Great Poensgen games
The Great Poensgen Games are the seasonal German team championships for women of the 18 regional tennis associations in the German Tennis Association .
history
For the first time, the Great Poensgen Games in 1939 were named and held in honor of the long-time chairman and founder of the Rochus Club in Düsseldorf , Ernst Poensgen , a Düsseldorf industrialist and patron, who died in 1949 . Due to the war, the games were canceled from 1943 to 1947 and were played as the championship of the associations from 1948 . Since 2006, the Poensgen and Meden Games have been merged as the Große Meden- / Poensgen Games and usually take place at the end of the summer season.
The counterpart to the Great Poensgen games are in the men the Great Meden Games (named after, Carl August von der Meden , a former President of the DTB) as the Poensgen games as a German team championships of the associations adding: Great get to have.
mode
The Great Poensgen Games were decided by two singles and one doubles from 1939 to 1942. From 1949 to 1952, four singles and two doubles decided the matches. From 1954 to 1989 they played six singles and three doubles, before returning to the original mode with two singles and one doubles in 1990. The game is played over two winning sets, with a match tie-break being played in the case of a third set . The tournament is always hosted by the winner of last year's event.
literature
- Deutscher Tennisbund eV: "Tennis in Germany - From the Beginnings to the Present, One Hundred Years of the Deutscher Tennisbund" , Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-4281-0846-6 . Pp. 306/307