Roman Najuch

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Roman Najuch in 1928 in Berlin-Grunewald, championship game in professional tennis
Photo by Georg Pahl (1900–1963)

Roman Najuch (born February 15, 1893 ; † 1967 in West Berlin ) was a German tennis teacher and one of the first professional tennis players in Germany .

Life

Originally he came from an area in what is now Poland , which at that time still belonged to the Russian Empire . The family had fled the revolutionary unrest to Germany, and he was later able to acquire German citizenship . He came into contact with tennis as an eight-year-old student, earning his first money as a ball boy. He first became a student of George Kerr in Berlin , but he left Germany in 1910.

Najuch was a tennis instructor at the KTHC Stadion Rot-Weiss and the LTTC Rot-Weiss Berlin . Due to the then applicable amateur rules, as they had been issued in 1920 by the International Tennis Federation , he could not take part in many tournaments. He trained u. a. Cilly Aussem . Marshall Jon Fisher called him one of the best tennis players of the time. In the 1930s he ran the “Rot-Weiß Tennis-Studio Roman Najuch” in Berlin. In 1947 the "Sports Commission for Professional Tennis Players" was founded under his chairmanship. In the 10-part television series How I started (1957–1958) he had the opportunity to present his career in person. In 1963 he celebrated his 70th birthday in Berlin. For many years he was on the board of the Association of German Tennis Teachers (VDT).

successes

In 1911 Najuch took part in the first German Pro Championships in Berlin, but lost in the final against Karel Koželuh , who also won 6: 2 and 6: 3 in Wiesbaden in the spring of 1912 . In October 1912 he could not take part in the national German championships because he still had Russian citizenship. In 1913 he won the German championship title twice and was able to successfully defend it in 1914. In 1914 he beat the Italian J. Negro (ITA) in Nice and also took part in amateur tournaments. Since then has been among the top 10. In 1919 he competed against Willi Hannemann . From 1921 to 1923 he was again German champion. He took part in the Bristol Cup for the first time in December 1924 and reached the semifinals. In October 1925 he became German professional champion for the seventh time. On July 10, 1925, in a meeting between professionals and amateurs, Otto Froitzheim beat 6: 1 6: 4 6: 4. At a tournament on May 9, 1926 in Berlin, he defeated Karel Kozeluh 6: 3, 6: 4, 0: 6 and 6: 3. On September 21, 1926 Roman Najuch won his eighth German Pro title in Hamburg. He also won the German Pro Championships in 1928 and 1929. As a result, he had won this title 11 times before he was finally defeated by Hans Nüsslein in 1931 .

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Tuchen: Cilly Aussem - the life of the first German Wimbledon winner. Shaker Media, Aachen 2008. p. 45 f.
  2. ^ History. International Tennis Federation, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-erste-deutsche-tenniskoenigin.871.de.html?dram:article_id=127383
  4. ^ Marshall Jon Fisher: A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis MatchEver Played , Crown / Archetype 2009. Page 56
  5. ↑ http://www.tvbb-matchball.de/archiv/2012/01/files/assets/basic-html/page33.html
  6. ↑ http://www.vdt-tennis.de/JubiVDT/contents/1941/1941frame.html
  7. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7053820/?ref_=tt_cl_i1
  8. ↑ https://www.tvbb.de/images/Tennis-Magazine/1960-1969/10---Berliner-Tennis---Blatt-1963_web.pdf
  9. ↑ https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/professional-tennis-before-1926-part-i.268193
personal data
SURNAME Najuch, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis teacher and one of the first professional tennis players in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1893
DATE OF DEATH 1967
Place of death West Berlin