Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 
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| Birthday: | December 11, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 187 cm | ||||||||||||
| 1st professional season: | 1980 | ||||||||||||
| Resignation: | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | Right | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | $ 2,035,385 | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 408: 244 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 6 WTA , 0 ITF | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 4 (September 2 1985) | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 398: 154 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 25 WTA, 1 ITF | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 3 (August 17 1987) | ||||||||||||
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |||||||||||||
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (* 11. December 1963 as Claudia Kohde in Saarbrücken ) is a German politician and former tennis player . She has been a member of the Saarbrücken city council since 2014, until 2019 she was a member of the Die Linke party , since then she has been a member of the SPD parliamentary group.
Sports career
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch reached fourth place in the world rankings in September 1985 and was thus one of the most successful German tennis players. In the double world rankings, she and Helena Suková even took second place behind Martina Navrátilová / Pam Shriver , making her one of the absolute best in the world. She won the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul together with Steffi Graf . She also fought for Germany's first victory at the Fed Cup in 1987 , again alongside Steffi Graf in doubles.
She won nineteen double titles with Helena Suková between 1983 and 1987, including one each at Wimbledon and one at the US Open . She secured individual titles at the Grand Prix tournaments in Birmingham in 1988 and in Kitzbühel in 1990 . After several injuries, she gradually withdrew from the tour in the mid-1990s and concentrated on the Bundesliga , in which she was German team champion several times with her club Blau-Weiß Saarlouis .
Private life
After her tennis career, Kohde-Kilsch completed a journalism course at the German School of Journalism in Berlin. She was involved as an ambassador for the football World Cup 2006 for people with disabilities in Germany and also contributed the text for the official World Cup anthem There Is a Dream, sung by Amy Elaine .
Kohde-Kilsch had 2,011 regular insolvency login. The proceedings were overturned in March 2012. She accused her stepfather and then manager Jürgen Kilsch of having embezzled large parts of her fortune. The trial, which she led against Kilsch through several instances from 1999, was discontinued in 2004 when Kilsch died.
politics
In the 2012 federal presidential election , Die Linke sent Kohde-Kilsch as a representative in the Federal Assembly . Before the election to the Saarland state parliament on March 25, 2012, she campaigned for Oskar Lafontaine and Die Linke (the party achieved 16.1 percent). With effect from May 1, 2012, the parliamentary group then appointed her press spokeswoman.
In the 2013 Bundestag election , she ran as a direct candidate for Die Linke in the Saarbrücken constituency and received 10.9% of the first votes . In May 2014 she was elected to the Saarbrücken City Council for the period that will last until 2019 . In 2019 she was re-elected for the party Die Linke , but declared her departure from the faction of her party in early August 2019. A few weeks later she joined the SPD faction.
Tournament victories
singles
| No. | date | competition | category | Topping | Final opponent | Result |
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| 1. | July 19, 1981 |
 Kitzbühel
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WTA | sand |
 Sylvia Hanika
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7: 5, 7: 6 |
| 2. | March 21, 1982 |
 Austin
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WTA | Carpet (hall) |
 Helena Suková
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7: 6, 0: 6, 6: 3 |
| 3. | May 20, 1984 |
Berlin
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WTA | sand |
Kathleen Horvath
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7: 6, 6: 1 |
| 4th | 4th August 1985 |
los Angeles
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WTA | Hard court |
Pam Shriver
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6: 2, 6: 4 |
| 5. | June 12, 1988 |
 Birmingham
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WTA Tier V | race |
Pam Shriver
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6: 2, 6: 1 |
| 6th | September 16, 1990 |
Kitzbühel
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WTA Tier V | sand |
 Rachel McQuillan
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7: 6, 6: 4 |
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Trivia
In 2020 Kohde-Kilsch participated in the Sat.1 telecast Celebrity Big Brother in part and was eliminated after four days (and the first) out.
Web links
- Website by Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
- WTA profile of Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (English)
- ITF profile of Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (English)
- Fed Cup statistics from Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (English)
- Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the person
- ↑ Amélie-Marie Besirsky and Bastian Obermayer (interview): Spiel, Satz, Krieg (Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in an interview). In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin . December 2011, accessed January 7, 2012 .
- ↑ Jörg Leopold: This is a dream job for me. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 2, 2012, accessed June 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Lafontaine: Claudia Kohde-Kilsch becomes its spokeswoman. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . April 30, 2012, accessed June 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Welt.de: Saarland - All constituencies, state lists & candidates , accessed February 18, 2016
- ↑ The Federal Returning Officer : Constituency results for the federal state of Saarland, constituency 296 - Saarbrücken ( memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 6, 2013
- ↑ Kohde-Kilsch changes to the SPD , SR.de from August 27, 2019
- ↑ Charlotte Flunkert (2020) "Celebrity Big Brother" 2020: "Shocked": Tennis ace has an explanation for the end after four days . Express, Aug 11, 2020
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kohde-Kilsch, Claudia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohde, Claudia (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken , Germany |