Hella Riede

Hella Riede (born October 24, 1938 in Erfurt ) is a former German tennis player .

Career

Born in Erfurt on October 24, 1938 as Hella Vahley, she collected balls as a child for her future mixed partner, Werner Rautenberg . After making a good impression at the boys' ball tournaments, she was accepted into the youth team of today's club Rot-Weiß Erfurt . In 1954 Vahley was allowed to drive as a substitute player to the youth championships, which she won surprisingly. As a result, the old master Karl-Heinz Sturm became aware of her and convinced her parents to hand over the talented daughter to the care of the Halle sports club. Only one year later, the Erfurt native trained on the Saale, where she later studied sport at the Martin Luther University . At the age of 23, Vahley won the international championship of Poland and, as number two in the GDR rankings, took part in the Games of the New Emerging Forces in 1963 with Peter Fährmann , where she won the silver medal in doubles with Russian Irina Yermolova-Ryazanova. This trip to the Indonesian capital Jakarta was the longest that GDR tennis players made on behalf of their country.

The year 1965 was a high point for Hella Vahley, both privately and athletically. Shortly after the tournament in Zinnowitz, she married Dr. Dieter Riede, former GDR champion over 100 and 200 meters, and at the end of the year she finally replaced her two-year-old Eva Johannes as number one in the GDR . After 1964, the sports teacher was also able to win the individual at the "International" von Zinnowitz in 1966 and from 1968 to 1970 - more often than any other player.

literature

• R. Streppelhoff: Tennis as a competitive sport in the GDR. In: Stadium . International magazine for the history of sport. Volume 23, 2007, 2, pp. 243-264