Henri Lodewijk George "Ody" Koopman (19 July 1902 – 20 May 1949)
[Ody Koopman]
Tennis Archives.com, retrieved 23 October 2012. was a Dutch
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Career
Koopman was four times Dutch champion. In 1930 he won the title in the mixed doubles with
Mence Canters. In 1931, 1932 (both with
Joop Knottenbelt and in 1933 (with
Hendrik Timmer
Hendrik ("Henk") Timmer (; 8 February 1904 – 13 November 1998) was a Dutch sportsman, who primarily played tennis. Born in Utrecht, Timmer also won golf tournaments, became Dutch squash champion, played badminton and hockey. He died aged 94 ...
) he won the gentlemen's double. He competed in 1931 and 1934 at the
Wimbledon tournament. In 1931 he reached the third round at
Wimbledon, losing to
Cam Malfroy of
New Zealand
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5–7, 3–6, 4–6.
[
Koopman was a member of the Dutch Davis Cup team in the days of the Dutch champion ]Henk Timmer
Hendrik Timmer (born 3 December 1971) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Timmer was born in Hierden, Harderwijk, Gelderland. He spent his first 11 senior seasons in the second division, with FC Zw ...
.
Private life and death
Koopman was born in Salatiga
Salatiga ( jv, ꦯꦭꦠꦶꦒ) is a city in Central Java province, Indonesia. It covers an area of and had a population of 192,322 at the 2020 Census. Located between the cities of Semarang and Surakarta, and administratively an independent c ...
, Dutch East Indies. His younger sister was Toto Koopman
Catharina "Toto" Koopman (28 October 1908 – 27 August 1991) was a Dutch-Javanese model who worked in Paris prior to World War II. During that war she served as a spy for the Italian Resistance, was captured and held prisoner in the Ravensbr ...
.[Victor Laurentius]
Koopman, Catharina
in: ''Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland'', 27 November 2017 (In Dutch) He was married twice and had two sons in his second marriage.
Although not divorced from his second wife, in 1949 Koopman lived with a girlfriend and their baby in Ascona, Switzerland. In May of that year his girlfriend was found murdered and Koopman was missing. He was tracked down and arrested a week later, and died a couple of days later of 'total exhaustion' in a mental institute in Mendrisio
Mendrisio (; lmo, label= Ticinese, Mendris ) is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Mendrisio is the seat of the Accademia di Architettura of the university of Italian-speaking Switzerland (U ...
.[''Nederlander in Zwitserland overleden'', De Tijd, 24 May 1949.]
References
1902 births
1949 deaths
Dutch male tennis players
People from Salatiga
20th-century Dutch people
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