International tennis championships of Germany 1954
◄ International Tennis Championships of Germany ►
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| date | July 30 - August 8, 1954 |
| venue |
Hamburg BR Germany
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| First run | 1892 |
| Tournament type | Free place tournament |
| Game surface | sand |
| Defending champion | |
| Men's singles |
 Budge Patty
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| Ladies singles |
Dorothy Knode
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| Men's doubles |
Gottfried von Cramm Budge Patty
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| Ladies doubles |
Dorothy Knode Joy Mottram
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| Mixed |
Pat Ward Tony Mottram
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| Title holder | |
| Men's singles |
Budge Patty
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| Ladies singles |
Joy Mottram
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| Men's doubles |
Gottfried von Cramm Budge Patty
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| Ladies doubles |
Joy Mottram Erika Vollmer
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| Mixed |
Erika Vollmer Hugh Stewart
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The 48th International Tennis Championships of Germany took place from July 30th to August 8th 1954 on the Rothenbaum in Hamburg .
They started on a Friday and this time extended over two weekends again. Organizationally, this also included the individual finals of the National German Tennis Championships, which had previously been canceled in Braunschweig due to continuous rain and took place on July 31st. Their winners were Engelbert Koch , who had already been eliminated from the international championships, and Erika Vollmer , who won against Inge Pohmann .
Inge Pohmann, who competed for the last time in Hamburg, also lost the final of the international championships against last year's finalist Joy Mottram from Great Britain, who was able to celebrate another victory in the women's doubles as defending champion, this time together with Erika Vollmer, in the absence of the three-time winner Dorothy Knode . Erika Vollmer also won the mixed doubles alongside the American Hugh Stewart .
The crowd pullers among the women were the 17- and 15-year-old sisters Edda and Ilse Buding , who were competing in Hamburg for the first time and who were living in Argentina at the time. 18-year-old Margot Dittmeyer also competed in Hamburg for the first time.
In the men's category , Budge Patty was able to defend his two titles in singles and doubles, with Gottfried von Cramm at his side again in doubles , who became the record winner in Hamburg with his 13th title win. The two Swedes Lennart Bergelin and Sven Davidson , who had contested the final in 1951 , and this time only failed because of Patty and von Cramm / Patty, respectively, got far . The 55-year-old Jean Borotra reached the semi-finals in both double competitions. The best German in the individual was Ernst Buchholz , who lost the final at the national championships, but reached the quarter-finals here as expected.
The play of a consolation round, there in the in the men around was reintroduced same Cup and the ladies around the Alsterpokal went.
Results
Men's singles
| final | |||||||
| Budge Patty
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6th | 6th | 7th | ||||
 Sven Davidson
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1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Ladies singles
| final | |||||
| Joy Mottram
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2 | 7th | 6th | ||
| Inge Pohmann
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6th | 5 | 2 | ||
Men's doubles
| final | |||||||
| Gottfried von Cramm Budge Patty
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9 | 6th | 6th | ||||
| Lennart Bergelin Sven Davidson
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7th | 4th | 2 | ||||
Ladies doubles
| final | |||||
| Joy Mottram Erika Vollmer
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6th | 6th | |||
| Joan Curry Pat Ward
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2 | 2 | |||
Mixed
| final | |||||
| Erika Vollmer Hugh Stewart
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6th | 6th | |||
Barbara Lewis Armando Viera
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4th | 4th | |||
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- Hamburger Abendblatt , issues from July 29 to August 9, 1954, available in the online archive at http://www.abendblatt.de (subject to a charge)
- Tennis, official organ of the German Tennis Federation , Volume 8, Issue 15 (August 1st 1954 edition)