International tennis championships of Germany 1937
◄ International Tennis Championships of Germany ►![]() |
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date | July 31 - August 8, 1937 |
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Hamburg German Empire![]() |
First run | 1892 |
Tournament type | Free place tournament |
Defending champion | |
Men's singles |
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Ladies singles |
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Men's doubles |
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Ladies doubles |
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Mixed |
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Title holder | |
Men's singles |
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Ladies singles |
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Men's doubles |
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Ladies doubles |
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Mixed |
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The 39th International Tennis Championships in Germany took place from July 31 to August 8, 1937 on the Rothenbaum in Hamburg .
Because of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the tournament was not held last year.
Defending champion Gottfried von Cramm was eliminated in the round of 16 against John Bromwich . In return, Henner Henkel won the tournament in the final against Vivian McGrath . Von Cramm did not compete in the men's doubles, so the defending champions Hans Denker and Henner Henkel played together again, but this time they failed in the quarter-finals to the British Don Butler and Frank Wilde , who in turn lost to the two Australians Jack Crawford and Vivian McGrath in the final . The semi-finals The Austrian Georg von Metaxa reached singles .
For the fourth time in a row, Hilde Sperling won the women's singles title and also won the women's doubles with Madzy Rollin Couquerque from the Netherlands against the French-German combination Lilí de la Valdène and Totta Zehden . The final opponent in the singles was Marie Luise Horn , who won the mixed doubles against Sperling and the South African Norman Farquharson alongside Hans Denker . The other two semi-finalists in the singles were Annelies Ullstein and Totta Zehden.
Results
Men's singles
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1 | 6th | 8th | 3 | 6th | ||
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6th | 3 | 6th | 6th | 1 |
Ladies singles
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4th | 6th | 6th | ||
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6th | 2 | 2 |
Men's doubles
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5 | 6th | 2 | 6th | 6th | ||
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7th | 4th | 6th | 4th | 3 |
Ladies doubles
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6th | 6th | |||
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2 | 1 |
Mixed
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3 | 10 | 6th | ||
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6th | 8th | 2 |
source
- The tennis sport, sole official organ of the professional tennis office in the German Reichsbund for physical exercises , 14th year (1937), No. 21-23