 Gottfried von Cramm (left) and George Lyttleton Rogers of Ireland in 1932 | |
| Full name | Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm |
|---|---|
| Country (sports) |  Weimar Republic (until 1933) Nazi Germany (1933-1945) West Germany (from 1949) |
| Born | 7 July 1909 Nettlingen, German Empire |
| Died | 8 November 1976 (aged 67) Cairo, Egypt |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Turned pro | 1931 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1952 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1977 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 390–82 (82.6%)[1] |
| Career titles | 45[1] |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1937, ITHF)[2][3] |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (1938) |
| French Open | W (1934, 1936) |
| Wimbledon | F (1935, 1936, 1937) |
| US Open | F (1937) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | F (1938) |
| French Open | W (1937) |
| US Open | W (1937) |
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | W (1933) |
Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr[A][4] von Cramm (German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt fɔn ˈkʁam] ; 7 July 1909 – 8 November 1976) was a German tennis player who won the French Championships twice and reached the final of a Grand Slam singles tournament on five other occasions. He was ranked number 2 in the world in 1934 and 1936, and number 1 in the world in 1937.[2][5][6] He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977, which states that he is "most remembered for a gallant effort in defeat against Don Budge in the 1937 Interzone Final at Wimbledon".[3]
Von Cramm had difficulties with the Nazi regime, which attempted to exploit his appearance and skill as a symbol of Aryan supremacy, but he refused to identify with Nazism. Subsequently he was persecuted as a homosexual by the German government and was jailed briefly in 1938.
Von Cramm figured briefly in the gossip columns as the sixth husband of Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress.
- ^ a b Garcia, Gabriel. "Gottfried Von Cramm: Career match record". thetennisbase.com. Tennismem SL. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Budge Seeded First in All-England", Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 17 June 1937.
- ^ a b "Baron Gottfried von Cramm". www.tennisfame.com. International Tennis Hall of Fame.
- ^ Ron Fimrite (5 July 1993). "Baron of the Court". Sports Illustrated. Vol. 79, no. 1. pp. 56–69.
- ^ J. Brooks Fenno, Jr. (20 October 1934). "Ten at the Top in Tennis". The Literary Digest. New York City, United States: Funk & Wagnalls: 36.
- ^ "Wallis Myers' Rankings". The Age. 24 September 1936. p. 6 – via Google News Archive.