LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin
| LTTC "Rot-Weiß" Berlin e. V. | |
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| Founding: | 1897 |
| Club colors: | Red White |
| Contact: | LTTC "Rot-Weiß" Berlin e. V. Gottfried-von-Cramm-Weg 47-55 14193 Berlin |
| Website: | https://www.rot-weiss-berlin.de/ |
| Board: | Dietrich Wolter |
| Number of places: | Total: 18 open-air places: 16 indoor places: 2 |
| Audience capacity: | Steffi Graf Stadium (Center Court A): 7000 seats Center Court B: 1500 seats |
| Members: | 1,150 (as of April 2008) |
| Game operation: | Men: 2nd Bundesliga North Women: Regionalliga North-East |
The LTTC “Rot-Weiß” e. V. is a traditional Berlin tennis club.
The Lawn Tennis Tournament Club was founded in 1897. From 1979 to 2008 the club hosted the German Open , one of the former largest WTA tournaments worldwide. In the past, a number of Davis Cup games were played on the Grunewald facility.
The facility at Hundekehlesee (Gottfried-von-Cramm-Weg) includes the Steffi-Graf-Stadion (Center Court A, since 1996 , 7000 spectators), Center Court B and 17 other clay courts, plus a hall with two carpet courts and that Clubhouse.
The 1st men and 1st women teams played in the tennis league for a long time . Well-known former players included Gottfried von Cramm , Boris Becker and Steffi Graf . Nowadays the LTTC “Rot-Weiß” Berlin primarily focuses on good youth work. The club not only won the "Bruckmann Cup" for the best youth work in Berlin and Brandenburg in 2007, but also has the youngest women's team in the 2nd Bundesliga.
profile
"Rot-Weiß" is known for its tournament events. For decades it was the Whitsun tournaments at Hundekehlensee. The women's tournaments at the German Open have been important since 1979 . Steffi Graf has won the title nine times in her career. Many important German tennis players have represented the red and white colors of the most successful German tennis club. Names of past tennis generations such as Cilly Aussem , Otto Froitzheim , Henner Henkel , Hans Moldenhauer , Hans-Jürgen Pohmann , Roman Najuch and Daniel Prenn wore the red and white club jacket.
The 1st men's team and the 1st women's team play in the Regionalliga Nord-Ost. In 2011, Sabine Lisicki was the club's most famous player. Also Xenija Pervak , Diana Enache and Simona Dobra were in the WTA world ranking lists.
history
The club was founded in 1897 as the Lawn Tennis Tournament Club (LTTC). In 1906 the area on Hundekehlensee between the railway embankment and Königsallee in Grunewald was acquired by the Prussian forestry treasury and was the venue for numerous tournaments, including international ones. In 1943 the club area was completely destroyed by an air raid during the Second World War. In 1947 the club was re-established and Wolfgang A. Hofer was elected chairman. In 1949 gaming operations in Grunewald began again. In 1950 the Whitsun tournament was canceled for political reasons.
The club has held an international youth tournament since 1950. The winners lists include some of the most prominent names in tennis, including a. Björn Borg , Yannick Noah , Pat Cash , Boris Becker and Anke Huber . Nowadays the tournament is known as the air berlin Junior Open and is part of the international ITF series.
In 1958, Gottfried von Cramm was elected club chairman and president.
Steffi Graf has been a member of the club since 1984 and has also participated in team games for the Red-White.
Even Boris Becker has actively represented the club from 1985 to 1987. He won Wimbledon for the first time as a “red and white” player and in autumn 1985 played his first exhibition match on Center Court at the dog's throat. As early as 1983 he was able to enter himself into the list of winners of the club's international youth championships.
With Christian Kuhnke, Hans-Jürgen Pohmann and Harald Elschenbroich, the club became the record winner of the tennis Bundesliga in the 1970s. The multiple win of the Senate Prize (2007 for the 31st time since 1950) for the best youth work proves the great importance that the association traditionally attaches to the promotion of young people.
A good team of coaches was always a prerequisite for this. Famous and recognized tennis teachers from Roman Najuch to “Hanne” Nüßlein , Kurt Pohmann and Pavil Slozil were in the service of the club.
The "tennis baron" Gottfried von Cramm was President of the Rot-Weiß until his death in 1976. In his memory, the street leading to the club was renamed Gottfried-von-Cramm-Weg in the 1990s .
The club's site has hosted many international matches and has so far hosted by far the largest number of Davis Cup matches on German soil. The new Center Court tennis stadium, completed in 1996, has a capacity for up to 7,000 visitors. In addition to the successful architectural integration of the facility into the natural environment, this new tennis stadium is the only one in the world that can adapt the spectator capacity to requirements. Mechanically extendable grandstand parts ensure this.
With a solemn ceremony in September 2004, the Center Court was named the most successful German tennis player of all time: Steffi-Graf-Stadion .
In 2005 the Qatar Tennis Federation took over the role of organizer of the women's championships from the German Tennis Association . In 2008, however, the Qatar tennis association returned the license, which meant that there was no longer a German Open tournament in Grunewald. The Qatar left the LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin around 1 million euros in outstanding bills.
Up until 2010, the club was a total of 13 German men's team champions and three times German women's team champions. The seniors over 65 were also three times German team champions.
Other sports
The club's women's hockey team became the first German champions on the field in 1940 .
The club's men's ice hockey team was German runner-up in 1941 and 1944 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Tennis in Germany from the beginnings to the present, Berlin 2002, page 65f.
- ↑ a b - ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/ende-eines-tennismythos/1418294.html
- ^ Hockeyplatz.de German championships
literature
- Tennis in Germany from the beginning to the present, 100 Years of the German Tennis Association, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10846-9
North: Wilhelmshavener THC | Bielefeld TTC | TC Iserlohn | TC Bredeney Essen | Bremen Tennis Club from 1912 | TC Blau-Weiss Berlin | LTTC Red-White Berlin | The Club on the Alster | TC Blau-Weiss Neuss
South: TV Reutlingen | TSV 1860 Rosenheim | Wiesbaden THC | TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim | BASF TC Ludwigshafen | TC White-Blue Würzburg | TC blue white Oberweier | TC Amberg am Schanzl | SpVgg Hainsacker
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 7 ″ N , 13 ° 15 ′ 29 ″ E