Adolf
Broese van Groenou
Male
Netherlands
1880-01-04
Jogjakarta, Indonesia
1961-05-19
Wassenaar, Den Haag, Netherlands
He was the first dutch player to play at Wimbledon (1903). Broese van Groenou later became best known as the chairman of the tennis association from 1922 to 1938. As an architect, he designed the main building of the M.E.T.S. courts in Scheveningen, in full the Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van de Tennisbanen Scheveningen.
He also drew the old logo of the tennis association, which was then still fully called the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Lawn Tennis Bond. “My father designed the logo with a simple rationale,” his daughter said in 2003. “The tulip was a happy national symbol and the background color had to be orange, that made sense. Then he had to come up with another color for the tulip. Black was the best at that.”
In 2014, however, it was said goodbye, although the basic colors were maintained. “A beautiful logo with history,” said Robert Jan Schumacher as the union's communications manager, “but not very recognizable. Many people who have nothing to do with tennis think that this is the logo of the agricultural and horticultural organization. Also because of the L and the T in the name KNLTB underneath.”
And then every year De Zwarte Tulp is awarded to the tennis association of the year – an indirect legacy of the tennis player who was the first Dutchman to participate in Wimbledon.
1895 - 1924
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Final
E.B. van Delden 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
8-6
2-6
6-4
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Round 2
Edward Wallace Hadingham 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
3-6
6-1
6-8
7-5
6-4
Semifinals
Otto Blom 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Leonardus Van Romunde
6-4
6-2
Round 2
Marinus (Maas) Van der Feen 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Cecil John Tindell-Green 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-4
3-6
6-4
Round 1
Tony Wilding 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
bye
Round 2
R. Van Steeden 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-4
6-2
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
J.J. Borgerhoff Mulder
10-12
6-1
6-3
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
R. Van Steeden
8-6
6-4
Quarterfinals
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Prince L. Ourousoff
3-6
6-4
6-2
Semifinals
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
W.E. Hechtermans
6-1
6-1
Final
Paul de Borman 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-2
6-1
6-4
Round 2
Georges Ferdinand Van der Stegen 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-0
6-0
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Henry William Leonard Steenstra Toussaint
6-1
6-3
Round 2
Roelof van Lennep 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Ferdinand Uhl
w.o.
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Peter Kuetgens
6-4
6-4
Quarterfinals
Wylie Grant 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-4
9-7
Round 1
Frederick William Payn 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
6-2
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
William Howard
3-6
6-4
8-6
Round 2
T. Cravens 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
0-6
6-4
6-3
Round 2
Frank Riseley 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-0
6-2
6-0
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
L. Sassen
6-0
6-2
Round 3
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Elisa Cornelis Unico (Eddy) Hartman
6-4
6-1
Quarterfinals
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Johannes Jacob Gerrit Pronk
5-7
7-5
6-2
Semifinals
John Flavelle 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
L. De Bruyn
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
William Percy Pinckney 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
bye
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Dolf Kessler
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Albert Julius Hankes-Drielsma
4-6
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Gerard Scheurleer
8-6
6-3
Final
August Willem Van Lennep 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
4-6
6-4
6-4
6-3
Quarterfinals
Frederick William Payn 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Theodoor Frederik (Theo) Vreede 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
7-5
6-3
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Rudolf Pummerer
6-1
6-4
Round 2
Frederick William Payn 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Hermann Kreuzer
6-1
6-3
Round 3
W.S. Thomson 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
4-6
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Baron De Chambaud
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Ulrich Eugene Verkerk
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Walter Georg Sommerhoff
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
Paul de Borman 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-0
6-2
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Nicolaas Beets Jr
1-6
11-9
6-3
Quarterfinals
Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-2
6-8
6-2
Round 1
Karel Beukema 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-4
11-9
Round 1
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Nicolaas Beets Jr
4-6
6-2
6-1
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
P. Louwerse
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Johannes Hendrikus Zaaijer
6-2
8-6
Semifinals
Baron Carel Van Rappard 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
4-6
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
William Howard 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-3
6-2
Unknown
Roelof van Lennep 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Jan Willem Cramerus
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Karel Beukema 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
8-6
6-3
Round 2
P.S. Cox 1 *
Adolf Broese van Groenou
6-2
6-4