International tennis championships of Germany 1950
◄ International Tennis Championships of Germany ►
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| date | August 8-14, 1950 |
| venue |
Hamburg BR Germany
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| First run | 1892 |
| Tournament type | Free place tournament |
| Game surface | sand |
| Defending champion | |
| Men's singles |
Gottfried von Cramm
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| Ladies singles |
 María Weiss
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| Men's doubles |
Gottfried von Cramm Jack Harper
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| Ladies doubles |
Alice by Tarnay Totta Zehden
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| Mixed |
Inge Pohmann Engelbert Koch
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| Title holder | |
| Men's singles |
.svg){kind=small} Jaroslav Drobný
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| Ladies singles |
 Dorothy Head
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| Men's doubles |
Adrian Quist Bill Sidwell
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| Ladies doubles |
Dorothy Head Inge Pohmann
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| Mixed |
Thilde Dietz Bill Sidwell
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The 44th German International Tennis Championships took place from August 8 to August 14, 1950 on the Rothenbaum in Hamburg .
The third event of this kind after the Second World War was able to offer something of internationality again with participants from eleven countries. When the weather was mostly fine, the audience interest was great, so additional grandstands were set up on the weekend.
The defending champions Gottfried von Cramm and the Argentine María Weiss competed again, but could not prevail this time. The 41-year-old von Cramm lost the final against the exiled Czechoslovak Jaroslav Drobný , who lived in Egypt, and María Weiss fell ill during the tournament. In the women's category, US favorite Dorothy Head won , who only made one set against Erika Vollmer during the tournament .
Dorothy Head and Inge Pohmann also won the women's doubles against the winners of 1948 , who were in the final for the third time in a row, Thilde Dietz and Utti Heidtmann , who also made it to the final. The oldest participant, Jean Borotra , who turned 52 on the Sunday of the tournament and competed for the first time in Hamburg, reached the semi-finals in the doubles competitions with his compatriot Bernard Destremau and Dorothy Head.
The men's doubles were won by the Australians Adrian Quist and Bill Sidwell , who had previously faced each other in the final at Wimbledon in this competition, against the defending champions Gottfried von Cramm and the Australian Jack Harper . The 37-year-old Quist had already won the men's doubles in Hamburg in 1934 alongside the Spaniard Enrique Maier .
The mixed final had to be postponed to Monday, but when Thilde Dietz and Bill Sidwell were 3-0 it was already over because Jaroslav Drobný had injured his foot.
Results
Men's singles
| final | |||||||
| Jaroslav Drobný
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6th | 6th | 6th | ||||
| Gottfried von Cramm
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4th | 4th | 3 | ||||
Ladies singles
| final | |||||
| Dorothy Head
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6th | 6th | |||
| Utti Heidtmann
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3 | 0 | |||
Men's doubles
| final | |||||||
| Adrian Quist Bill Sidwell
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6th | 8th | 6th | ||||
| Gottfried von Cramm Jack Harper
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4th | 6th | 2 | ||||
Ladies doubles
| final | |||||
| Dorothy Head Inge Pohmann
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8th | 6th | |||
| Thilde Dietz Utti Heidtmann
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6th | 3 | |||
Mixed
| final | |||||
| Thilde Dietz Bill Sidwell
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3 | ||||
| Rita Anderson Jaroslav Drobný
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0 | r | |||
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- Hamburger Abendblatt , issues from August 8 to August 15, 1950, available in the online archive at http://www.abendblatt.de (subject to a charge)
- Tennis, official body of the German Tennis Federation , Volume IV, Issue 12 (August 1950 (II))