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French Riviera Championships
The Riviera Championships also known as the Championship of the Riviera and informally known as the French Riviera Championships was an open men's and women's international tennis tournament played at the Menton Lawn Tennis Club,Town and Country (1937) Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on clay courts from 1902 until 1976. History The Riviera Championships also known as the Championship of the Riviera was an open men's and women's international tennis tournament played at the Menton Lawn Tennis Club, Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on clay courts. The first edition was inaugurated on 22 March 1902, the tournament ran until 1975. In 1904 a mixed doubles event was scheduled. The tournament was part of the French Riviera circuit tennis tour, which was series of international amateur tennis events held on the French Riviera The French Riviera (known in French as the ; oc, Còsta d'Azur ; literal translation " Azure Coast") is the Mediterranean coastli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menton
Menton (; , written ''Menton'' in classical norm or ''Mentan'' in Mistralian norm; it, Mentone ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera, close to the Italian border. Menton has always been a frontier town. Since the end of the 14th century, it was on the border between County of Nice, held by the Duke of Savoy, and Republic of Genoa. It was an exclave of the Principality of Monaco until the disputed French plebiscite of 1860, when it was added to France. It had been always a fashionable tourist centre with grand mansions and gardens. Its temperate Mediterranean climate is especially favourable to the citrus industry, with which it is strongly identified. Etymology Although the name's spelling and pronunciation in French are identical to those for the word that means "chin", there does not seem to be any link with this French word. According to the French geographer Ernest Nègre, the name ''Menton'' c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Wertheim
Rupert Carl Wertheim (22 December 1893 – 12 October 1933) was an Australian tennis player. Towering at 6 feet 6 inches, Wertheim was known for his strong wrists and vigorous play. Biography Wertheim was born on 22 December 1893, in Melbourne Victoria, the second son of Hugo Wertheim and Sophie Emilie. His parents were both emigrants from Germany, who settled in Melbourne in the 1880s. He had four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. One of his sisters is the grandmother of former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. The business which his father founded, Wertheim Pianos, was highly successful and made the family a well known name in Australia. It is said that Nellie Melba would request to use Wertheim pianos for her performances. From 1901 to 1910, Wertheim attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School before following his older brother into Trinity College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne, in March 1911. Following his studies, he worked fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Caska
Josef Caska (2 September 1913 – 26 February 1981) was a Czech tennis player active in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Náchod, Caska was the 1930 national junior singles champion and twice won the Czechoslovakia international championships in doubles. In 1935, he won the singles title at the Riviera Championships and reached the fourth round at Roland Garros, beating Henner Henkel en route. He also made the fourth round of the 1936 Wimbledon Championships, where he was eliminated by Don Budge. His Davis Cup appearances took place on both sides of the war and included a win over Franjo Punčec Franjo Punčec (; 25 November 1913 – 5 January 1985) was a Yugoslav tennis player. He played for the Yugoslavian team at the International Lawn Tennis Challenge from 1933 to 1946. Early life and family Punčec started to play tennis at the .... He became a national tennis coach in the 1960s. See also * List of Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team representatives References External ... [...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] |
André Martin-Legeay
André Martin-Legeay (29 October 1906 – 1940) was a French male tennis player who was active in the 1930s. In 1933, he was a runner-up in the singles' event at the Italian Championships. Martin-Legeay reached the fourth round of the singles' event of the French Championships in 1935 and 1936, losing to Vivian McGrath and first-seeded Fred Perry respectively. At the Wimbledon Championships in 1936 he also made it to the fourth round, in which he was defeated in straight sets by seventh-seeded Bunny Austin Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin (26 August 1906 – 26 August 2000) was an English tennis player. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at Wimbledon, until Andy Murray did so in 2012. He was also a finalist .... With compatriot Sylvie Henrotin he was a runner-up in the mixed doubles' competition at the French Championships in 1935 and 1936. Martin-Legeay was ranked No. 4 in France in 1935. André Martin-Legeay died in March 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Merlin
André Merlin (15 November 1911 – 5 September 1960) was a French tennis player. Biography Born in Brazzaville on 15 November 1911, he was the son of the Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, Martial Henri Merlin. Merlin first represented the France Davis Cup team in the final of the 1933 tournament, against Great Britain at the Stade de Roland Garros. France, under The Four Musketeers, had won the previous six tournaments, but were an ageing side and brought in Merlin to counter the younger British players. Merlin lost the opening match to Bunny Austin in a one sided encounter and Henri Cochet was beaten by Fred Perry, but the French fought back to win the doubles then levelled the tie when Cochet overcame Austin in five sets. This meant it came down to Merlin in the fifth rubber, with his match against Perry to decide the title. Merlin won the first set, but Perry fought back to win in four and secure Britain's first title since 1912. In the second set, Merlin had fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderich Menzel
Roderich Ferdinand Ottomar Menzel (; 13 April 1907 – 17 October 1987) was a Czech-German amateur tennis player and, after his active career, a writer. Birth Roderich Menzel was born in Reichenberg in Bohemia (today Liberec in the Czech Republic). He lived with his parents and two brothers in a three-storey house in Römheldstraße 7 (Tatranská street these days). His father Ernst, who was born in the family of glassworks manager in the mountain village Wilhelmshöhe, rose from a correspondent to the position of a partner of cable manufacturer Felten & Guilleaume's North Bohemia office. During his studies at a business high school he started to playing a football as a goalkeeper for RSK Reichenberg – at the age of 16 (1923) he joined the senior team. Looking back on his goalkeeper career Menzel often gave a good funny story about his great idol, goalkeeper of RSK Reichenberg, Ende. As is usual, home team goalkeeper's name always appeared at the very end of both team rosters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Brugnon
Jacques Marie Stanislas Jean Brugnon (11 May 1895 – 20 March 1978), nicknamed "Toto", was a French tennis player, one of the famous " Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was born in and died in Paris. He was primarily a doubles specialist who won 10 Grand Slam doubles titles in the French, American, Australian and British championships. Additionally he won two mixed doubles titles at Roland Garros partnering Suzanne Lenglen. He was also a fine singles player but never won a Major title. He played in 20 Wimbledon Championships between 1920 and 1948 and achieved his best singles result in 1926 when he reached the semifinals, losing in a close five set match to Howard Kinsey. He also competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics. Between 1921 and 1934 he played 31 ties for the French Davis Cup team, mainly as a doubles player, and compiled a record of 26 wins versus 11 losses. He was part of the famous Four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Tilden
William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American tennis player. Tilden was the world No. 1 amateur for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and was ranked as the world No. 1 professional by Ray Bowers in 1931 and 1932 and Ellsworth Vines in 1933. He won 14 Major singles titles, including 10 Grand Slam events, one World Hard Court Championships and three professional majors. He was the first American man to win Wimbledon, taking the title in 1920. He also won a joint-record seven U.S. Championships titles (shared with Richard Sears and Bill Larned). Tilden dominated the world of international tennis in the first half of the 1920s, and during his 20-year amateur period from 1911 to 1930, won 138 of 192 tournaments he contested. He owns a number of all-time tennis achievements, including the career match-winning record and the career winning percentage at the U.S. Championships. At the 1929 U.S. National Championships, Til ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz-Wilhelm Matejka
Franz-Wilhelm Matejka (born 26 December 1896) was an Austrian tennis player. Matejka, a left-handed player from Vienna, represented Austria in the Davis Cup from 1927 to 1934. In a 1932 tie against Germany he held a match point against Gottfried von Cramm, before falling 6–8 in the fifth set. He had two Davis Cup wins over Roderich Menzel and beat Uberto De Morpurgo in 1933. A six-time national champion, he won the Austrian International Championship in 1934, defeating countryman Georg von Metaxa in the final. He reached the fourth round of the French Championships three times and made it as far as the third round at the Wimbledon Championships. See also *List of Austria Davis Cup team representatives This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Austria Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Austria have taken part in the competition since 1905. Players ''Last updated after the 2020 Davis Cup qualifying round The 2 ... References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Worm
Erik Jean-Louis Worm (April 26, 1900 – October 17, 1962) or simply Louis was a Danish tennis player. He was a three-time Danish national singles and mixed doubles champion (1922, 1923, 1924) and a two times doubles champion (1922, 1925) Apart from being a Danish champion he was the Austrian champion as well. In club level competitions he represented the Boldklubben af 1893. He was a runner-up for the Monaco tournament (now known as the Monte-Carlo Masters) in both singles and doubles. Early life Erik Worm was born on April 26, 1900 in Copenhagen to Wilhelm Worm. Tennis career ;1920-1930 Worm entered the last edition of the World Hard Court Championships in 1923 and advanced in the third round losing to count Manuel de Gomar. Between 1922 and 1925 he held the Danish Championships on numerous occasions collecting 8 titles altogether. In 1926 in his first oversees final in the Buffalo tennis and squash club invitational tournament he partnered with two-time singles champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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