Sidney Wood

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Sidney Wood
Born	November 1 1911 (1911-11-01) (age 97) Image:Flag of Connecticut.svg Black Rock, Connecticut, United States
Occupation	Tennis player

Sidney Wood (born November 1, 1911) was an American male tennis player.

Wood was born in Black Rock, Connecticut. He is the third youngest winner of the Wimbledon Championships, which he won in 1931 at the age of 19. He also reached the finals of the Davis Cup in 1934. He is the father of David, Colin, Sidney II and W. Godfrey Wood, and he now lives in Southampton, NY and Palm Beach, Florida.

Sid Wood's son Colin Wood is the subject in Diane Arbus' famous 1962 photograph Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park.

Sid's son David Wood lives in New York and works for a law firm. His other son, W. Godfrey, lives in Maine and still holds the collegiate season hockey record for goals against average in 1962 (1.21 GAA), as a goalie for Harvard. His save percentage of .945 ranks second in all time NCAA standings (only .001 behind .946).

Another one of Sidney Wood's sons, Sidney Wood II, a natural athlete and star Yale tennis player, was killed in an early morning car accident along with teammates on a North Carolina highway.

v • d • e Pre Open Era Wimbledon men's singles champions*

* Pre Open Era | (1877) Spencer Gore | (1878) Frank Hadow | (1879–80) John Hartley | (1881–86) William Renshaw | (1887) Herbert Lawford | (1888) Ernest Renshaw | (1889) William Renshaw | (1890) Willoughby Hamilton | (1891–2) Wilfred Baddeley | (1893–4) Joshua Pim | (1895) Wilfred Baddeley | (1896) Harold Mahony | (1897–00) Reginald Doherty | (1901) Arthur Gore | (1902–6) Lawrence Doherty | (1907) Norman Brookes | (1908–9) Arthur Gore | (1910–13) Tony Wilding | (1914) Norman Brookes | (1915–18) No competition | (1919) Gerald Patterson | (1920–1) Bill Tilden | (1922) Gerald Patterson | (1923) Bill Johnston | (1924) Jean Borotra | (1925) René Lacoste | (1926) Jean Borotra | (1927) Henri Cochet | (1928) René Lacoste | (1929) Henri Cochet | (1930) Bill Tilden | (1931) Sidney Wood | (1932) Ellsworth Vines | (1933) Jack Crawford | (1934–6) Fred Perry | (1937–8) Don Budge | (1939) Bobby Riggs | (1940–5) No competition | (1946) Yvon Petra | (1947) Jack Kramer | (1948) Bob Falkenburg | (1949) Ted Schroeder | (1950) Budge Patty | (1951) Dick Savitt | (1952) Frank Sedgman | (1953) Vic Seixas | (1954) Jaroslav Drobný | (1955) Tony Trabert | (1956–7) Lew Hoad | (1958) Ashley Cooper | (1959) Alex Olmedo | (1960) Neale Fraser | (1961–2) Rod Laver | (1963) Chuck McKinley | (1964–5) Roy Emerson | (1966) Manuel Santana | (1967) John Newcombe

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