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Joyce Wood
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] BiographyWood 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
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