains for many the piece de resistance as teenagers Ken Rosewall and Lew Hoad, known then as the Twins, made their Cup debuts and upset Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas and the Americans, 3-2, to defend the title in front of a world-record crowd of 17,500 ... ....
Australians Out of Finals at Melbourne
Edit The American Spectator 28 Jan 2016
It has been a nice fortnight at the Australian Open, with pleasant weather most days and good behavior (at least by their standards) from the two young guns of Australian tennis, Bernard Tomic and Nick Kyrgios ... Frank Sedgman, Roy Emerson, Lew Hoad, John Newcombe deserve their fame; however, the best known during those glory years were Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall ... Open), against Jimmy Connors, 22 ... was arrested for DWI ... ....
Hartwig into Hall (Australian Open Tennis Championships)
Edit Public Technologies 26 Jan 2016
He won titles at the US Open in 1953, the Australian Open in 1954 and at Wimbledon in 1954 with Mervyn Rose, winning again at Wimbledon in 1955 with Lew Hoad ... 'I look forward to my own bust being placed in Garden Square at Melbourne Park as it will be joining my great tennis mates in Rose, Hoad, Rosewall, Fraser and Sedgman ... Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall....
Judy Murray among coaches gaining cachet during Australian Open buildup
Edit The Guardian 17 Jan 2016
There was a time when players coached themselves but they also listened to transistor radios, partied as hard as they played, used wooden rackets and took three days to fly from Australia to Europe – as Rod Laver related at Wimbledon a couple of years ago when reminiscing about his travels alongside Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Fred Stolle and a string of Australian champions, none of whom employed a coach on their campaigns ... Leon Smith ... ....
World Congress on Elite Sport Policy (Department of Health - Australian Government)
Edit Public Technologies 23 Nov 2015
(Source. Department of Health - Australian Government). 23 November 2015 ... So the first point I would make is this ... track and field athletes Betty Cuthbert, Shirley Strickland, John Landy, and Ralph Doubell; swimmers Murray Rose, Dawn Fraser, and Lorraine Crapp; tennis players Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall and Margaret Court; and golfers Norman von Nida, Peter Thompson and Kel Nagle, along with the world's best cricketers ... But winning? - no....
Rex Hartwig to be inducted into Australian Tennis Hall of Fame (Tennis Australia)
Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2015
He won titles at the US Open in 1953, the Australian Open in 1954 and at Wimbledon in 1954 with Mervyn Rose, winning again at Wimbledon in 1955 with Lew Hoad ... 'I look forward to my own bust being placed in Garden Square at Melbourne Park as it will be joining my great tennis mates in Rose, Hoad, Rosewall, Fraser and Sedgman ... Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall....
Novak Djokovic bests Roger Federer at U.S. Open, but Federer enthusiasts still win
Edit Lehigh Valley 14 Sep 2015
Tennis fans didn't despair when 32-year-old Rod Laver failed to defend any of his Grand Slam titles in 1970 ... Open ... Former champion Lew Hoad was a curiosity when he came to Wimbledon in 1970, the year Laver tried and failed to defend what would turn out to be his last title at SW19. Fans packed themselves around a small outside court to watch Hoad, as if he were a rare animal in a zoo ... Hoad, unseeded, lost in the second round ... ....
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