Between the wars
Australia · born Brisbane, 1910 · died 1980 · Australian junior champion 1930 · Australian champion 1939
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1939
Australian women's singles title, as Emily Westacott
6-1, 6-2
Her 1939 final against Nell Hopman
3
Australian women's doubles titles with Mall Molesworth
3
Queensland Championships singles titles, 1932 to 1938
Born in Brisbane in 1910, Hood won the Australian junior singles and doubles at Kooyong in 1930 and, at the same Championships, the women's doubles with Mall Molesworth. She married in August 1930 and played from then on as Emily Westacott. With Molesworth she won the Australian doubles again in 1933 and 1934, and she reached the mixed doubles finals of 1931 and 1934. At the Queensland Championships at Milton she won the singles in 1932, 1934 and 1938 and was runner-up five times. She lost the 1937 Australian singles final to Nancye Wynne in three sets, then won the title in 1939 as the sixth seed, beating Nell Hopman 6-1, 6-2, and reached the doubles final that year with May Hardcastle. She died in 1980.
| Major singles titles | 1: Australian (1930) |
|---|---|
| Major doubles titles | 2: Australian (1930, 1931) |
| Australian junior doubles partners | 1930 with Nell Hall; 1931, as Emily Westacott, with S. Moon |
| Australian Championships singles | Champion 1939, beating Constance Coate, Joan Hartigan and Nell Hopman 6-1, 6-2. Runner-up 1937 to Nancye Wynne 3-6, 7-5, 4-6 |
| Australian Championships doubles | Champion 1930, 1933 and 1934 with Mall Molesworth. Runner-up 1937 with Nell Hopman and 1939 with May Hardcastle. Mixed finals 1931 with Aubrey Willard and 1934 with Roy Dunlop |
| Queensland Championships | Singles champion 1932 (beat Mall Molesworth 4-6, 6-4, 6-1), 1934 (beat Joan Hartigan 9-7, 6-0) and 1938 (beat May Hardcastle 6-2, 6-4). Runner-up 1929, 1930, 1931, 1937 and 1940 |
| Australian Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Women's doubles | with Margaret Molesworth |
| 1933 | Women's doubles | with Margaret Molesworth |
| 1934 | Women's doubles | with Margaret Molesworth |
| 1939 | Women's singles | |
| Queensland Championships | ||
| 1932 | Women's singles†| |
| 1934 | Women's singles†| |
| 1938 | Women's singles†| |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"raised her national ranking to equal first with Emily Westacott, who defeated her in the Australian championships in 1939"
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Kooyong 1930
At the 1930 Australian Championships, aged 19, Hood won the junior singles and, with Nell Hall, the junior doubles. With Mall Molesworth she also won the women's doubles, beating the second seeds Marjorie Cox and Sylvia Harper 6-3, 0-6, 7-5 in the final. Hood and Molesworth were seeded third.
Source: WikipediaBrisbane and Kooyong, 1930 to 1931
Hood married at a Methodist church in Brisbane on 20 August 1930. When the junior championships came round again in 1931 she won the girls' doubles once more, with S. Moon, and the roll of honour records her that year under her married name, Emily Westacott.
Source: ITF and WikipediaMilton, Brisbane, 1929 to 1932
The Queensland singles final became a contest with her own doubles partner. Mall Molesworth beat her in the finals of 1929, 1930 and 1931, the last 6-1, 6-3. In 1932 Westacott turned it round, winning 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 for her first Queensland title. She won it again in 1934 and 1938.
Source: WikipediaKooyong 1939
Seeded sixth, Westacott beat Constance Coate, who had knocked out the top seed Nancye Wynne, then Joan Hartigan, and met Nell Hopman in the final. She won 6-1, 6-2. Two years earlier she had taken Wynne to three sets in the final and lost 6-4 in the third.
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