Mary Teran de Weiss

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María "Mary" Terán de Weiss (born January 29, 1918 in Rosario , † December 8, 1984 in Mar del Plata ) was an Argentine tennis player who was the first to have international success.

Life

María Luisa Beatriz Terán started out with swimming. She emphasized her desire to play tennis by practicing air strikes with the guitar at home. On her twelfth birthday, she got her first tennis racket. In 1937 she became national junior champion and in 1941 national champion for the first time. Between 1939 and 1948 she won the Campeonato del Río de la Plata eight times . In 1943 she married the tennis player Heraldo Weiss .

In 1945 she took part in the US National Championships . Since 1948 she played regularly in Europe. In 1948 she won the consolation round at the tournament in Wimbledon , 1949 a. a. the International German Tennis Championships . In 1950 she was led on the world rankings by John Olliff in tenth place. At the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires in 1951 , she won gold in singles and doubles with Felisa Piédrola der Zappa , as well as bronze in mixed with Alejo Russell . Her husband died in 1952 at the age of only 35. At the Pan American Games in 1955 , she won again with Alejo Russell bronze in the mixed competition.

As a functionary of the sports policy of President Juan Perón , she became an undesirable person after the military coup of 1955 in Argentina and moved first to Montevideo and then to Spain, where she was again national champion in 1957. In 1959 she returned to Argentina without being able to really gain a foothold there. In 1963, when she wanted to take part in the national women's club championships for River Plate , the entire championship was canceled after calls for a boycott.

Suicide

After trying to commit suicide on November 15, 1984 with an overdose of sleeping pills, she was invited by a family friends of her late mother to her apartment in Mar del Plata, where she lived on December 8, 1984 on the seventh floor jumped out of the window and died on impact with the first floor canopy.

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Career
French Open  x - - VF - - - VF - - - - 1 - - VF
Wimbledon x - - 2 3 AF 2 3 3 - 2 - 1 3 2 AF
US Open AF - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AF

Double

competition 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Career
French Open  x - - AF - - - 2 - - - - 1 - - AF
Wimbledon x - - 2 2 1 1 (2) AF - 1 - 1 2 1 AF
US Open AF - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AF

Mixed

competition 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Career
French Open  x - - AF - - - 2 - - - - AF - - AF
Wimbledon x - - 1 AF 2 3 (2) 2 - 1 - 2 2 2 AF
US Open 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1

Honors

  • The largest tennis stadium in South America, built in 2006 in Buenos Aires as Parque Roca, was named in 2007 ( Estadio Mary Terán de Weiss ).
  • In 2017, a street was named after her in her native Rosario.

literature

  • Roberto Andersen: Mary Terán de Weiss, in Ediciones Fabro, 2012, ISBN 9789871677627 , also in Italian translation 2018 in Bradipolibri (Mary Terán de Weiss, La tennista del popolo), ISBN 9788899146559

Web links

Commons : Mary Terán de Weiss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justo homenaje a una hija pródiga de Rosario, Mary Terán de Weiss (Just honor for a lost daughter of Rosario, Mary Terán de Weiss), article by Eduardo Toniolli from September 20, 2017 on http://www.elmundoamateur.com.ar
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Mary Terán de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiss, María Terán de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION argentinian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1984
Place of death Mar del Plata