Emily Hood Westacott

Full name	Emily Jane Lucy Harding Hood [1]
Country (sports)	Australia
Born	(1910-05-06)6 May 1910 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died	9 October 1980(1980-10-09) (aged 70)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	W (1939)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (1930, 1933, 1934)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	F (1931, 1934)

Emily Hood Westacott (née Hood; 6 May 1910– 9 October 1980), was an Australian female tennis player in the 1930s.

Emily Hood Westacott at the Milton Courts in Brisbane, Australia (1940)

In 1930 she won the national junior singles and doubles titles as well as the doubles title with Margaret Molesworth. Due to illness she played little tennis in 1935 and the first half of 1936.^[2][3][4]

She won the Australian Championship singles in 1939, defeating Nell Hopman in straight sets.^[5] In 1937 she was a finalist losing in the final to Nancye Wynne Bolton in three sets.^[6] Together with Margaret Molesworth, she won three women's doubles titles at the Australian Championships in 1930, 1933, and 1934.^[7]

In 1939 the Queensland Lawn Tennis Association proposed to send Westacott and May Hardcastle to the Wimbledon Championships, but Westacott declined due to illness of her mother.^[8][9]

She married Victor Clyde Westacott on 20 August 1930 at the Methodist Church in Brisbane.^[10]

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 2 (1 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1937	Australian Championships	Grass	Nancye Wynne	3–6, 7–5, 4–6
Win	1939	Australian Championships	Grass	Nell Hopman	6–1, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1930	Australian Championships	Grass	Margaret Molesworth	Marjorie Cox Crawford Sylvia Lance Harper	6–3, 0–6, 7–5
Win	1933	Australian Championships	Grass	Margaret Molesworth	Joan Hartigan Marjorie Gladman	6–3, 6–2
Win	1934	Australian Championships	Grass	Margaret Molesworth	Joan Hartigan Ula Valkenburg	6–8, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	1937	Australian Championships	Grass	Nell Hopman	Thelma Coyne Nancye Wynne	2–6, 2–6
Loss	1939	Australian Championships	Grass	May Hardcastle	Thelma Coyne Nancye Wynne	5–7, 4–6

Mixed doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1931	Australian Championships	Grass	Aubrey Willard	Marjorie Cox Crawford Jack Crawford	5–7, 4–6
Loss	1934	Australian Championships	Grass	Roy Dunlop	Joan Hartigan Edgar Moon	3–6, 4–6

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