General Friedrich
Frenz
Male
Germany
1901-02-19
Rostock, Germany
1958-01-00
Hamburg, West-Germany


About

Friedrich Frenz was a tall man with a great talent who never achieved the success which could have been expected from a man of his abilities.Although he had a magnifecent service and very good groundstrokes,he was not able to adapt his game in critical situations and sometimes lost control of his talent which resulted in overpowering his strokes,especially his volleys.Despite these deficiencies he was able to beat more highly rated players like Bunny Austin,J.C.Gregory,G.P.Hughes or Roderich Menzel on a good day.He once had a set point against Big Bill Tilden during an exhibition match in Cologne in 1929 and won a set against Gerald Patterson.
Frenz was chosen twice to represent Germany in the Davis Cup in 1933 playing one singles against Ireland and 2 singles against Denmark at the side of Gottfried von Cramm.He was listed in the National Rankings from 1925 to 1938.His best years were 1928:5,1929:6,1930:4,1932:6,1933:2,1934:5 and 1935:8.He obtained 10 German
Tennis Championships during his career:the National Singles title in 1928 and 1929,the International Covered Court Doubles 1930 (with Dr.W.Dessart),the National TeamChampionship 1931,1933 (both with Rot-Weiss Berlin) and 1935 (with the combined team of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein),the National Senior Singles 1948 and 1950 and the National Senior Doubles in 1950 and 1951.
His greatest success on the international scene was reaching the 4th Round at Wimbledon in 1928. His biggest achievements on the national level were doubtless the German National Singles Championship in 1928 and 1929.
Almost during his whole career he represented the THC Klipper Hamburg except in the years 1931 to 1933 when he wore the colours of LTTC Rot-Weiss Berin.
In his life outside tennis he was a bank employee.In 1949 he was forced to leave his home town Rostock to evade communist rule and had to restart his life in Hamburg.

The facts for this biography are taken from DTZ and the tennis manuals 1927-1939.



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Archive statistics 1924 - 1951
30
247
154


Tournament wins 1939 - Mecklenburg Championships (Amateur)
1937 - Championships of Warnemünde (Amateur)
1936 - Weisser Hirsch Championships (Amateur)
1935 - Hamburg Closed Championships (Amateur)
1935 - Weisser Hirsch Championships (Amateur)
1935 - Championships of Hamburg (Amateur)
1934 - Heiligendammer Cup (Amateur)
1934 - Championships of Stettin (Amateur)
1934 - Championships of Warnemünde (Amateur)
1933 - Schwerin (Amateur)
1933 - Championships of Saxony (Amateur)
1933 - Heiligendammer Cup (Amateur)
1932 - Bad Eilsen (Amateur)
1932 - Championships of Eastern Prussia (Amateur)
1931 - Schwerin (Amateur)
1931 - Bad Eilsen (Amateur)
1931 - German International Covered Courts Consolation (Amateur)
1930 - Heiligendammer Cup (Amateur)
1930 - Weisser Hirsch Championships (Amateur)
1929 - German National Championships (Amateur)
1929 - Weisser Hirsch Championships (Amateur)
1928 - Championships of Hamburg (Amateur)
1928 - German National Championships (Amateur)
1927 - Travemünde International (Amateur)
1926 - Blau-Weiss Club (Amateur)
1926 - Neustrelitz (Amateur)
1926 - Lübeck (Amateur)
1926 - Championships of Bremen (Amateur)
1925 - Championships of Hamburg (Amateur)
1924 - Schwerin (Amateur)


Tournaments Cuxhaven Spa - 1951 Lübeck - 1950 Grossflottbek - 1949 German International Championships - 1939 Championships of Hamburg - 1939 Travemünde International - 1939 Hamburg Closed Championships - 1939 Championships of Warnemünde - 1939 Mecklenburg Championships - 1939 Championships of Saxony - 1938 Championships of Hamburg - 1937 Heiligendammer Cup - 1937 Championships of Saxony - 1937 Hamburg Closed Championships - 1937 Aachen International - 1937 Championships of Warnemünde - 1937 Schwerin - 1937 Championships of Hamburg - 1936 Heiligendammer Cup - 1936 Championships of Saxony - 1936 Championships of Stettin - 1936 Hamburg Closed Championships - 1936 Aachen International - 1936 Weisser Hirsch Championships - 1936 Championships of Warnemünde - 1936 Schwerin - 1936 German International Championships - 1935 Championships of Hamburg - 1935 German National Championships - 1935 Championships of Saxony - 1935 Blau-Weiss Club - 1935 Hamburg Closed Championships - 1935 Elbe Cup - 1935 Weisser Hirsch Championships - 1935 Championships of Warnemünde - 1935 Schwerin - 1935 German International Championships - 1934 Championships of Berlin - 1934 Wiesbaden Championships - 1934 German National Championships - 1934 Heiligendammer Cup - 1934 Championships of Saxony - 1934 Championships of Stettin - 1934 Hamburg Closed Championships - 1934 Elbe Cup - 1934 Weisser Hirsch Championships - 1934 Championships of Warnemünde - 1934 Cottbus - 1934 German International Championships - 1933 Championships of Berlin - 1933 German National Championships - 1933 Heiligendammer Cup - 1933 Championships of Saxony - 1933 International Championshps of the Ruhr-Area - 1933 Blau-Weiss Club - 1933 Championships of Bad Pyrmont - 1933 Schwerin - 1933 Sports Festival of the German East - 1933 Austrian International Championships - 1932 Championships of Berlin - 1932 German National Championships - 1932 Heiligendammer Cup - 1932 Championships of Saxony - 1932 Championships of Eastern Prussia - 1932 Bad Eilsen - 1932 Otto-Relly-Memorial-Trophy - 1932 German International Covered Court Championships - 1931 German International Championships - 1931 Championships of Berlin - 1931 Heiligendammer Cup - 1931 Championships of Saxony - 1931 Gelb-Weiss T.C. International Championships - 1931 Sopot - 1931 Bad Eilsen - 1931 Championships of Warnemünde - 1931 German International Covered Courts Consolation - 1931 Schwerin - 1931 German International Covered Court Championships - 1930 German International Championships - 1930 Championships of Berlin - 1930 Championships of Merano - 1930 Heiligendammer Cup - 1930 Weisser Hirsch Championships - 1930 Berliner Schlittschuh-Club - 1930 Wimbledon - 1929 German International Covered Court Championships - 1929 German International Championships - 1929 Championships of Berlin - 1929 Hungarian International Championships - 1929 Championships of Hamburg - 1929 Wiesbaden Championships - 1929 German National Championships - 1929 Heiligendammer Cup - 1929 Championships of Saxony - 1929 Weisser Hirsch Championships - 1929 Wimbledon - 1928 German International Championships - 1928 Championships of Berlin - 1928 Championships of Hamburg - 1928 German National Championships - 1928 Championships of Saxony - 1928 R.C. Canottieri Roma - 1928 German International Championships - 1927 Championships of Berlin - 1927 Championships of Hamburg - 1927 Travemünde International - 1927 German International Championships - 1926 Championships of Hamburg - 1926 German National Championships - 1926 Championships of Bremen - 1926 Blau-Weiss Club - 1926 Harvestehude - 1926 Hamburg Closed Championships - 1926 Blumenau - 1926 Championships of Berlin Consolation - 1926 Prussian Championships - 1925 Championships of Hamburg - 1925 Heiligendammer Cup - 1925 Championships of Warnemünde - 1925 German International Championships - 1924 Championships of Hamburg - 1924 Schwerin - 1924

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