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Anika Rieper. Cäcilia Edith Aussem, called Cilly, was the first German to win the Tennis Singles at Wimbledon. She played another German, Hilde Krahwinkel, in the final in 1931 and beat her 6-2, 7-5. The next German woman to win the Wimbledon Singles was Steffi Graf in 1988, and then Angelique Kerber in 2018. Cilly Aussem, 1927. Steffi Graf, 2009.
Aussem, Cilly (1909–1963)Tennis star of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and only German to hold a Wimbledon title before 1985, who briefly represented hope of a better future for Germans during their severe economic crisis after World War I. Name variations: Cilly, Cäcilie. Born Cäcilie Aussem inCologne, Germany, on January 4, 1909; died in ...
- Early Years
- Bill Tilden's Advice
- Breakthrough
- First German Wimbledon Champion
- Trip to South America, Illness and Nazi Party Membership
- Private Life After Tennis
- Further Reading
Aussem was born in Cologne on 4 January 1909, the daughter of a wealthy salesman Johann Joseph 'Jean' Aussem and Ulrike Franziska 'Helen' Wisbaum. At the age of 14, she returned to Cologne after spending several years in Geneva getting a boarding school education. It was at this time that she started taking tennis lessons at the local club KTHC Sta...
Aussem won the German Championships for the first time in 1927 when she was 18 years old. In Hamburg, she defeated reigning champion Ilse Friedleben in the final in straight sets.Aussem, who was described as a graceful, small, and psychologically sensitive girl, seemed incapable of withstanding the mental and physical pressures of competitive sport...
In 1928, Aussem's mother claimed that Paula von Reznicek had twice beaten her daughter by using hypnotism, which led to a lawsuit in which Von Reznicek filed charges of defamation of character, and Aussem's mother charged her with "insulting assault". She lost her German Championships singles title in 1928 after a three-set defeat in the final to D...
1931 was Aussem's most successful year. She won the French Championships, defeating Betty Nuthall of the United Kingdom, and the German Championships after a win in the final against Irmgard Rost. Aussem also won the Wimbledon singles championship, defeating her compatriot Hilde Krahwinkel in the final in straight sets. She became the first German ...
All seemed to be prepared for a great international career when something happened that stopped Aussem's rapid rise. Celebrating the successful year of 1931, Aussem and her friend and teammate Irmgard Rost traveled to Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Aussem won some tournaments, but caught a serious liver inflammation.Back in Germany, she underwent sur...
During her winter holidays in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1935, Aussem met her Italian Earl Fermo Murari dalla Corte Brà, they married in Munich on 11 March 1936, and the pair moved to Mombasa, Kenya. During her stay, she contracted malaria.Aussem spent the last two decades of her life mainly in her husband's castle in Portofino. In 1963, she underwe...
Bernd Tuchen: Ich galt als Wunderkind ... Cilly Aussem – das Leben der ersten deutschen Wimbledon-Siegerin. Shaker Media, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86858-089-1.
- Cäcilia Edith Aussem
- 1935
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
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