Karl Meiler

Karl Meiler
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	April 30, 1949
Date of death:	17th April 2014
Size:	182 cm
Weight:	75 kg
Resignation:	1986
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	232: 173
Career title:	4th
Highest ranking:	20 (August 23 1973)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	188: 122
Career title:	17th
Highest ranking:	12 (23 August 1977)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Karl Meiler (born April 30, 1949 in Erlangen , † April 17, 2014 in Augsburg ) was a German tennis player and coach.

Career

Karl Meiler led the German tennis rankings as number 1 for five years between 1974 and 1979. In the 1970s and early 1980s he represented German tennis together with Hans-Jürgen Pohmann and Jürgen Faßbender , and later also Uli Pinner . Karl Meiler won four ATP titles in singles, a. a. against Jimmy Connors in Omaha in 1974 and against Guillermo Vilas in Buenos Aires in 1972 . He also reached 14 individual ATP finals. At the German Open in 1973 he reached the final, but was defeated by the American Eddie Dibbs . Karl Meiler was even more successful with 17 doubles titles, especially with Jürgen Faßbender and Wojciech Fibak . With Fibak he won the ATP doubles world championship in Kansas City in 1976. He also played for 13 years (1967-1979) for the German Davis Cup team . Karl Meiler co-founded the Association of Tennis Professionals in 1971 .

From 1985 to 1997 Karl Meiler was national coach and responsible for the B-team. These included Michael Stich , Carl-Uwe Steeb , Bernd Karbacher , David Prinosil , Jens Knippschild and Rainer Schüttler . He then worked as a private trainer for German and Austrian tennis professionals.

Karl Meiler died of the consequences of a fall that had already occurred in his home in November 2013. He has been in a coma ever since.

Player statistics

singles

title

No.	year	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	1972	ATP Buenos Aires	sand	Guillermo Vilas	6: 7, 2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 4
2.	1974	Omaha Open	Hard court	Jimmy Connors	6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 1
3.	1974	Calgary Indoor	Hard court	Byron Bertram	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
4th	1977	Philippine International Tennis Tournament	Hard court	Manuel Orantes	walkover

Final participation

No.	year	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	1973	ATP Memphis	Hard court	Jimmy Connors	6: 7, 6: 7, 3: 6
2.	1973	Berlin Open	Hard court	Hans-Jürgen Pohmann	3: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6, 3: 6
3.	1973	ATP Hamburg	sand	Eddie Dibbs	1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 7, 3: 6
4th	1974	Roanoke International Tennis Tournament	Hard court	Jimmy Connors	4: 6, 3: 6
5.	1974	Arkansas International Tennis Tournament	carpet	Jimmy Connors	2: 6, 1: 6
6th	1974	Tennis South Invitational	carpet	Sandy Mayer	6: 7, 5: 7
7th	1974	Equity Tournament Washington	Hard court	Vijay Amritraj	4: 6, 3: 6
8th.	1974	Oslo Open	Hard court	Jeff Borowiak	3: 6, 2: 6
9.	1975	Bahamas International	Hard court	Jimmy Connors	0: 6, 2: 6
10.	1975	ATP Munich	sand	Guillermo Vilas	6: 2, 0: 6, 2: 6, 3: 6
11.	1975	ATP Gstaad	sand	Ken Rosewall	4: 6, 4: 6, 3: 6
12.	1976	ATP Munich	sand	Manuel Orantes	1: 6, 4: 6, 1: 6
13.	1977	Brussels Outdoor	sand	Harold Solomon	5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 2, 3: 6, 4: 6
14th	1979	ATP Florence	sand	Raúl Ramírez	4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 3, 5: 7, 0: 6

Double

title

No.	year	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	1974	Omaha Open	Hard court	Jürgen Fassbender	Jim McManus Jim Osborne	6: 2, 6: 4
2.	1974	Baltimore WCT	carpet	Jürgen Fassbender	Owen Davidson Clark Graebner	7: 6, 7: 5
3.	1974	Arkansas International Tennis Tournament	carpet	Jürgen Fassbender	Vitas Gerulaitis Bob Hewitt	6-0, 6-2
4th	1974	Calgary Indoor	Hard court	Jürgen Fassbender	Iván Molina Jairo Velasco Sr.	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	1974	Tempe Open	Hard court	Jürgen Fassbender	Ian Fletcher Kim Warwick	4: 6, 6: 4, 7: 5
6th	1974	Oslo Open	Hard court	Haroon Rahim	Jeff Borowiak Vitas Gerulaitis	6: 3, 6: 2
7th	1975	ATP Birmingham	carpet	Jürgen Fassbender	Colin Dowdeswell John Yuill	6: 1, 3: 6, 7: 6
8th.	1975	Paris Masters	Hard court	Wojciech Fibak	Ilie Năstase Tom Okker	6: 4, 7: 6
9.	1975	Dewar Cup	carpet	Wojciech Fibak	Jimmy Connors Ilie Năstase	6: 1, 7: 5
10.	1976	Nuremberg Open	carpet	Frew McMillan	Colin Dowdeswell Paul Kronk	7: 6, 6: 4
11.	1976	Monte Carlo Masters	sand	Wojciech Fibak	Bjorn Borg Guillermo Vilas	7: 6, 6: 1
12.	1976	World Doubles WCT	carpet	Wojciech Fibak	Robert Lutz Stan Smith	6: 3, 2: 6, 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
13.	1976	Düsseldorf Grand Prix	sand	Wojciech Fibak	Bob Carmichael Raymond Moore	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 4
14th	1977	ATP Hamburg	sand	Bob Hewitt	Phil Dent Kim Warwick	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 4
15th	1977	Düsseldorf Grand Prix	sand	Jürgen Fassbender	Paul Kronk Cliff Letcher	6: 3, 6: 3
16.	1977	ATP Gstaad	sand	Jürgen Fassbender	Colin Dowdeswell Bob Hewitt	6: 4, 7: 6
17th	1979	Lorraine Open	Hard court	Klaus Eberhard	Robin Drysdale Andrew Jarrett	4: 6, 7: 6, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	year	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	1972	ATP Queen's Club	race	Jürgen Fassbender	Jim McManus Jim Osborne	6: 3, 3: 6, 5: 7
2.	1975	Hampton Grand Prix	Hard court	Jan Písecký	Ian Crookenden Ian Fletcher	2: 6, 7: 6, 4: 6
3.	1975	ATP Munich	sand	Milan Holeček	Wojciech Fibak Jan Kodeš	5: 7, 3: 6
4th	1975	ATP Barcelona	sand	Wojciech Fibak	Bjorn Borg Guillermo Vilas	6: 3, 4: 6, 3: 6
5.	1976	Atlanta Open	Hard court	Wojciech Fibak	John Alexander Phil Dent	3: 6, 4: 6
6th	1976	Barcelona WCT	sand	Wojciech Fibak	Robert Lutz Ramsey Smith	3: 6, 3: 6
7th	1976	ATP Nice	sand	Wojciech Fibak	Patrice Dominguez François Jauffret	4: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6
8th.	1978	ATP Auckland	Hard court	Rod Frawley	Russell Simpson Chris Lewis	6: 7, 1: 6

Web links

• ATP profile of Karl Meiler (English)
• ITF profile of Karl Meiler (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Karl Meiler (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spiegel.de April 20, 2014: Ex-Davis Cup player Meiler is dead
2. ↑ tennisnet.com December 10, 2013: The ten most successful German players - 6th place: Karl Meiler
3. ^ Ex-Davis Cup player Meiler is dead in Der Spiegel, April 20, 2014
4. ^ German Tennis Association mourns Karl Meiler . Southgerman newspaper. Retrieved February 20, 2016.