Edda Buding

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Edda Buding (right) with Françoise Dürr on July 25, 1965 in Hilversum

Edda Buding (born November 13, 1936 in Lovrin , Kingdom of Romania , † July 15, 2014 in Aalen ) was a German tennis player .

life and career

Edda Buding belonged to the Banat Swabian ethnic group . She came to Germany during the Second World War . In 1948 the family went to Argentina, where they were naturalized in 1954 in order to be able to compete internationally for Argentina. Here she began a successful tennis career.

Her greatest successes included winning the German Open in women's singles in 1959 and winning the German championships in 1956, 1962 and 1963, and she was three times German indoor champion, in 1961 and 1962 German tennis champion . Furthermore, she reached the final of the French Open in mixed doubles with her partner Luis Ayala in 1957 , but lost to Věra Pužejová and Jiří Javorský 3: 6, 4: 6. Also in 1961 she was in two big finals. However, she lost both at Wimbledon with her partner Bob Howe in the mixed competition, and at the US Open in doubles together with her partner Yola Ramírez .

The women's team of the German Tennis Association (DTB) also had to settle for second place in the 1966 Federation Cup finals . Team boss Edda Buding and her teammates Helga Hösl and Helga Niessen lost 3-0 to US women Julie Heldman , Billie Jean King and Carole Caldwell Graebner .

In 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico , when tennis was a demonstration competition, she won the gold medal in women's doubles with Helga Niessen .

For her success she was honored on February 29, 1964 with the “ Silver Laurel Leaf ” and the DTB with the gold pin of honor. To date, the "Silver Laurel Leaf" has only been awarded seven times to women and five times to men (two of them to a Davis Cup team).

She was the only German player who was named in the new tennis world rankings of the US magazine World Tennis Magazine in 1961 . It was listed ninth here.

Edda Buding was a sister of Ingo Buding , who was also a successful tennis player and was also one of the bearers of the DTB's Silver Laurel Leaf. A sister was also the tennis player Ilse Buding , who is active in international tournaments .

She died in July 2014 at the age of 77 in a nursing home in Aalen.

literature

Web links

Commons : Edda Buding  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The President sent us , spiegel.de of August 11, 1954.
  2. ↑ Sports at the Olympic Games in London (Part 3) , (dosb.de of July 22, 2012, accessed on July 3, 2019)
  3. ↑ DTB mourns Edda Buding ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (dtb-tennis.de from July 23, 2014)
  4. ↑ Former world-class player Edda Buding dies (sueddeutsche.de from July 22, 2014, accessed on July 31, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Buding, Edda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Lovrin , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2014
Place of death Aalen , Germany