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1936 French Championships – Men's Singles
Gottfried von Cramm defeated Fred Perry 6–0, 2–6, 6–2, 2–6, 6–0 in the final to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1936 French Championships. Seeds The seeded players are listed below. Gottfried von Cramm is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated. # Fred Perry ''(finalist)'' # Gottfried von Cramm ''(champion)'' # Bunny Austin ''(quarterfinals)'' # Christian Boussus ''(semifinals)'' # Henner Henkel ''(third round)'' # Marcel Bernard ''(semifinals)'' # Bernard Destremau ''(quarterfinals)'' # Kho Sin-Kie ''(fourth round)'' # Kay Lund ''(third round)'' # Frank Herbert David Wilde ''(second round)'' # Dragutin Mitić ''(first round)'' # Charles Edgar Hare ''(fourth round)'' # Adam Baworowski ''(fourth round)'' # Georg Von Metaxa ''(third round)'' # Jacques Brugnon ''(second round)'' # André Martin-Legeay ''(fourth round)'' Draw Key * Q = Qualifier * WC = Wild card * LL = Lucky loser * r = Retired Finals Earlier roun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Von Cramm
Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm (; 7 July 1909 – 8 November 1976) was a German tennis champion who won the French Open twice and reached the final of a Grand Slam on five other occasions. He was ranked number 2 in the world in 1934 and 1936, and number 1 in the world in 1937. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977, an organisation which considers that he is "most remembered for a gallant effort in defeat against Don Budge in the 1937 Interzone Final at Wimbledon". Von Cramm had difficulties with the Nazi regime, which attempted to exploit his appearance and skill as a symbol of Aryan supremacy, but he refused to identify with Nazism. Subsequently he was persecuted as a homosexual by the German government and was jailed briefly in 1938. Von Cramm figured briefly in the gossip columns as the sixth husband of Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress. Birth and childhood Third of the seven sons of Baron Burchard von Cramm (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
