Béla_Von_Kehrling
Béla von Kehrling
Hungarian tennis player
Béla von Kehrling (Hungarian: Kehrling Béla [ˈkeːrliŋɡ ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 January 1891 – 26 April 1937) was a Hungarian tennis, table tennis, and football player but eventually a winter sportsman familiar with ice-hockey and occasionally competing in bobsleigh.[8] He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.[9][10]
The native form of this personal name is Kehrling Béla. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
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| Country (sports) | Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1891-01-25)25 January 1891 Szepesszombat, Austria-Hungary (present-day Spišská Sobota as part of Poprad, Slovakia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 April 1937(1937-04-26) (aged 46) Budapest, Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 1910 (amateur tour)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1933[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (1-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Career titles | 312 (1931)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 10 (1929, Bill Tilden)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| French Open | QF (1926, 1929) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | QF (1929) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| WHCC | QF (1913, 1914) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 4R (1924)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| French Open | QF (1926, 1929) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | SF (1925, 1926)[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| WHCC | SF (1914)[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 2R (1912) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wimbledon | QF (1926, 1927) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Kehrling like Fred Perry, he played both tennis and table tennis professionally. In 1926 he played in the first table tennis World Championships final in London with Zoltán Mechlovits in doubles but lost to Roland Jacobi (who won the singles title) and Dániel Pécsi. He was also featured in the Hungarian team that won gold in team competition.[11] Originally he wasn't part of the national team. While the Hungarians unanimously swept all of the medals after Roland Jacobi's singles and doubles success he suddenly been reported of the death of his father thus he decided to travel home. The substitute player was Béla von Kehrling who had to beat Munio Pillinger of Austria to have the team medal as well. He did so and completed the flawless victory for Hungary.[8] In the end he took two medals in the table tennis world championships, one gold and one silver.
In 1924 he won the German Tennis Championships. The following year he was back in the finals but then lost against Otto Froitzheim. The same year he won Hungarian Tennis Championships (which he did 13 times altogether counting only the singles). In July 1933 Von Kehrling won the doubles and mixed doubles title at the Dutch Championships.[12]
Züricher Sport newspaper ranked Kehrling as No. 10 in the European Top 10 rankings in 1931.[13]
In conjunction with his sports activity he was the vice-president of the Hungarian Tennis Association[14] and the editor-in-chief of its official magazine the bimonthly Tennisz és Golf (Tennis and Golf).[2]
Béla Kehrling married Magda Schlauch. She occasionally played tennis as well and wrote articles to the newspaper published by her husband. They had one son named Béla Kehrling, Jr, born in 1917 in Budapest who served as an Ensign in the cavalry brigade of the Hungarian Army in 1944.[15] They had another son named Tamás who was born in 1924 and died in 1999.[16]
Singles titles
| Legend (singles) |
| Grand Slam (0) |
| Consolation tournaments (2) |
| International Championships (13) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| 1. | 1920 | Kassa[17] | N/A |  Kamill Fittler |
N/A |
| 1. | 1923 | Gotheborg Games[b] | Outdoors |  Oscar Kreuzer |
4–6, 6–4, 6–7, 6–4, 6–2 |
| 2. | 1923 | Merano[18] | N/A | Otto Froitzheim |
11–9, 8–6, 6–0 |
| 3. | 1924 | German International Championships | N/A | Louis Maria Heyden |
8–6, 6–1, 9–7 |
| 4. | 1925 | All England Plate[a] | Grass |  Roger George |
6–3, 6–4 |
| 5. | 1925 | Lake Geneva Championships | Clay |  Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten |
6–1, 6–1, 6–2 |
| 6. | 1925 | Swiss International Covered Courts | Wood (i) | Hans Moldenhauer |
6–1, 6–1, 6–2 |
| 7. | 1926 | Monte Carlo Championships | Clay |  Charles Kingsley |
6–4, 6–1, 6–3 |
| 8. | 1926 | Nice[19] | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 9. | 1926 | Beaulieu[19] | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 10. | 1926 | Cannes[20] | N/A | Charles Kingsley |
7–5, 3–6, 6–1, 6–3 |
| 11. | 1927 | Monaco | Clay |  Erik Worm |
walkover |
| 12. | 1931 | Budapest | N/A |  Hyotaro Sato |
6–3, 6–2, 5–7, 6–2 |
| 13. | 1931 | French Riviera Championships | Clay |  George Lyttleton-Rogers |
7–5, 6–2, 6–4 |
| 14. | 1932 | Budapest | N/A | ||
| 15. | 1932 | Italian Riviera Championships | Clay | George Lyttleton-Rogers |
6–3, 6–3, 6–3[2] |
Runner-up
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| 1. | 1924 | Switzerland[21] |  Hendrik Timmer |
3 sets to 2 | |
| 2. | 1925 | Hamburg | Otto Froitzheim |
6–4, 6–1, 4–6, 6–1 | |
| 3. | 1928 | Monaco | clay | Henri Cochet |
3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–3, 6–2 |
| 4. | 1929 | Bordighera | clay |  Giorgio De Stefani |
6–4, 7–5, 6–4 |
| 5. | 1930 | Zagreb | clay | Emmanuel du Plaix |
6–1, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2 |
| 6. | 1930 | Budapest | clay |  Roderich Menzel |
4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–2[22] |
| 7. | 1931 | Bordighera | clay | George Lyttleton-Rogers |
1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 0–6, 6–4 |
| 8. | 1932 | Cannes |  Enrique Maier |
6–4, 7–9, 6–1, 6–4 | |
| 9. | 1933 | Cannes |  Gottfried von Cramm |
8–6, 6–3, 3–6, 8–6 |
- a The All England Plate was a tournament played by the losers of the first two rounds of the Wimbledon Men's Singles tournament.[23]
- b The Göteborg Games were A "mini-Olympics" held for the defeated nations of World War I who were defected from the 1924 Summer Olympics.[24]
Davis Cup
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| Round | Date | Opponents | Final match score | Location | Surface | Match | Opponent | Rubber score |
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| 2R | 16–18 May 1924 | Denmark |
2–3 | Copenhagen | N/A | Singles 2 | Einer Ulrich | 10–8, 6–0, 6–4 (W) |
| Doubles (with Jenő Péteri) | Björn Thalbitzer / Einer Ulrich | 5–7, 5–7, 6–1, 7–5, 5–7(L) | ||||||
| Singles 4 | Axel Petersen | 6–2, 6–4, 6–3 (W) | ||||||
| 1R | 8–10 May 1925 | France |
0–5 | Budapest | clay | Singles 2 | René Lacoste | 3–6, 3–6, 3–6 (L) |
| Doubles (with Aurél Kelemen) | Jean Borotra / René Lacoste | 4–6, 2–6, 10–8, 3–6(L) | ||||||
| Singles 4 | Jean Borotra | 6–8, 6–1, 6–4, 6–2 (W) | ||||||
| 2R | 16–18 May 1926 |  Argentina |
2–3 | Barcelona | clay | Singles 1 | Guillermo Robson | 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 (W) |
| Doubles (with Kálmán Kirchmayer) | Enrique Obarrio / Guillermo Robson | 2–6, 4–6, 3–6(L) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Enrique Obarrio | 6–3, 7–5, 6–4 (W) | ||||||
| 2R | 13–15 May 1927 | Italy |
2–3 | Budapest | N/A | Singles 1 | Umberto De Morpurgo | 7–5, 4–6, 4–6, 7–5, 1–6 (L) |
| Doubles (with Jenő Péteri) | Umberto De Morpurgo / Giorgio De Stefani | 3–6, 5–7, 6–8 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Clemente Serventi | 6–2, 6–1, 6–4 (W) | ||||||
| 1R | 4–6 May 1928 |  Norway |
5–0 | Christiana | N/A | Singles 1 | Rolf Christoffersen | 6–1, 6–3, 6–1 (W) |
| Doubles (with Jenő Péteri) | Rolf Christoffersen / Torleif Torkildsen | 6–2 6–2 4–6 6–0 (W) | ||||||
| Singles 4 | Torleif Torkildsen | 7–5, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1 (W) | ||||||
| 2R | 18–20 May 1928 | Netherlands |
2–3 | Noordwijk | clay | Singles 2 | Arthur Diemer Kool | 7–5, 4–6, 2–6, 6–1, 1–1 Ret. (W) |
| Doubles (with Jenő Péteri) | Hendrik Timmer / Ody Koopman | 6–1, 4–6, 2–6, 5–7 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 4 | Hendrik Timmer | 3–6, 4–6, 3–6 (L) | ||||||
| 1R | 10–12 May 1929 | Norway |
4–1 | Oslo | N/A | Singles 2 | Jack Nielsen | 11–9, 1–6, 6–2, 6–2 (W) |
| Doubles (with Pál Aschner) | Torleif Torkildsen / Jack Nielsen | 6–4, 6–4, 6–1 (W) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Torleif Torkildsen | 6–1, 6–2, 6–1 (W) | ||||||
| 2R | 14–16 May 1929 |  Monaco |
3–2 | Budapest | N/A | Singles 2 | Vladimir Landau | 6–4, 6–4, 6–2 (W) |
| Doubles (with Jenő Péteri) | René Gallepe/Vladimir Landau | 4–6, 6–3, 2–6, 8–10 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 4 | René Gallepe | 6–0, 6–3, 6–1 (W) | ||||||
| QF | 7–9 June 1929 | Netherlands |
3–2 | Budapest | clay | Singles 1 | Arthur Diemer Kool | 6–2, 6–1, 6–2 (W) |
| Doubles (with Imre Takáts) | Hendrik Timmer / Arthur Diemer Kool | 6–1, 2–6, 6–4, 3–6, 2–6 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Hendrik Timmer | 8–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 (W) | ||||||
| SF | 14–16 June 1929 | Great Britain |
2–3 | Budapest | clay | Singles 1 | Colin Gregory | 5–7, 7–5, 5–7, 6–2, 6–3 (W) |
| Doubles (with Pál Aschner) | Colin Gregory / Ian Collins | 2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 3–6 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 4 | Bunny Austin | 3–6, 6–4, 6–2, 6–2 (W) | ||||||
| 1R | 2–4 May 1930 | Japan |
0–4 | Budapest | clay | Singles 1 | Takeichi Harada | 6–2, 3–6, 6–8, 2–6 (L) |
| Doubles (with Pál Aschner) | Tamio Abe / Takeichi Harada | 2–6, 2–6, 6–3, 4–6 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Yoshiro Ota | 4–6, 6–4, 7–5, 6–6 suspended (U) | ||||||
| 1R | 1–3 May 1931 | Italy |
1–4 | Budapest | clay | Singles 2 | Umberto De Morpurgo | 6–3, 6–3, 6–4 (W) |
| Doubles (with Emil Gábori) | Alberto del Bono / Umberto De Morpurgo | 6–8, 6–3, 5–7, 5–7 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Giorgio de Stefani | 2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4, 2–6 (L) | ||||||
| 1R | 3–5 May 1932 |  Finland |
5–0 | Budapest | clay | Singles 1 | Ali Biaudet | 6–1, 6–2, 6–2 (W) |
| Doubles (with Emil Gábori) | Bo Grotenfeld / Ali Biaudet | 6–4, 6–3, 6–3 (W) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Bo Grotenfeld | 6–0, 6–3, 6–4 (W) | ||||||
| 2R | 19–21 May 1932 | Ireland |
1-4 | Dublin | grass | Singles 2 | Edward McGuire | 6–3, 6–2, 6–4 (W) |
| Doubles (with Emil Gábori) | George Lyttleton-Rogers / Edward McGuire | 6–4, 5–7, 4–6, 3–6 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | George Lyttleton-Rogers | 0–6, 3–6, 3–6 (L) | ||||||
| 1R | 5–7 May 1933 | Japan |
0–5 | Budapest | clay | Singles 2 | Ryosuki Nunoi | 6–4, 6–8, 3–6, 1–6 (L) |
| Singles 4 | Jiro Sato | 6–4, 6–8, 3–6, 1–6 (L) | ||||||
| 1R | 28–30 July 1933 |  Belgium |
2–3 | Brussels | Singles 1 | André Lacroix | 1–6, 5–7, 2–6 (L) | |
| Doubles (with Emil Gábori) | André Lacroix / Léopold de Borman | 6–2, 1–6, 5–7, 6–3, 4–6 (L) | ||||||
| Singles 5 | Léopold de Borman | 7–5, 6–3, 6–4 (W) | ||||||
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- World Table Tennis Championships
- 1926 London
- 2nd place doubles (with Zoltán Mechlovits)
- 1st place with the Hungarian team (Dániel Pécsi, Zoltán Mechlovits, Roland Jacobi)
- 1926 London
- International Masters Cup
- 1927 Berlin – 1st place doubles (with Zoltán Mechlovits)
More information Number, Opponent ...
| Number | Opponent | Venue | Attendance | Type | Date | Result | Goals scored |
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| 1. |  Austria |
Budapest | 12.000–16.000 | Friendly match | 4 October 1914 | 2–2[25] | 0 |
| 2. | Austria |
Vienna | N/A | Friendly match | 8 November 1914 | 2–1[26] | 1 |
| 3. | Austria |
Vienna | 1.200 | Friendly match | 3 October 1915 | 4–2[27] | N/A |
| 4. | Austria |
Hütteldorf | 8000 | Friendly match | 7 May 1916 | 1–3[28] | 0 |
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More information Number, Club affiliation ...
| Number | Club affiliation | Opponent | Venue | Type | Date | Result | Goals scored |
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| 1. | BKE | Wiener Eislaufverein |
Vienna | International match | March 1915 | 14–2[29] | several |
| 2. | BKE | Wiener Eislaufverein |
Vienna | International match | December 1915 | 7–3[30] | 2 |
| 3. | BKE | Wiener Eislaufverein |
Budapest | Csáky Challenge Cup | February 1917 | 2–7[31] | 2 |
| 4. | BKE | Leipziger SC |
Budapest | Csáky Challenge Cup | January 1925 | 3–3[32] | 1 |
| 5. | BKE | LTC Prague |
Tátrafüred | Grand Hotel Challenge Cup | January 1928 | 5–2[33] | 0 |
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References
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- Béla Kehrling, ed. (1932). "A jubiláris közgyülés lefolyása" (PDF). Tennisz és Golf. IV (in Hungarian). 3. Budapest, Hungary: Kő-, Könyvnyomda, Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt: 41. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
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