Klaus Eberhard (tennis player)

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Klaus Eberhard (1977)
Klaus Eberhard (left) in doubles with Reinhart Probst (right); 1977

Klaus Eberhard (* 15. September 1957 in Datteln ) is since 1 January 2005 sports director of the German Tennis Federation and was German pro - tennis player .

Childhood and youth

Eberhard learned tennis from his father at the age of five. He worked in development aid in Egypt , which is why the family moved to Cairo for five years in 1963 . Klaus Eberhard had the opportunity to play tennis there every day. When Heinrich Kleinschroth , the long-time captain and official companion of the Davis Cup team with the German Davis Cup players Wilhelm Bungert , Christian Kuhnke and Jürgen Faßbender, came to Cairo, he saw the almost nine-year-old Klaus Eberhard playing tennis and recognized his talent. Kleinschroth wrote a recommendation to Karl-Heinz Philippi, the then youth warden of the German Tennis Federation (DTB), with the request to take care of the young talent after his return to Germany.

Returning to Germany in 1968, Eberhard received funding from the DTB at the Herten performance center . In 1969 he was Westphalia champion and in 1971 for the first time German youth champion. In the same year he moved to the HTV (Hannoverscher Tennisverein) in Hanover, as the DTB's performance center with long-time head coach Richard Schönborn was also located there. In 1973 he was again German youth champion and from then on played in the men's Bundesliga for the HTV. In 1974 he became German youth champion in doubles together with Ulrich Marten. 1973 to 1975 Eberhard belonged to the squad of the DTB, which came in 1975 to the final of the Orange Bowl , the unofficial youth world championships in Miami . Back then, only the Americans were stronger.

Professional career

The start of the professional career took place in 1976 with the appointment to the national team of men.

In 1977 Eberhard became Bundesliga champions with HTV Hannover. A year later he became German doubles champion with Kirchhübel in Hamburg. In 1980 he moved to the old master LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin for one season. In May 1980 he was the only German to make it into round 3 of the German Open . The German Open are part of the Masters series and are played annually in Hamburg-Rotherbaum . From December 1, 1980, Eberhard was again designated as number one for the HTV.

1980/81 Eberhard won the title of National German Indoor Tennis Champion in Hamburg. In the final in Hamburg he beat Reinhart Probst from TC Amberg 6: 4, 6: 3, 6: 0 in 68 minutes . The number two seeded Eberhard did not make a set until the final. After this success, the DTB named him together with Ulrich Pinner , Rolf Gehring (both from TC Blau-Weiss Neuss) and Christoph Zipf (HTV) for the games for the Kingscup 1981. The German team reached the goal - the entry into the finals of tennis Kingscup in Moscow - among 24 participating nations. From then on, Eberhard had a decisive influence on the national tournament scene. With the master’s victory against Karl Meiler in Bochum in 1982 , he was able to celebrate his greatest sporting success within the German tournament series.

In 1980 Eberhard was a member of the German Davis Cup team and played his only two individual games in the Davis Cup in the encounter against Sweden . He lost both games in four sets. He reached his highest place in the world rankings with 78th place. The best place in the German rankings was 2. In 1986 Eberhard ended his professional career, but played in the Bundesliga until the early 1990s.

Team boss

From 2003 to 2004 Eberhard was team leader of the German Fed Cup team .

Personal

Eberhard is married and has two sons. Son Philipp is also a tennis player.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ iphitos.de HEINRICH KLEINSCHROTH, Wimbledon finalist in doubles in 1913
  2. ↑ 40 years of NTV. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014 ; Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Westfalenpost v. 3rd February 1981
  4. ↑ K. Eberhard German Master 1980/81
  5. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung v. December 10, 1980 A tennis career like in a storybook

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personal data
SURNAME Eberhard, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Datteln , Germany