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German National Championships 1975

General Date1975-07-01 - 1975-07-06
Tournament typeOpen
SurfaceClay
Rounds6
CityMannheim, TK Grün-Weiss
CountryGermany

Source Deutsche Tennis Zeitung

Info This draw was tailormade for the German players who performed at Wimbledon in the previous week, although Ulrich Pinner was not given a direct entry into the quarter-finals. However, the good intentions of the officials were thwarted by Fassbender/Pohmann who made it into the the doubles semifinals where they lost in 5 sets to Vitas Gerulaitis and Sandy Mayer. Karl Meiler, the most succesfull german tennis player of the seventies, finally won the national singles title after many bitter disappointments in the previous championships. Astonishingly, it proved to be his only national title on clay. He lost two other singles finals in 1979 (to Gehring) and 1984 (to Maurer) and never won the doubles title even though he was a very successful doubles player who took 18 Grand Prix level titles including the World Doubles Championship in 1976.

Media

Winner Player Karl Meiler

Players

Michael Bamberg
Mario Brenner
Harald Elschenbroich
Hans Engert jr
Jurgen Fassbender
Karl Fichtel
Helmut Fickentscher
Thomas Fürst
Frank Gebert
Rolf Gehring
Ralph Geiger
Erwin Jäger
Lutz Jelitto

Hartmut Kirchhubel (Kirchhübel)
Attila Korpas
Klaus Kuhlmey
Alex Kurucz
Herbert Loerke
Ulrich (Ulli) Marten
Karl Meiler
Harald Neuner
Rolf Pinner
Ulrich (Ulli) Pinner
Hans Joachim Ploetz (Plötz)
Hans Jurgen Pohmann
Wolfgang Popp

Reinhart Probst
Joachim Rohwedder
Helmut Rudzinski
Heiner Seuss
Lutz Steinhofel (Steinhöfel)
Waldemar Timm
Andreas Trenkle
Willibald Winn
Max Wunschig
Werner Zirngibl

Rounds
Round 1

Hans Joachim Plotz*
Mario Brenner

6-2 2-6 6-3 6-0

Rolf Pinner*
Lutz Jelitto

6-2 6-2 6-3

Rolf Gehring*
Thomas Fürst

6-3 6-1 6-4

Karl Fichtel*
Ralph Geiger

6-2 6-0 7-6

Max Wunschig*
Herbert Loerke

7-5 6-3 6-0

Ulrich (Ulli) Marten*
Heiner Seuss

6-0 4-6 7-6 7-5

Helmut Fickentscher*
Alex Kurucz

6-3 7-5 4-6 1-6 6-3

Frank Gebert*
Werner Zirngibl

6-4 6-4 7-6

Ulli Pinner*
Klaus Kuhlmey

7-6 6-1 6-3

Willibald Winn*
Wolfgang Popp

5-7 6-0 6-3 6-3

Joachim Rohwedder*
Hartmut Kirchhubel

4-6 6-4 6-4 4-6 6-4

Waldemar Timm*
Harald Neuner

6-2 6-3 6-4

Hans Engert jr*
Andreas Trenkle

4-6 7-6 3-6 6-1 6-0

Erwin Jäger*
Michael Bamberg

7-5 6-3 6-4

Lutz Steinhofel*
Reinhart Probst

6-1 6-1 6-1

Helmut Rudzinski*
Attila Korpas

6-3 6-4 6-4

Round 2

Hans Joachim Plotz*
Rolf Pinner

7-6 6-1 6-1

Rolf Gehring*
Karl Fichtel

6-4 6-7 6-1 4-6 6-4

Max Wunschig*
Ulrich (Ulli) Marten

2-6 6-4 6-1 6-4

Frank Gebert*
Helmut Fickentscher

6-2 6-1 6-0

Ulli Pinner*
Willibald Winn

6-4 6-4 6-3

Waldemar Timm*
Joachim Rohwedder

6-4 6-3 6-0

Hans Engert jr*
Erwin Jäger

6-4 7-6 6-2

Helmut Rudzinski*
Lutz Steinhofel

6-4 6-0 7-5

Round 3

Hans Joachim Plotz*
Rolf Gehring

7-5 6-0 6-1

Frank Gebert*
Max Wunschig

6-4 7-5 6-1

Ulli Pinner*
Waldemar Timm

6-4 6-4 6-1

Hans Engert jr*
Helmut Rudzinski

6-3 6-1 3-6 6-1

Quarterfinals

Harald Elschenbroich*
Hans Joachim Plotz

7-5 6-4 7-5

Karl Meiler*
Frank Gebert