Helga Hösl-Thaw

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Helga Hösl-Thaw Tennis player
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: February 2, 1940
Date of death: September 12, 2015
singles
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open 2R (1970)
Wimbledon AF (1962)
US Open -
Double
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open F (1964)
Wimbledon 1R (1968)
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Helga Hösl-Thaw , née Schultze , (born February 2, 1940 in Berlin ; † September 12, 2015 ) was a German tennis player .

Helga Schultze's father was a German youth champion and club master with the Zehlendorfer Wasps. Her career began in Switzerland when she won a tournament during her training at the interpreting school in Lausanne and thus became the focus of the German Tennis Association. Together with her sister Margret she played in Hanau until 1964 and then moved to Berlin to the LTTC Rot-Weiß.

Helga Schultze, who was used 16 times for Germany in the FedCup , was ten times German champion , winning five of these titles in singles (1964, 1967, 1970, 1973 and 1974). In 1970 she also became International German Champion . In the 1960s she was placed in the world rankings. At the 1964 French Open , she and her Argentinian partner Norma Baylon reached the final in women's doubles. She is also the author of the book Man is what he eats and how he lives .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tennis-Blatt, official organ of the Berlin Tennis Association, year 13, March 1964, issue 1, page 13
  2. ↑ Info from the DTB , accessed on October 20, 2015
  3. ↑ Tennis-Blatt, official organ of the Berlin Tennis Association, year 13, March 1964, issue 1, page 54
  4. ↑ Tennis-Blatt, official organ of the Berlin Tennis Association, year 13, March 1964, issue 1, page 55
  5. ↑ German Champion Ladies Singles on dtb-tennis.de
  6. ↑ Info from the DTB , accessed on October 20, 2015
  7. ^ Ceremony for the 100th birthday of Gottfried von Cramm
  8. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Hösl-Thaw, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultze, Helga (maiden name); Hösl-Schultze, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2015