Helga Masthoff

Helga Niessen, 1965 (Photo by Ron Kroon )

Helga Masthoff (born Helga Niessen on November 11, 1941 in Essen ) is a former German tennis player .

She was the most successful German tennis player after the war until the early 1980s, when Sylvia Hanika had her best time. In 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico , when tennis was a demonstration competition, she won gold in women's singles and doubles (with Edda Buding ) and silver in mixed (with Jürgen Faßbender ).

Her greatest international successes thereafter were victories at the German Open from 1972 to 1974, where she defeated Martina Navrátilová in the 1974 final , and participation in the French Open in 1970 , when she only had to admit defeat in the final Margaret Court . In the Federation Cup she was with Germany in 1966 and 1970 in the final, which was lost. In total, she took part in 56 Federation Cup matches and left the place as the winner 38 times.

Helga Masthoff played for ETuF Essen . With her club she won the German women's team championship several times.

statistics

National title wins

• German champion in individual: 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975–1978
• German champion in doubles: 1968, 1970–74 (with Heide Orth ), 1975–1979 (with Katja Ebbinghaus )
• German mixed champion: 1964 (with Günther Sanders ), 1969–1972 (with Hans-Jürgen Pohmann )

International title wins

• Winner of the International Championships of Germany - women's singles: 1972–1974
• Winner of the International Championships of Germany - women's doubles: 1972–1974

Grand Slam tournaments

• 1 × finalist - French Open, Paris
• 3 × ¼ final British Open, Wimbledon
• 2 × ½ final US Open, New York (Forrest Hills)
• 1 × ½ final Australian Open, Melbourne

Federation Cup

• 33 nominations for the Fed Cup Team: 1965–1977

World ranking

• Highest world ranking position: No. 4 1970

Awards

• Golden badge of honor of the DTB
• Silver bay leaf of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Sports plaque and the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Golden badge of honor of the ETUF Essen

Web links

Commons : Helga Masthoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Helga Masthoff (English)
• ITF profile of Helga Masthoff (English)
• Fed Cup statistics from Helga Masthoff (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports at the London Olympics (Part 3) , accessed July 3, 2019.
2. ↑ ETUF Essen - Geschichte ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: according to winners lists of the German Tennis Association )
4. ↑ Tennis tournaments - German Open , accessed on September 15, 2015.
5. ↑ ITF Tennis - Pro Circuit - Player Profile - MASTHOFF, Helga (FRG) , accessed on September 15, 2015.
6. ↑ Helga Masthoff Tennis Stats - H2H Stats · MatchStat , accessed on September 15, 2015.
7. ↑ Fed Cup - Player profile - Helga MASTHOFF (FRG) , accessed on September 15, 2015.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Helga Masthoff WHO'WHO , accessed on September 15, 2015
9. ↑ ETUF golden badge of honor for record champion Helga Masthoff ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 16, 2015