Heinrich Kleinschroth ( German: Heinrich Kleinschroth ; March 15, 1890 , Kitzingen - January 10, 1979 , Munich ) is a German tennis player and tennis coach. World champion on hard (clay) courts (1913) in men's doubles, player, and later non-playing captain of the German national team in the Davis Cup .
| Heinrich Kleinschrot | |
|---|---|
| Player gender | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship | |
| Carier start | 1906 |
| Retirement | 1937 |
| Working hand | right |
| Singles | |
| Highest position | 9 (1914) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| France | 4th circle (1930) |
| Wimbledon | 3rd circle (1927, 1932) |
| USA | 1st round |
| Double discharge | |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Australia | 1st circle [1] |
| Wimbledon | call round (1913) [2] |
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Biography
Heinrich Kleinschrot, who received a medical education in his youth, did not become a medical practitioner. Instead, he followed his elder brother Robert, became interested in lawn tennis , becoming first one of the leading players in Germany, and later as a coach and organizer of tennis life [3] . The first tennis performances of Kleinschroth Jr. date back to 1906, when he reached the final of the international championship of Bavaria, repeating this result two years later. In 1910 and 1911, Kleinschrot became the winner of the Austrian international championship , winning the Swiss international championship in the first of these seasons [4] .
In 1911, Kleinschrott made his debut at the Wimbledon tournament , and the next year at the World Championship on hard courts and the US Championship [4] . In 1913, he became a man doubles finalist in all three world championships recognized by the International Lawn Tennis Federation . At first, he and Moritz von Bissing won the world championship on hard courts in France; then, at the Wimbledon tournament, which had the status of a world championship on grass courts , Kleinschrot and Friedrich-Wilhelm Rae won the applicants tournament and met the current champions - the British pair Charles Dickson - Herbert Barrett in the round of competition, but lost in four sets. Finally, in the fall in Stockholm, the German pair Kleinschrot- Bergman lost to the French in the final of the indoor world championship . In the same year, Kleinschrot made his debut with the German national team in the International Challenge Cup (later known as the Davis Cup ), in doubles with Rae, defeating the French Decouge and Maurice Germot .
In 1913, the newspaper Daily Telegraph for the first time published a rating of the ten strongest tennis players in the world for the season; These lists, published annually by Arthur Wallis Myers and then his predecessors, over time have become the most authoritative rating in amateur tennis. Kleinschrot could not find a place in the first world ten of 1913, but the next year he was included in the list under the ninth number [5] . This season, interrupted prematurely by the World War , he reached the finals of the All-Russian Lawn Tennis Championship and the Lyon Championship on indoor courts [4] .
At the end of the war, German athletes, including tennis players, were not allowed to participate in international competitions for some time, but in the domestic arena, Heinrich Kleinschrot became vice-champion of Germany in 1921 in singles. [6] The restoration of Germanyβs membership in the International Lawn Tennis Federation took place in 1927 [7] , and Kleinschrot played for four years in the national team in the Davis Cup, participating in the inter-zone final in 1929. In 1930, at the age of forty, he reached the fourth round of the French championship , defeating Jacques Brunion along the way.
Kleinschrot continued to perform in tournaments until 1937. At the same time, he served as the non-playing captain of the German national team in the Davis Cup and was a mentor for the young generation of German tennis players [3] . In particular, he was a close friend of Gottfried von Kramm , who, together with him, won his first international title in Athens in 1931 [8] .
Tennis World Championship Finals
Men's Doubles
| Result | Year | Tournament | Coating | Partner | Rivals in the final | Score in the final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory | 1913 | World Championship on Hard Courts | Priming | Moritz von Bissing | Anthony Wilding Otto Freitzheim | 7-5, 0-6, 6-3, 8-6 |
| Defeat | 1913 | Wimbledon Tournament | Grass | Friedrich Wilhelm Rae | Herbert Barrett Charles Dixon | 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 2-6 |
| Defeat | 1913 | World Championship Indoor Courts | Hard (i) | Kurt Bergman | Max Decouge Maurice Germot | 5-7, 6-2, 7-9, 3-6, 1-6 |
Notes
- β Results of performances at the Australian Championship
- β Doubles history at the Wimbledon Tournament official website
- β 1 2 Fisher, Marshall Jon. A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played . - New York, NY: Random House of Canada, 2010 .-- P. 19 .-- ISBN 978-0-307-39395-1 .
- β 1 2 3 Heinrich Kleinschroth (English) . Tennis Archives . Date accessed August 26, 2018.
- β World Rankings // Bud Collins' Tennis Encyclopedia / Bud Collins, Zander Hollander (Eds.). - Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1997 .-- P. 648. - ISBN 1-57859-000-0 .
- β Werner Benzinger. Kleinschroth, Heinrich (German) . Tennis-Aaron (10. Juli 2015). Date accessed August 18, 2018.
- β Fisher, 2010 , p. 7.
- β Fisher, 2010 , p. 50.
Links
- Profile on the ITF website
- Heinrich Kleinschroth (English) . Tennis Archives . Date accessed August 26, 2018.
- Profile on the Davis Cup website (eng.)