Break follows von Cramm’s remarkable sporting career from 1933-1945. A two-time French Open winner and world number one in 1937, he was also a three-time Wimbledon finalist and a global sports icon.
One of the forgotten stories of the Nazi regime is their oppression of their own tennis hero, Gottfried von Cramm. Born into an aristocratic family and possessing stereotypical Aryan good looks, von ...
MARK 1937 as the year of tennis’s New Deal. It began at Wimbledon, with Budge’s winning the singles, and the men’s and the mixed doubles, and the Davis Cup. Budge was eleven when that unwieldy chalice ...
Heute vor 17 Jahren starb das einstige Tennis-Wunderkind Sidney Wood, das in Wimbledon auf kuriose Art Geschichte schrieb.