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Ilse Friedleben (born September 2, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main as Ilse Weihermann , † December 1963 in London ) was a German tennis player .

Life

Ilse Friedleben was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1893. Together with her two sisters Toni and Anna, she played hockey at SC Frankfurt 1880 . On the other hand, she played tennis in the TC Palmengarten . Even before the First World War , she and her sister Toni were among the best German tennis players.

In the first years of the Weimar Republic she achieved her greatest successes. Between 1920 and 1926 she won the German Championships in Hamburg six times . Only in 1925 she had to give in to her permanent rival Nelly Neppach . With the final defeat in Hamburg in 1927 in front of 2,500 spectators against the up-and-coming Cilly Aussem , the end of their era was heralded. The magazine Tennis und Golf wrote about the final: “With 6: 3, 6: 3 Miss Aussem won her first German championship, against the player in our top class, whose successes in German tennis were unprecedented. The applause that lasted several minutes was therefore not only for the new champion, but also for the old champion, who won so many victories on Medenplatz. ”In the same year, Aussem replaced her from the top of the German tennis rankings. At Wimbledon she competed in 1927 and 1929, but never got beyond the first round in singles. At the French Championships in 1927 she reached the round of 16, in which she was defeated by Cornelia Bouman 6: 3, 1: 6 and 2: 6. Most recently she was able to win the national German championships in 1932.

In the spring of 1933 Friedleben was ranked fifth on the German tennis rankings. After all "non-Aryan" players were excluded from German tennis clubs in April 1933, Friedleben, who was of Jewish faith, emigrated to Switzerland . From then on, little is known about her further life. After the Second World War she is said to have worked as a teacher in Switzerland. She died in London in December 1963.

literature

• Christian Eichler : Displaced Master. In: Deutscher Tennis Bund (Ed.): Tennis in Germany. From the beginning to the present. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10846-9 .