Carl-Uwe Steeb

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Carl-Uwe Steeb Tennis player
Nickname: Charly
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: September 1, 1967
Size: 180 cm
Weight: 75 kg
1st professional season: 1986
Resignation: 1996
Playing hand: Left
Trainer: Stefan Schasselhuber
Prize money: $ 2,320,082
singles
Career record: 212: 212
Career title: 3
Highest ranking: 14 (January 15 1990)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (1988)
French Open AF (1992)
Wimbledon 2R (1989)
US Open AF (1991)
Double
Career record: 72:79
Career title: 3
Highest ranking: 41 (May 15 1989)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (1989)
French Open 2R (1987, 1993)
Wimbledon 1R (1989)
US Open 2R (1989)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Carl-Uwe "Charly" Steeb (born September 1, 1967 in Aalen ) is a former German tennis player .

Career as a player

The left-hander Carl-Uwe Steeb, known as "Charly", began his professional career in 1986. Three years earlier he had won the German U-16 championship. In the ATP world rankings, he achieved his best placement in 1990 with 14th place. He won three individual titles in Gstaad (1989), Geneva (1991) and Moscow (1995).

Steeb made famous above all for his appearances as the second individual player in the German Davis Cup team . In 1988 in the final in Gothenburg, Sweden , he defeated the then world number one Mats Wilander after a 2-0 set deficit with 8:10, 1: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4, 8: 6 (only in the following year was the Davis Cup for introduced the first four sets of the tie-break ). Boris Becker defeated Stefan Edberg in the subsequent second singles and won in doubles alongside Eric Jelen against Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd , which was the first time in the history of the competition that Germany secured the Davis Cup . The following year, Charly Steeb reached the Davis Cup final again with the German team. The opponent in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart was again Sweden and again Germany took the title. Steeb lost his two singles against Mats Wilander and Stefan Edberg, but Boris Becker defeated Stefan Edberg, won with Eric Jelen against the Swedish doubles Anders Järryd and Jan Gunnarsson and finally achieved the decisive third point with a victory over Wilander. Carl-Uwe Steeb was also a member of the German team in the third and so far last German Davis Cup triumph, but only as a substitute for the two single players Michael Stich and Marc-Kevin Goellner as well as Patrik Kühnen , who was at Stich's side in doubles for Use came.

In 1989 he won the World Team Cup as a player and he was able to repeat this success as captain of the 1998 winning team. He was also a participant in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in singles and doubles and as a single player at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona .

Charly Steeb felt particularly at home on clay courts. He particularly benefited from his excellent physique. In terms of speed, endurance, strength and fighting spirit, Steeb has always been one of the best in his field. The fact that Steeb's game was a bit lacking in variations and was heavily dependent on his good forehand prevented greater success. His serve was average, his backhand below average for the world class level. Playing online was not one of his strengths.

After ten years as a professional, Steeb ended his playing career in 1996. From 1999 to 2001 he was the captain of the German Davis Cup team, succeeding Boris Becker.

Career as a functionary

In the summer of 2007 he took on the role of tournament director at the tennis tournament at Hamburg's Rothenbaum . After the tournament lost its Masters status in 2009, the cooperation with the DTB, which had assumed the financial risk for this, was terminated prematurely. His successor was Michael Stich .

In May 2010 Steeb launched the website tennisnet.com together with the Austrian ex-top player Alexander Antonitsch . In August of the same year he was tournament director at the 66th Austrian Open in Kitzbühel , which this year took place as part of the ATP Challenger Tour .

In 2009 he founded the marketing and management agency CHARLYSTEEB GmbH . It organizes sporting events and markets athletes such as B. Jan Ullrich . At the end of August 2013, the company had to file for bankruptcy , among other things due to mistakes in the organization of the BMW Open 2013 .

Steeb can occasionally be seen in tennis broadcasts on Sport 1 at the side of Sascha Bandermann and Elmar Paulke as an expert and co-moderator. Before that, he already worked at ZDF.

As a result of the bankruptcy of Steeb's company, the Federal Committee of the DTB unanimously decided at the beginning of November 2013 to part with Steeb as Vice President. At the beginning of December, Steeb himself announced his resignation, which should take place after the next Davis Cup match on February 2, 2014. Despite the Federal Committee's decision in November, DTB President Karl-Georg Altenburg said he regretted Steeb's departure very much.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTB ends cooperation with Steeb. In: focus.de . January 11, 2009, accessed September 18, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Jörn Krieger: New web portal for tennis fans. In: TV Digital . May 18, 2010, accessed March 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Tennis stars are loyal to the Austrian Open Kitzbühel. In: austrianopentennis.com. July 12, 2010; Archived from the original on July 27, 2010 ; Retrieved September 18, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Interesting combination: Steeb is Jan Ullrich's new manager. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . July 25, 2011, accessed February 17, 2014 .
  5. ^ Sven Clausen: Carl-Uwe Steeb's company has to file for bankruptcy. In: welt.de . August 25, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Steeb confirms bankruptcy of his company. In: spox.com . August 25, 2013, accessed February 17, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Philipp Schneider: Search for the culprit. In: sueddeutsche.de . August 27, 2013, accessed February 17, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Michael Neudecker: All against Steeb. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 13, 2013, accessed November 25, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Steeb resigns as Vice President. In: kicker.de . December 6, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Steeb, Carl-Uwe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steeb, Charly (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask