German Tennis Association

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German Tennis Association
Founded	May 19, 1902
Place of foundation	Berlin
president	Ulrich Klaus
societies	8,946
Members	1,370,801
Association headquarters	Hamburg
Homepage	www.dtb-tennis.de

The German Tennis Association e. V. ( DTB ) is the umbrella organization for all German associations and clubs in tennis . In Hamburg -based organization with nearly 1.4 million members, most members tennis association in the world and the third largest sports association in Germany.

The association organizes the ATP World Tour 500 tournament at Hamburg's Rothenbaum ( Am Rothenbaum ) and the Davis Cup and Fed Cup home games.

The association was founded on May 19, 1902 as the German Lawn Tennis Association (DLTB) in Berlin , when 22 clubs with around 2500 members organized themselves under one umbrella organization.

The DTB is divided into 17 regional associations. The members are organized in almost 9,000 tennis clubs throughout Germany, with a total of around 47,000 tennis courts available.

tasks and goals

According to the statutes of the DTB

• promote tennis, protect its interests and do public relations work,
• represent German tennis in national and international sports organizations,
• regulate the selection of teams in the various age groups and organize the preparation and implementation of the competitions (tournaments),
• regulate the training of trainers, trainers and referees on a nationwide basis.
• promote competitive and popular sport.

structure

The structure of the German Tennis Federation consists of 17 regional associations.

Association	Abbreviation	Members	societies	Places	state
Baden Tennis Association	BTV	112,987	718	3,601	Baden-Württemberg
Württemberg Tennis Association	WTB	171,419	1,038	5,411
Bavarian Tennis Association	BTV	301,702	2,072	9,322	Bavaria
Tennis Association Berlin-Brandenburg	TVBB	40.092	197	1,204	Berlin  /  Brandenburg
Tennis Association Northwest (F)	TVNW	11,424	62	411	Bremen
Hamburg Tennis Association	HTV	34,937	90	896	Hamburg
Hessian Tennis Association	HTV	128,152	769	3,791	Hesse
Tennis Association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	TMV	4,092	38	173	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Middle Rhine Tennis Association	TVM	76,940	365	2.176	North Rhine-Westphalia
Tennis Association Niederrhein	TVN	95,341	442	2,942
Westphalian Tennis Association	WTV	130,642	817	4,606
Lower Saxony Tennis Association (F)	TNB	133,225	1,133	5,565	Lower Saxony
Rhineland-Palatinate Tennis Association	TRP	81,848	711	3,037	Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland Tennis Association	STB	22,649	170	840	Saarland
Saxon Tennis Association	STV	11,956	145	636	Saxony
Tennis Association of Saxony-Anhalt	TSA	5,501	80	359	Saxony-Anhalt
Tennis Association Schleswig-Holstein	TSH	44,984	338	1,709	Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringian Tennis Association	TTV	5,545	70	280	Thuringia

As of September 8, 2015

^(F) At the general assembly of the Northwest Tennis Association (TVNW) on March 22, 2012 in Bremen, a cooperation agreement was signed with the Lower Saxony Tennis Association (NTV), which in the coming years will lead to a merger of the two North German state associations into one state association called the Lower Saxony Tennis Association -Bremen should lead. This merger will take effect on January 1, 2018.

history

→ Main article : German tennis history

The first German tennis clubs emerged around 1880. The demand for an all-German tennis association grew with the number of new tennis clubs and the first tournaments in Germany. On the occasion of the Berlin Whitsun tournament, a meeting between Carl August von der Meden from Hamburg and leading personalities took place in the Berlin Palace Hotel on May 19, 1902 , to sign the founding document of the German Lawn Tennis Association. As expected, the Meden, tournament organizer from Hamburg and later namesake of the well-known media games , was elected the first president of the tennis association.

From the foundation to 1933

In the first years of the 20th century, Otto Froitzheim in particular caused a stir. The development of German tennis had been promising up to the First World War . In the early summer of 1919, the Lawn Tennis and Tournament Club Berlin set about bringing the organized tennis game back to life. In 1920 the association held its first general meeting since 1914. In the same year, the federation deleted the term Lawn from the name. It wasn't until the mid-1920s, after the inflation had subsided, that sport fully recovered. In 1924 39 clubs joined the German Tennis Association and increased the total to 317 with 42,000 players. However, the DTB was not re-admitted to the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) until 1926 .

The 1930s heralded the first “boom”. In 1931, 1130 clubs and around 90,000 players finally belonged to the association. Gottfried von Cramm , Henner Henkel , Hans Nüsslein , Hilde Sperling-Krahwinkel and Cilly Aussem caused a sensation on an international level. "Baron" Gottfried von Cramm won the French International Championships twice. At Wimbledon , he just missed the big triumph in his three finals appearances. After Boris Becker , he is the best German player of all time. What Gottfried von Cramm was denied, Cilly Aussem succeeded. Born in Cologne, she became the first German Wimbledon winner. After Cilly Aussem and Henner Henkel, who made it to third position in the world rankings, the German Tennis Association named its junior team competitions (Henner Henkel games, Cilly outer games).

time of the nationalsocialism

During the time of National Socialism , the German Tennis Association was also affected by the synchronization of all clubs. In April 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler's “ seizure of power ” in Germany , the board of directors of the DTB ordered the exclusion of all “non-Aryan” members and their blocking for international tournaments. Jewish-German top players like Daniel Prenn or Ilse Friedleben fled into exile, Nelly Neppach was driven to suicide.

Gottfried von Cramm was in the final of the French Open in 1934. There he fended off a match point against his rival, world number one and defending champion Jack Crawford from Australia, with a score of 4: 5 in the fourth set and turned the game around. He won the French Open for the first time with 6: 4, 7: 9, 3: 6, 7: 5 and 6: 3.

In 1936 Gottfried von Cramm won again in Paris (6: 0, 2: 6, 6: 2, 2: 6 and 6: 0 against Fred Perry ), but could not convince weeks later in the Wimbledon final against the same Briton. He lost 1: 6, 1: 6 and 0: 6 after just 40 minutes due to a muscle strain in his thigh. The German only admitted his injury hours later and thus became a dignified loser for the English. Von Cramm also lost the final in 1937 3: 6, 4: 6 and 2: 6 in 65 minutes against the American Donald Budge . In the same year he went on a 200-day trip around the world by ship on behalf of the German Tennis Association with other top players and played tournaments in the USA, Japan, Indonesia and Australia.

Post War and Reconstruction

Membership development in the DTB 1948–2011

In 1948 the association was re-established under the name Deutscher Tennis Bund (DTB). Gottfried von Cramm was one of the co-founders, and in 1950 his commitment was instrumental in ensuring that the DTB was once again accepted into the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ). Despite the difficult situation, tennis developed positively with increasing numbers of members in the clubs. In 1952 the German Tennis Association received a new constitution. The innovation was that the DTB no longer saw itself as an association of clubs, but as an association of state associations. The reason was the rapidly increasing number of members: The 15 regional associations at the time had more than 800 clubs with around 80,000 members.

On August 7, 1955, Gottfried von Cramm became German tennis champion for the last time in doubles with his American partner Budge Patty at Hamburg's Rothenbaum . Between 1932 and 1953 he played a total of 102 Davis Cup matches in singles and doubles (82 wins) and won a total of 27 German titles. Wilhelm Bungert stepped into the limelight in the 1960s , his female counterpart was Helga Masthoff . She represented the German Tennis Association in 56 Federation Cup matches. She left the place as the winner 38 times, also a record.

The golden years - tennis boom

At the beginning of the 1980s, the number of members in the clubs exceeded the million mark and doubled to over two million in just ten years.

Sylvia Hanika was the first German to win the Masters in 1982 . Her best world ranking position was fifth.

Three years later, on July 7, 1985, tennis fever finally broke out in Germany. The 17-year-old Boris Becker won the title at Wimbledon. In the final, the surprise finalist beat South African Kevin Curren in four sets. In Germany, 11.19 million people (31 percent audience rating) watched the triumphal procession of the youngest Wimbledon winner to date. Two more titles and three finals should follow. In 1991 Becker was at the top of the world rankings and again reached the final at Wimbledon. There he was defeated by Michael Stich , who won his first and only Grand Slam title. In 1992 they both won the Olympic gold medal in Barcelona . In 1989 Germany defeated the Swedish team again, this time 3-2. In 1993 Michael Stich led the Davis Cup team and brought the Cup to Germany for the third and so far last time.

The German women also dominated the international competition. Steffi Graf surpassed all previous records. Between 1986 and 1999 she won 107 individual titles. For eight years, she finished the season number one in the world rankings, which she led for 377 weeks. In 1988 she crowned her career with the " Golden Slam ", victories at all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympic Games in Seoul . She became the most successful tennis player of all time. In 1987 Steffi Graf and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch led the German Federation Cup team as single players to a victory against defending champions USA in Vancouver. In 1992 the German team with Steffi Graf, Anke Huber , Sabine Hack and Barbara Rittner won the Federation Cup for the second time. Under the leadership of Klaus Hofsäss, they won the final against Spain in Frankfurt am Main. In 1999 she announced her final retirement from active tennis and was officially adopted during the Masters in New York's Madison Square Garden.

The following graphic shows the development of membership numbers in the regional associations from 1982 to 2011.

The 21st century

Members 1950–2010 (5-year increments)

The new top players in Germany were now Nicolas Kiefer and Tommy Haas - both were among the top ten in the world rankings. Tommy Haas even ranked second in the world rankings in 2002. So far, the man from Hamburg has won 14 ATP tournaments and brought in over 12 million US dollars in prize money. Nicolas Kiefer reached position four in the world rankings in 2000 and won six individual titles and 7.4 million US dollars in prize money by the end of his career. In 2008, the Hanoverian Kiefer represented Germany at the Olympic Games in Beijing together with Philipp Kohlschreiber .

Rainer Schüttler impressed in 2003 at the Australian Open. The Korbacher reached the final and was among the top ten. However, Schüttler was unable to maintain the high level of play for a long time and at times slipped down to 150th place in the world rankings. In 2008 at Wimbledon, Schüttler came back out of nowhere and fought his way to the semi-finals as an unset player.

In Germany, six men are currently in the top 100 and six other players are in the top 200 of the world rankings (as of January 16, 2017), Angelique Kerber is currently in 1st position for women, and another seven women are in the top 100 and another four players among the top 200 in the world rankings (as of January 16, 2017).

President

year	Surname
1902-1911	Carl August von der Meden
1911-1925	Emil Bartels
1925-1934	Gerhard Weber
1934-1937	Wilhelm Schomburgk
1937-1945	Erich Schönborn
1949-1951	Richard Stephanus
1951-1952	Max steel
1952-1958	Jost Henkel
1958-1967	Franz Helmis
1967-1973	Fritz Kütemeyer
1973-1975	Eduard H. Dörrenberg
1975-1985	Walther Rosenthal
1985-1999	Claus Stauder
1999	Karl Weber
1999-2011	Georg Freiherr von Waldenfels
2011-2014	Karl-Georg Altenburg
since 2014	Ulrich Klaus

Competitions

Every year the National German Championships take place in Germany, in which German tennis players fight for titles. However, it is not just about the well-known international top players at the well-known major events, but also about young talents, young seniors and seniors who are rarely in the spotlight. In order to offer a series of tennis tournaments to German and international youngsters, the most important international tournaments were combined in 2010 to form the German Masters Series .

The German home games of the Fed Cup (Federation Cup until 1995), the most important competition for national teams in women 's tennis, and the Davis Cup , the most famous competition for national teams in men's tennis, are organized by the German Tennis Association.

See also

• History of tennis

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Tennis Bund  - Collection of images

• Official website of the German Tennis Association (dtb-tennis.de, accessed on July 26, 2020)
• DTB ranking list men from September 30, 2015 (dtb-tennis.de, accessed on December 31, 2015; PDF; 2,107 kB)
• DTB ranking list women from September 30, 2015. (dtb-tennis.de, accessed on December 31, 2015; PDF; 1,629 kB)
• Davis Cup statistics - Germany (English)
• Fed Cup statistics - Germany (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} inventory survey 2019. (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on December 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ German Tennis Association - Data & Facts (dtb-tennis.de, accessed on September 19, 2017)
3. ↑ Tennis courts since 1995 (dtb-tennis.de, accessed on January 28, 2018)
4. ↑ Articles of Association § 3 (PDF; 75 kB), accessed on December 25, 2017
5. ^ The German Tennis Federation, regional associations , accessed on January 5, 2016
6. ↑ Articles of Association § 8 (PDF; 75 kB)
7. ↑ Lower Saxony and Northwest are planning a common future (accessed on March 28, 2012)
8. ^ Report of December 20, 2017 in the Weser-Kurier
9. ^ German Tennis Federation (ed.): Tennis in Germany. From the beginning until 2002. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10846-9 . P. 89f.
10. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kaufhold: From light into darkness. From: Tennis in Germany. From the beginning to the present. 2002, pp. 136–143, here p. 136.
11. ↑ 100 years of the German Tennis Association
12. ↑ ^{a b} membership development since 1948 (dtb-tennis.de, accessed on January 5, 2016)
13. ↑ German players in the world rankings
14. ↑ German players in the world rankings
15. ↑ Tennis: DTB President Waldenfels withdraws candidacy (spiegel.de, accessed on April 16, 2013)
16. ↑ New tennis era begins: Altenburg DTB President (abendblatt.de, accessed on April 16, 2013)
17. ^ Altenburg new DTB president (sport1.de, accessed on April 16, 2013)
18. ↑ Tennis: Klaus elected the new DTB President (spiegel.de, accessed on November 17, 2014)