Oscar Kreuzer
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| Country (sports) | Germany | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 14 June 1887 Frankfurt am Main,German Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 May 1968(aged 80) Wiesbaden,West Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Plays | Left-handed (one-handed backhand)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | SF (1913) | ||||||||||||||
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| WHCC | F (1912) | ||||||||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 3R (1913) | ||||||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| WHCC | W(1912) | ||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (1908) | ||||||||||||||
| Mixed doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 2R (1913, 1927) | ||||||||||||||
| Team competitions | |||||||||||||||
| Davis Cup | SF (1913,1914) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Oscar Kreuzer(German pronunciation:[ˈɔskaʁˈkʁɔʏtsɐ];14 June 1887 – 3 May 1968) was a maletennisandrugbyplayer fromGermany.[2]
Biography[edit]
Kreuzer was born atFrankfurt am Mainon 14 June 1887.[1]
He played at the1908 Summer Olympicsand at the1912 Summer OlympicsinStockholm,Swedenwhere he won a bronze medal in the men's singles tournament.[3]In 1912, he also reached the final at theWorld Hard Court Championshipsat Paris which he lost to his compatriotOtto Froitzheim.AtWimbledon,he reached his best result in 1913 where he advanced to the semifinals before being stopped byStanley Doust.
Besides tennis, Kreuzer also excelled atrugby.He won the German championships with his clubSC 1880 Frankfurtin 1910, and played severalcapsfor Germany.[1]
At the end of July 1914, he andOtto Froitzheimplayed the semifinal of theInternational Lawn Tennis ChallengeatPittsburghagainstAustralasia.WhenWorld War Ibroke out, the president of the local tennis club kept this from Froitzheim and Kreuzer as he didn't want to disrupt the match. The German team lost 0–5. On their way back to Germany, their ItaliansteamboatAmericawas halted offGibraltarby a British warship and they were placed in a prison in Gibraltar for several months before being sent to detention camps in England. While Kreuzer stayed at a camp nearLeeds,officer Froitzheim was kept atDonnington Halluntil the end of the war in 1918.[4][5][6]
In 1920 he won theInternational German Championshipsat the Rothenbaum club inHamburg,defeatingLouis Maria Heydenin the final in three straight sets.
After he retired from playing tennis tournaments, Kreuzer settled atWiesbaden,near his friend Froitzheim. He died there on 3 May 1968.[1]
References[edit]
- ^abcdKaiser, Ulrich (2002). "Der zweite Mann". In Deutscher Tennis Bund (ed.).Tennis in Deutschland. Von den Anfängen bis 2002[Tennis in Germany. From the beginnings to 2002.] (in German). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 78–79.ISBN3-428-10846-9.
- ^"Oscar Kreuzer".Olympedia.Retrieved12 April2021.
- ^"Oscar Kreuzer Olympic Results".sports-reference.com.Archived fromthe originalon 30 June 2017.Retrieved13 May2013.
- ^"Friotzheim, Tennis Star, is Heard From".The Pittsburgh Press.16 January 1916.
- ^"Tennis Men Interned"(PDF).The New York Times.14 February 1915.
- ^Gillmeister, Heiner (2002). "Kleine und große Geschichte – Davis Cup". In Deutscher Tennis Bund (ed.).Tennis in Deutschland. Von den Anfängen bis 2002[Tennis in Germany. From the beginnings to 2002.] (in German). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 53–54.ISBN3-428-10846-9.
External links[edit]
- 1887 births
- 1968 deaths
- German male tennis players
- Olympic tennis players for Germany
- Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in tennis
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- SC 1880 Frankfurt players
- Tennis players from Frankfurt