Aleksandr Appolonovich
Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
Male
Russia
1884-11-29
St. Petersburg, Russia
1922-10-05
Moskwa (Moscow), Russia
A member of the Krestovsky Lawn Tennis Club in his native Saint Petersburg, Alexander Alenitsin was one of the best of the earliest Russian lawn tennis players. He notably won the men’s singles title at the Saint Petersburg Championships in 1909, 1910 and 1911, and the same time title at the Moscow Championships in 1910.
After the October Revolution in 1917, he remained in what was then called Petrograd as chairman of the Krestovsky Lawn Tennis Club, where he continued to organise lawn tennis competitions. However, on 15 September 1922, he was arrested by the Bolsheviks due to “contact with foreign countries” and imprisoned in the dungeons of the Cheka, the first of the Soviet secret police organisations. Alexander Alenitsin committed suicide after being subjected to torture.
Aleksandr Apollonovich Alenitsyn (in contemporary rankings and draws referred to as Alenitsyn I) had a younger brother (Alenitsyn II), who was named Aleksei (Алексей Аполлонович Аленицын) who had the same address before the war and continued playing for Petrograd after the death of his older brother.
1908 - 1922
6
25
11
1918 - St. Petersburg championships (Amateur)
1913 - St. Petersburg championships (Amateur)
1911 - St. Petersburg championships (Amateur)
1911 - Moskwa (Amateur)
1910 - St. Petersburg championships (Amateur)
1909 - St. Petersburg championships (Amateur)
Poule
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Boris Zemlyantsev
6-2
6-3
Poule
Alexander V. Pravdin 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-0
8-6
Round 1
Heinrich Kleinschroth 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-4
6-4
6-2
Final
Laurence Parbury 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-1
6-0
6-0
Round 1
Max Decugis 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
2-6
6-1
6-1
6-4
Final
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Vadim Iznar
3-6
8-6
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Ludwig von Salm 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-2
7-5
6-0
Semifinals
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Final
Pavel Feliksovich Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-0
4-6
6-4
6-2
Final
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Laurence Parbury
6-3
6-3
6-1
Final
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Walter George (Vladimir) Bray
6-4
6-2
6-3
Final
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
3-6
6-0
6-1
Final
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-0
6-2
Round 2
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
W. Gladky
6-1
7-5
6-3
Quarterfinals
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Vsevold Alekseyevich Verbitsky
6-1
6-2
6-0
Semifinals
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Laurence Parbury
5-7
6-1
7-5
6-3
Final
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-4
3-6
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Sergei Lvovich (Serge) Raffalovich
8-6
6-1
Quarterfinals
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-4
6-2
Final
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
Walter George (Vladimir) Bray
6-2
4-6
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
George Vassilievich Bray 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-1
6-0
6-3
Final
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn) 1 *
R. Lepach
6-2
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Walter George (Vladimir) Bray 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
8-6
ret.
Semifinals
George Vassilievich Bray 1 *
Aleksandr Appolonovich Alenitsin (Alenitsyn)
6-1
6-0