Joyce Beryl Wood was an Australian tennis player.[1][2] She and Alison Burton won the girls' doubles competition at the Australian Championships (now the Australian Open) in 1938, 1939 and 1940.[3] Wood also won the girls' single competition at the Australian Championships in the same three years.[4]
Joyce Wood in 1948
Biography
Wood was from Caulfield, Victoria. In 1943, she married fellow tennis player Max McDermott in Melbourne. Following their marriage, the couple relocated to Perth, Western Australia.[2]
After the birth of her daughter, Kay Suzanne McDermott in 1945, Wood continued to compete in tournaments, including defending her women's singles title in Perth in April 1946.[5][6]
References
^"Tennis - Joyce Wood (Australia)". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
^ ab"Biographies of Female Tennis Players". Tennis Forum. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
^"Girls' Doubles". ausopen.com. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
^"Girls' Singles". ausopen.com. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
^"TENNIS FAMILY". The Daily News. Vol. LXIV, no. 22, 160. Western Australia. 17 April 1946. p. 8 (CITY FINAL). Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
^Education Department; Ministry of Education (14 February 1966). McDermott, Kay Suzanne.
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