TC Rot-Blau Regensburg

Tennis club Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V.
Regional association:	Bavarian Tennis Association
Founding:	1925
Club colors:	Red Blue
Contact:	Tennis club Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V. Dürerstraße 3 93051 Regensburg
Website:	http://www.tc-rotblau.de/
Board:	Peter Reiser
Number of places:	Total: 21 outdoor courts : 16 (clay) small pitch courts : 2 (clay) indoor courts: 3 (carpet) air- inflated indoor courts (winter): 2 (sand)
Members:	approx. 700 as of 2020
Game operation:	Women: Regionalliga Süd-Ost (2020 season) Men: Regionalliga Süd-Ost (2020 season)
Club successes:	Women's German champions 2016 , 2017 , 2018 Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga ( 2014 ) Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga (2012) Men's promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga (1998)

The tennis club Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V. is a German tennis club from Regensburg . The club currently has 38 teams with around 700 members (as of 2020). From 2015 to 2018 the first women's team played in the 1st Bundesliga , in 2016 it became German team champion for the first time and was able to successfully defend the title in the two following years.

history

The club was founded on May 6, 1925 as a tennis department in 1. FC Regensburg, which joined the Regensburg gymnastics club in 1934 . In 1977 the department moved to the newly built site in the Königswiesen district . In 2013, the tennis department split off from RT and has operated as an independent club ever since. The club attracted national attention with the promotion of the first women's team to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2013 , but at the latest when they were promoted to the 1st Bundesliga in 2014. With two of the best German players at the time, Julia Görges and Angelique Kerber , a strong one succeeded in the first year third place, in 2016 Rot-Blau Regensburg was unbeaten German team champion.

With Angelique Kerber , who has played team tennis in Regensburg since 2015, a red-blue player won a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the 2016 Australian Open and became number one in the world rankings . In the final of the US Open 2016 , Kerber and Karolína Plíšková faced two players from red-blue.

In the 2017 season , the Regensburg women were again unbeaten German champions. and in 2018 they were able to successfully defend the title. After the third championship in a row, however, the team reported back from the Bundesliga due to the withdrawal of the main sponsor.

Teams

Red-Blue's first women's team played in the Bundesliga since its promotion to the Bundesliga in 2013 under the name Eckert-Tennis-Team (after the main sponsor "Eckert Schools"). After withdrawing from the Bundesliga in 2018, she played in the third- tier Regionalliga Süd-Ost .

The first men's team of the TC Rot-Blau also plays in the Regionalliga Süd-Ost.

Well-known former players

All former players with at least one WTA title are given .

• Lara Arruabarrena (2018)
• Annika Beck (2017)
• Kirsten Flipkens (2017-2018)
• Julia Görges (2014-2018)
• Polona Hercog (2016)
• Angelique Kerber (2015-2017)
• Klára Koukalová (2015)
• Barbora Krejčíková (2013-2018)
• Johanna Larsson (2016-2018)
• Tatjana Maria (2015-2018)
• Elise Mertens (2018)
• Karolína Plíšková (2013-2016)
• Kristýna Plíšková (2013-2014)
• Maria Sakkari (2017)
• Chanelle Scheepers (2014-2015)
• Anastasija Sevastova (2018)
• Barbora Strýcová (2015)

Championship squad

German champion 2016			German champion 2017			German champion 2018
1.		Angelique Kerber	1.		Angelique Kerber	1.		Julia Goerges
2.		Karolína Plíšková	2.		Julia Goerges	2.		Anastasija Sevastova
3.		Petra Cetkovská	3.		Johanna Larsson	3.		Elise Mertens
4th		Julia Goerges	4th		Annika Beck	4th		Tatiana Maria
5.		Johanna Larsson	5.		Maria Sakkari	5.		Johanna Larsson
6th		Polona Hercog	6th		Kirsten Flipkens	6th		Kirsten Flipkens
7th		Tatiana Maria	7th		Tatiana Maria	7th		Lara Arruabarrena
8th.		Richèl Hogenkamp	8th.		Richèl Hogenkamp	8th.		Richèl Hogenkamp
9.		Lesley Kerkhove	9.		Tereza Martincová	9.		Arantxa Rus
10.		Andrea Hlaváčková	10.		Antonia Lottner	10.		Barbora Krejčíková
11.		Tereza Martincová	11.		Lesley Kerkhove	11.		Antonia Lottner
12.		Barbora Krejčíková	12.		Arantxa Rus	12.		Tereza Martincová
13.		Arantxa Rus	13.		Barbora Krejčíková	13.		Lesley Kerkhove
14th		Natela Dsalamidse	14th		Andrea Hlaváčková	14th		Natela Dsalamidse
15th		Caroline Ancicka	15th		Natela Dsalamidse	15th		Caroline Ancicka
16.		Kiara Traeger	16.		Caroline Ancicka	16.		Laura Dehmel

Web links

• Website TC Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Teams of the TC Rot-Blau Regensburg , tc-rotblau.de, accessed on February 17, 2020.
2. ^ History of the TC Rot-Blau Regensburg , tc-rotblau.de, accessed on January 16, 2017.
3. ↑ Eckert Tennis Team Regensburg German champions for the first time, Moers and Hanover relegated, damen-tennisbundesliga.de, July 10, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2017.
4. ↑ Felix Kronawitter: Kerber wins the Australian Open , Mittelbayerische.de, January 30, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2017.
5. ↑ Tobias Braun: Second title! Kerber wins the Regensburg Grand Slam final , wochenblatt.de, September 11, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2017.
6. ↑ Claus-Dieter Wotruba: The red-blue plan works for the 15th time , Mittelbayerische.de, June 11, 2017, accessed on June 14, 2017.
7. ↑ Jürgen Scharf: Eckert women end Bundesliga fairy tales , Mittelbayerische.de, October 1, 2018, accessed on April 27, 2020.
8. ↑ TC Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V. (08004) women, summer 2016 , German Tennis Association, accessed on May 18, 2017.
9. ↑ TC Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V. (08004) women, summer 2017 , German Tennis Association, accessed on May 18, 2017.
10. ↑ TC Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V. (08004) women, summer 2018 , German Tennis Association, accessed on April 27, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 28.6 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 25.9 ″  E