TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt
TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt | |
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Regional association: | |
Founding: | 1894 |
Club colors: | Blue White |
Contact: | TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt 1894 eV Am Ziegelofen (city forest) 46397 Bocholt |
Website: | http://www.tcbwbocholt.de |
Board: | Patrick Küppers |
Number of places: | 9 |
Audience capacity: | 4,500 |
Members: | 390 |
Game operation: | Women: 1st tennis Bundesliga |
Club successes: | German champion 2001, 2012, 2013, 2014 German runner-up 2000, 2010, 2011 |
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The tennis club Blau-Weiss Bocholt 1894 eV is a traditional tennis club from Bocholt .
The first women's team became German team champions in the Bundesliga in 2001 with top players Kim Clijsters and Barbara Schett and German runner-up in 2000, 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Coach Hartmut Bielefeld's team won the second championship title, which was successfully defended in 2013 and 2014. From 2005 to 2013, the club took on the role of TC WattExtra Bocholt , named after its sponsor, Bocholt's energy and water supply. Since the 2014 season, the Bundesliga team has been trading as TC Fidonia Bocholt , named after a financial service provider from Düsseldorf.
The TC Blau-Weiss facility is located in Bocholt's city forest and has nine tennis courts. The association currently has 450 members, including more than 150 young people.
History of the women's department
The women's teams have been the club's figurehead for more than two decades. The women's division was founded in 1986. The first team began in the district class and rose to the district league. In 1988 he was promoted to the 2nd association league, the following year the march through to the 1st association league. The road to success continued through the Oberliga (1995), Regionalliga (1997) to the first promotion to the tennis Bundesliga in 1998 with the then top player Patty Schnyder .
A year later, 16-year-old Kim Clijsters was announced. After finishing second in 2000, he won the German championship in 2001. Due to a lack of sponsors, it was decided to withdraw from the Bundesliga before the 2002 season. The TC Blau-Weiss withdrew in the Niederrheinliga and celebrated promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2004. With a new sponsor and under the name TC WattExtra , the return to the Bundesliga was made perfect in 2007. In 2008, the then unknown 16-year-old Dane Caroline Wozniacki was hired . The later world number one played for the Bocholt Bundesliga club for two years.
Bundesliga team 2014
- Alizé Cornet
- Lucie Šafářová
- Klára Koukalová
- Alexandra Cadanțu
- Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová
- Johanna Larsson
- Kiki Bertens
- Irina-Camelia Begu
- Renata Voráčová
- Richèl Hogenkamp
- Anna-Lena Grönefeld
- Amanda Hopmans
- Nicole Thijssen
- Chayenne Ewijk
- Anna-Maria Levers
- Tomke Schmitz
Achievements of the women's department
- German champion: 2001, 2012 , 2013 , 2014
- German runner-up: 2000, 2010 , 2011
- Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga: 1998, 2007
- Niederrheinmeister (Halle): 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012