TC Rot-Weiß Neu-Isenburg
The Rot-Weiß Neu-Isenburg e. V. is a tennis club from the Hessian city of Neu-Isenburg .
history
Founded on June 2, 1928 as the first tennis club in Neu-Isenburg , after the tennis department of the gymnastics club had joined the young club in 1862 , the name of the club was changed to the current name in 1933. A bomb attack during the Second World War destroyed the club's facilities on Brunnenstrasse in December 1942 and games came to a standstill. After the facility was reopened in 1952 after being used by the American occupation troops, a new clubhouse was built two years later. In the following years, nine courses with a clubhouse were built on the new site. The construction of the first four places was completed in September 1962, the old facility abandoned in 1967. Harald Keydel will act as chairman of the association, which now has eleven clay courts and its own indoor tennis court.
successes
Sporting success came in the last quarter of the last century. The men's team, which had been promoted to the league in 1971, became the Hessian team champion in 1975 and thus rose to the Southwest Regionalliga. The women won the finals of the Regionalliga Südwest in 1993 and by winning the promotion games against LTTC Berlin , RC Hamm and TC Riemerling , the team consisting of Meike Babel , Stefanie Meyer, Sandra Groschwitz, Stefanie Keim, Caroline Christian and Jeanine Christian moved away Team as the first of the Hessian Tennis Association to join the women's Bundesliga . In the period that followed, well-known players such as Dominique Van Roost , Petra Winzenhöller, Andrea Glass , Laurence Courtois , Anke Roos, Nina Nittinger, Julia Abe and Kristina Brandi played for the club. Under coach Larry Cooper, he made it into the last four in 1995 and then in 1997 with the German runner-up, the greatest success in the club's history. For financial reasons, however, the team was soon dissolved.