Emily Hood Westacott

Emily Hood Westacott, born Emily Hood on 6 May 1910 and died on 9 October 1980, was an Australian tennis player of the 1930s. She won the Australian Championships singles title in 1939, beating Nell Hopman in straight sets, and had been a finalist in 1937, when she lost to Nancye Wynne Bolton in three sets. With Margaret Molesworth she won three women's doubles titles at the championships, in 1930, 1933 and 1934, and in 1930 she also won the national junior singles and doubles titles. Illness kept her from playing much in 1935 and early 1936, and in 1939 she declined an invitation from the Queensland association to travel to Wimbledon because her mother was ill. She married Victor Clyde Westacott in Brisbane in 1930.