Rot-Weiss Tennis Club
Werner Ellerkmann
Total: 18 Outdoor seats: 16 Courts: 2
Steffi Graf Stadium: 7000 places Centre Court B: 1500 courses
1,150 (as of April 2008)
Men: Regionalliga Nord -Ost ( Season 2011) Ladies: Regionalliga Nord -Ost ( Season 2011)
The LTCC " Red-White " is a traditional Berlin eV tennis club.
Founded in the lawn tennis tournament club in 1897. Since 1979 the club organizer of the German Open, one of the biggest WTA tournaments in the world. In the past, a number of Davis Cup matches were played at the plant in Grunewald.
The plant at Hundekehlesee ( Gottfried von Cramm -Weg ) includes Steffi Graf Stadion ( Center Court A, 1996, 7000 spectators ), Centre Court B and 17 more clay courts, plus a hall with two carpet squares and the clubhouse.
The crews of the first men and the first ladies played a long time in the tennis league. Former players were among other things, Steffi Graf, Boris Becker, tennis Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Hans -Jürgen Pohmann. Today, the LTCC " Rot-Weiss" Berlin focuses particularly on good youth work. The club not only won in 2007 the " Bruckmann Cup " for the best youth work in Berlin and Brandenburg, but also the youngest women's team in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Chronicle Tennis
Founded in 1897, the club celebrated its 111th birthday in 2008. It is known " Red-White " by his tournament events. For decades it was the " Pentecostal Tournaments " in the dog 's throat. In 1906 the site was the game operation in Grunewald was erworben.1949 on Hundekehlensee between railway embankment and King Avenue in the Grunewald forest by the Prussian Treasury started again. 1950, however, the Pfingstturnier fell out of political reasons.
Since 1979, the women's tournaments at the German Open are significant. Steffi Graf has won a total of nine times in her career, the title. Graf is a member of the club since 1984 and has also participated in team games for the red and white. 2005 has assumed the role of the organizer of the Women's Championships of the German Tennis Federation, the Qatar Tennis Federation, now called the Qatar Telecom German Open and remain one of the biggest tournaments on the WTA Women's Tour. However, 2009 has returned the license of the Tennis Federation of Qatar, who owned the Berlin Women's Tournament since 2004, which took place in the Grunewald no German Open tournament more. The Qataris have left the LTCC Red-White Berlin about 1 million euros in open invoices. Whether the tournament is once again taking place not known .. The club but persists.
In general, many important German tennis player who represented the red and white colors of Germany's most successful tennis clubs. Names of past generations such as tennis Froitzheim Otto, Hans Moldenhauer, Henner Henkel, Daniel Prenn, Cecily Aussem wore the red and white Club Jacket. And Gottfried von Cramm played for Berlin. The " tennis Baron" was for many years president of the Red-White. In his memory, was the road leading to the club, renamed already in the nineties of the last century in Gottfried von Cramm - way.
Boris Becker once made the club from 1985 to 1987 actively represented. He has been called " Red - White " for the first time Wimbledon champion and played in the fall of 1985 his first exhibition match on center court at the dog 's throat. As early as 1983 he had been able to enter the list of winners of the International Junior Championships of the club.
With Christian Kuhnke, Hans -Jürgen Pohmann and Harald Elschenbroich the club record winner of the Tennis League in the 1970s. The many lives of winning the Senate Prize (2007 for the 31st time since 1950) for the best youth work clearly shows the immense value that the club also attaches youth and youth development traditionally.
A good coaching staff was always a prerequisite for it. Famous and recognized tennis coach Roman Najuch about " Hanne " Nüßlein, Kurt Pohmann and Pavil Slozil were in the service of the club. Today, the entire youth and youth development of the red-white -tennis -Company is covered under the leadership of former national coach Nic Mars Chand.
The club grounds has hosted many international matches and has been aligned with the distance most Davis Cup matches on German soil. The completed in 1996 new center court tennis stadium has a capacity for up to 7,000 visitors. In addition to the successful architectural integration of the plant into the natural environment of this new tennis stadium is the world's only one that can adjust the seating capacity to demand. This is ensured mechanically extendable stand parts.
With a solemn ceremony of the center court was named the most successful German tennis player of all time in September 2004: Steffi Graf Stadium.
The club was (as of 2010 ) 13 times German team champion of the men and 3 times German team champion of the ladies. The over 65s were also three times German team champion.
Since 1950, the club conducts an international youth tournament. In the winner lists you will find some of the most prominent names of tennis, including Bjorn Borg, Yannick Noah, Pat Cash, Boris Becker and Anke Huber. Nowadays the tournament as air berlin Junior Open is known and a part of the international ITF series.
The first men's team and the first women's team currently play in the Regionalliga Nord -Ost. In 2011, Sabine Lisicki is the most famous player of the club. Xenija Also Pervak , Diana Enache and Simona Dobra were listed in the WTA world rankings.
Other sports
The hockey women's team of the club was established in 1940 the first German champion on the field.
The ice hockey men's team of the club in 1941 and 1944, German Vice Champion.