International tennis tournament by Zinnowitz
The Zinnowitz International Tennis Tournament was a tennis tournament that was held in the Baltic resort of Zinnowitz on the island of Usedom between 1955 and 1990. It was the most important tennis tournament in the GDR .
history
The tournament was launched on a national level in 1953 and then played internationally from 1955. The organizer of the tournament was initially the SV Wismut and later the German Tennis Association of the GDR . The implementation was then the responsibility of the vacation service of IG Wismut and the BSG unit Zinnowitz / tennis section. The tournament always took place around July 1st, the day of the miner and the energy worker in the GDR. While from the beginning to 1989 only material prizes such as vases, travel alarm clocks or vacuum cleaners could be won, the tournament was held for the first time in 1990 as a prize money tournament based on the western model. But this was also the last time the tournament took place.
The international tournament began in 1955 as a full tournament with competitions in men's singles and doubles, women singles and doubles and mixed doubles. The mixed competition took place for the last time in 1972. From 1973 onwards, a Nations Cup was played for men and women. As a rule, teams of two competed against each other, playing two singles and one double. In 1973, nine participating agencies played in groups of three and from 1974 onwards in the knockout system. The Nations Cup took up the first half of the tournament, followed by the singles and doubles competitions. In 1990 the Nations Cup was no longer played.
The "Usedom Senior Open" , an international senior tournament, has been taking place on the facility since 2007 .
Attendees
In addition to players from the socialist countries including Cuba , players from the Federal Republic of Germany (until the Wall was built in 1961 and again in 1990) and from Scandinavia (until 1967 before the start of the Open Era ) took part. The French workers' sports federation, Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du Travail, was represented in 1956 and 1959. In 1963, players from the People's Republic of China were also guests. A special tennis player at this location was the Australian Alan Lane , winner of the men's individual in 1960.
With Jadwiga Jędrzejowska , Ion Țiriac , Jan Kodeš , Ilie Năstase and Virginia Ruzici , five Grand Slam winners (inside) were also there in Zinnowitz.
The most successful player in the men's race was Thomas Emmrich , who won eleven times in singles and seven times in men's doubles. The record winner in the women's singles was Hella Riede with five successes. Eva Johannes won four times in the women's doubles the most . In mixed Vyacheslav Yegorov from the Soviet Union won four times the most. The record winners in the Nations Cup were the GDR , who won eleven times, and Czechoslovakia , who scored seven victories, among the women .
Finals
Men's singles
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Ladies singles
Men's doubles
Ladies doubles
mixed double
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Winner of the Nations Cup
Men's
| year | winner |
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| 1973 |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union ( Vladimir Korotkow , Anatoly Volkov )
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| 1974 |
 Czechoslovakia ( Jan Bedáň , Pavel Ševčík )
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| 1975 |
Soviet Union (2) ( Vyacheslav Yegorov , Vladimir Korotkow )
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| 1976 |
 GDR ( Thomas Emmrich , Andreas John )
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| 1977 |
GDR (2) (Thomas Emmrich, Andreas John)
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| 1978 |
GDR (3) ( Thomas Arnold , Thomas Emmrich)
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| 1979 |
GDR (4) (Thomas Arnold, Thomas Emmrich)
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| 1980 |
GDR (5) (Thomas Arnold, Thomas Emmrich)
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| 1981 |
GDR (6) (Thomas Emmrich, Steffen John )
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| 1982 |
 Poland ( Henryk Drzymalski , Witold Meres )
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| 1983 |
GDR (7) (Thomas Emmrich, Steffen John)
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| 1984 |
GDR (8) (Thomas Emmrich, Ralf Lichtenfeld )
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| 1985 |
GDR (9) (Thomas Emmrich, Ralf Lichtenfeld)
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| 1986 |
GDR (10) (Thomas Emmrich, Ralf Lichtenfeld)
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| 1987 |
GDR (11) (Thomas Emmrich, Ralf Lichtenfeld, Dietrich Schirmann )
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| 1988 |
Czechoslovakia (2) ( Tomáš Klimek , Marek Miskolci )
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| 1989 |
Czechoslovakia (3) ( Libor Hradecký , Petr Karliček )
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Ladies
| year | winner |
|---|---|
| 1973 |
GDR ( Brigitte Hoffmann , Veronika Koch )
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| 1974 |
GDR (2) (Brigitte Hoffmann, Veronika Koch)
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| 1975 |
Soviet Union ( Yevgenia Isopaitis , Marina Tschuwyrina )
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| 1976 |
Czechoslovakia ( Mária Kočišková , Jana Sedláčková )
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| 1977 |
Soviet Union (2) ( Yevgenia Biryukova , Jelena Granaturowa )
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| 1978 |
Czechoslovakia (2) ( Iva Budařová , Lea Plchová )
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| 1979 |
Soviet Union (3) ( Lyudmila Kravchenko , Lyudmila Makarowa )
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| 1980 |
 Hungary ( Katalin Fagyas , Éva Rózsavölgyi )
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| 1981 |
 Soviet Union (4) ( Irina Fadejewa , Lyudmila Makarowa)
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| 1982 |
Czechoslovakia (3) ( Nora Bajčíková , Anetta Bukovinská )
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| 1983 |
Hungary (2) ( Anna Németh , Éva Rózsavölgyi)
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| 1984 |
Czechoslovakia (4) (Nora Bajčíková, Ingrid Klestincová )
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| 1985 |
Czechoslovakia (5) ( Dominika Perutková , Kamila Politzerová )
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| 1986 |
Czechoslovakia (6) ( Ivona Matulíková , Renata Šmekálová )
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| 1987 |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria ( Raliza Miloriewa , Dora S. Rangelowa )
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| 1988 |
Soviet Union (5) ( Natalja Rewa , Julija Salnikowa )
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| 1989 |
Czechoslovakia (7) ( Andrea Barochová , Markéta Nová )
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Trivia
The last final and thus also the last match of the tournament fell on July 1, 1990, the day of the currency reform from Mark of the GDR to D-Mark .
literature
- Deutscher Tennis Bund eV: Tennis in Germany - From the beginnings to the present, a hundred years of the German Tennis Federation
- Ute Spohler: Pictures from the GDR - Zinnowitz, a photo album , Sutton Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-528-6 , p. 116
- Neue Berliner Illustrierte - 30/1955 - July 3rd issue, Berliner Verlag , 16 pages
- Victories of favorites in Zinnowitz , New Germany , June 27, 1966
- Tennis, organ of the German Tennis Association of the GDR (1957–1990)
Movie
- The eyewitness 1955/28 (AZ 28/1955) , documentary 1955, DEFA , 8th sport in the picture: 1st international tennis tournament in the seaside resort of the Wismut buddies Zinnowitz from June 26 - 3.7.1955 - Game between Werner Helmrich and GDR champion Karl-Heinz Sturm
Web pages
References and comments
- ↑ Usedom Open (usedom-open.de, accessed on February 10, 2018)
- ↑ Usedom Island: "US OPEN" on the Baltic Sea (tennismagazin.de from July 5, 2014, accessed on February 10, 2018)
- ↑ a b c Due to bad weather the final was not held.