Dimensions
154 x 222 x 20mm
Jennie Hoad is the widow of tennis great, Lew Hoad, who died tragically from leukaemia in 1994. Lew Hoad played some of the greatest tennis on the planet. He was a misunderstood man, seldom free of back pain, but he won Wimbledon twice, three Wimbledon doubles, French, Italian and Australian singles and 17 of his 19 Davis Cup matches. He attracted a fee of $146,000 to switch from amateur to professional tennis - at the time a world record - but it drove him from Australia.
At his death, Lew's investments in a long haulage truck, service station, milk run, mining company, racehorses, a gold mine in Kal and a Gold Coast hotel had all but dried up. Jennie's book not only charts her life with a tennis legend but tells the heartbreaking story of life nursing Lew through his illness to his terrible, prolonged death and subsequent failed
investments.
