Jenny Staley Hoad

Jenny Staley Hoad

File:Jenny Staley 1954.jpg
Full name	Jennifer Staley Hoad
Country (sports)	Australia
Born	(1934-03-03) 3 March 1934 Melbourne, Australia
Plays	Left-handed
Singles
Career record	{{#property:P564}}
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	F (1954)
French Open	QF (1956)
Wimbledon	4R (1955, 1956)
US Open	2R (1956)
Doubles
Career record	{{#property:P555}}
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1955)
Wimbledon	SF (1955)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	F (1955)
French Open	F (1955)
Wimbledon	SF (1955)

Jenny Staley Hoad (born 3 March 1934) is an Australian former tennis player who was mainly active in the 1950s.

In 1953 she won the junior singles title at the Australian Championships.

As Jenny Staley she reached the singles final of 1954 Australian Championships, played in Sydney, but lost in straight sets to Thelma Coyne Long. In November 1954 she reached the final of the New South Wales Championships which she lost in three sets to Beryl Penrose. In December 1954 she was runner-up to Coyne Long at the Victorian Championships played in Kooyong. Staley won the singles title at the South Australian Championships at Adelaide in January 1955 defeating Fay Muller in the final in straight sets. At the 1955 Australian Championships she partnered her then boyfriend Lew Hoad in the mixed event and were runners-up to Thelma Coyne Long and George Worthington. Her best singles performance at the Wimbledon Championships was reaching the fourth round in 1955, losing to eight-seeded Angela Buxton, and 1956 when she was defeated by fifth-seeded and eventual champion Shirley Fry.

File:Lew Hoad Jennifer Staley.jpg

Lew Hoad and Jennifer Staley (right) at the Davis Cup Ball on 30 December 1953

Lew Hoad proposed to 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 Staley 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. They have two daughters and a son. After Hoad's retirement they moved to Fuengirola, Spain, near Málaga, where they operated a tennis resort, Lew Hoad's Campo de Tenis, for more than thirty years, entertaining personal friends such as actors Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas and saxophonist Stan Getz. Lew Hoad was diagnosed with leukemia in early 1994 and died of a heart attack on 3 July 1994 at the age of 59. Jenny Hoad sold the club in April 1999. In 2002 she published My Life With Lew with Jack Pollard.

Grand Slam tournament finals

Singles: (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Opponent in final	Score in final
Runner-up	1954	Australian Championships	Thelma Coyne Long	3–6, 4–6

Mixed doubles: (2 runners-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
Runner-up	1955	Australian Championships	Lew Hoad	Thelma Coyne Long George Worthington	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	1955	French Championships	Luis Ayala	Darlene Hard Gordon Forbes	7–5, 1–6, 2–6

References

Sources

External links

• Lew Hoad Tennis and Paddle Club

• Hoad (2002), p. 28
• Hoad (2002), pp. 29-32
• Hoad (2002), pp. 120–126
• Hoad (2002), p. 208