Hans-Jürgen Pohmann

Hans-Jürgen Pohmann
Hans-Jürgen Pohmann 1974 at the ABN Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	May 23, 1947
Size:	178 cm
Resignation:	1979
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	108: 107
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	30 (23 August 1973)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	149: 93
Career title:	5
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Hans-Jürgen Pohmann (born May 23, 1947 in Cologne ) is a former German tennis player and journalist.

Pohmann was born the son of tennis player Inge Pohmann . He celebrated his greatest success as a tennis player in the 1970s. In 1973 he won the individual Grand Prix tournaments in Berlin and Düsseldorf . This season he also achieved his highest position in the tennis world rankings with rank 30 .

As a doubles player, he and his long-time playing partner Jürgen Faßbender won five tournaments: 1972 in Kitzbühel , 1973 and 1974 in Hamburg and 1975 and 1976 in Gstaad . In 1973 both reached the semifinals of the French Open and two years later the semifinals at Wimbledon .

Between 1971 and 1976 Pohmann also played a total of 24 matches as a member of the German Davis Cup team. Of them he won 18. He celebrated his greatest success in 1971 when he made it to the finals of the Europe zone.

After retiring from competitive sports, Pohmann embarked on a career as a sports journalist and from 1981 worked as an editor, moderator and commentator for the sports editorial team of Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). From 2005 until his retirement at the end of December 2012, he worked at RBB as head of sports.

Web links

• ATP profile of Hans-Jürgen Pohmann (English)
• ITF profile of Hans-Jürgen Pohmann (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Hans-Jürgen Pohmann (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Press release on Hans-Jürgen Pohmann . Website of the Berlin-Brandenburg broadcasting company. Retrieved May 20, 2013.