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Béla von Kehrling

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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]

Country(sports)Hungary
Born(1891-01-25)25 January 1891
Szepesszombat, Austria-Hungary (present-day Spišská Sobota as part of Poprad, Slovakia)
Died26 April 1937(1937-04-26) (aged 46)
Budapest, Hungary
Turnedpro1910 (amateur tour)[1]
Quick facts Country (sports), Born ...
Béla von Kehrling
Kehrling in 1914
Country (sports)Hungary
Born(1891-01-25)25 January 1891
Szepesszombat, Austria-Hungary (present-day Spišská Sobota as part of Poprad, Slovakia)
Died26 April 1937(1937-04-26) (aged 46)
Budapest, Hungary
Turned pro1910 (amateur tour)[1]
Retired1933[1]
PlaysRight-handed (1-handed backhand)
Singles
Career titles312 (1931)[2]
Highest rankingNo. 10 (1929, Bill Tilden)[3]
Grand Slam singles results
French OpenQF (1926, 1929)
WimbledonQF (1929)
Other tournaments
WHCCQF (1913, 1914)
Olympic Games4R (1924)[4]
Grand Slam doubles results
French OpenQF (1926, 1929)
WimbledonSF (1925, 1926)[5]
Other doubles tournaments
WHCCSF (1914)[6]
Olympic Games2R (1912)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
WimbledonQF (1926, 1927)
Association football career
Position Defender[7]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1910–1911 33 FC
1911–1917 Magyar AC
International career
1914–1916 Hungary 4 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Medal record
Table Tennis
Representing  Hungary
World Table Tennis Championships
Silver medal – second placeLondon 1926Doubles
Gold medal – first placeLondon 1926Team
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Career

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]

Personal life

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]

Tennis career statistics

Singles titles

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Legend (singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Consolation tournaments (2)
International Championships (13)
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No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
1. 1920 Kassa[17] N/A Hungary Kamill Fittler N/A
1. 1923 Gothenburg Games[18] Outdoors Germany Oscar Kreuzer 4–6, 6–4, 6–7, 6–4, 6–2
2. 1923 Merano[19] N/A Germany Otto Froitzheim 11–9, 8–6, 6–0
3. 1924 German International Championships N/A Germany Louis Maria Heyden 8–6, 6–1, 9–7
4. 1925 All England Plate[a] Grass France Roger George 6–3, 6–4
5. 1925 Lake Geneva Championships Clay Austria Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten 6–1, 6–1, 6–2
6. 1925 Swiss International Covered Courts Wood (i) Germany Hans Moldenhauer 6–1, 6–1, 6–2
7. 1926 Monte Carlo Championships Clay United Kingdom Charles Kingsley 6–4, 6–1, 6–3
8. 1926 Nice[20] N/A N/A N/A
9. 1926 Beaulieu[20] N/A N/A N/A
10. 1926 Cannes[21] N/A United Kingdom Charles Kingsley 7–5, 3–6, 6–1, 6–3
11. 1927 Monaco Clay Denmark Erik Worm walkover
12. 1931 Budapest N/A Japan Hyotaro Sato 6–3, 6–2, 5–7, 6–2
13. 1931 French Riviera Championships Clay Republic of Ireland George Lyttleton-Rogers 7–5, 6–2, 6–4
14. 1932 Budapest N/A
15. 1932 Italian Riviera Championships Clay Republic of Ireland George Lyttleton-Rogers 6–3, 6–3, 6–3[2]
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Runner-up

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No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
1. 1924 Switzerland[22] Netherlands Hendrik Timmer 3 sets to 2
2. 1925 Hamburg Germany Otto Froitzheim 6–4, 6–1, 4–6, 6–1
3. 1928 Monaco clay France Henri Cochet 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–3, 6–2
4. 1929 Bordighera clay Italy Giorgio De Stefani 6–4, 7–5, 6–4
5. 1930 Zagreb clay France Emmanuel du Plaix 6–1, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2
6. 1930 Budapest clay Czechoslovakia Roderich Menzel 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–2[23]
7. 1931 Bordighera clay Republic of Ireland George Lyttleton-Rogers 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 0–6, 6–4
8. 1932 Cannes Spain Enrique Maier 6–4, 7–9, 6–1, 6–4
9. 1933 Cannes Weimar Republic Gottfried von Cramm 8–6, 6–3, 3–6, 8–6
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  • a The All England Plate was a tournament played by the losers of the first two rounds of the Wimbledon Men's Singles tournament.[24]

Davis Cup

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Europe Zone
RoundDateOpponentsFinal match scoreLocationSurfaceMatchOpponentRubber score
2R 16–18 May 1924  Denmark 2–3 Copenhagen N/A Singles 2Einer Ulrich10–8, 6–0, 6–4 (W)
Doubles (with Jenő Péteri)Björn Thalbitzer / Einer Ulrich5–7, 5–7, 6–1, 7–5, 5–7(L)
Singles 4Axel Petersen6–2, 6–4, 6–3 (W)
1R 8–10 May 1925  France 0–5 Budapest clay Singles 2René Lacoste3–6, 3–6, 3–6 (L)
Doubles (with Aurél Kelemen)Jean Borotra / René Lacoste4–6, 2–6, 10–8, 3–6(L)
Singles 4Jean Borotra6–8, 6–1, 6–4, 6–2 (W)
2R 16–18 May 1926  Argentina 2–3 Barcelona clay Singles 1Guillermo Robson6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 (W)
Doubles (with Kálmán Kirchmayer)Enrique Obarrio / Guillermo Robson2–6, 4–6, 3–6(L)
Singles 5Enrique Obarrio6–3, 7–5, 6–4 (W)
2R 13–15 May 1927  Italy 2–3 Budapest N/A Singles 1Umberto De Morpurgo7–5, 4–6, 4–6, 7–5, 1–6 (L)
Doubles (with Jenő Péteri)Umberto De Morpurgo / Giorgio De Stefani3–6, 5–7, 6–8 (L)
Singles 5Clemente Serventi6–2, 6–1, 6–4 (W)
1R 4–6 May 1928  Norway 5–0 Christiania N/A Singles 1Rolf Christoffersen6–1, 6–3, 6–1 (W)
Doubles (with Jenő Péteri)Rolf Christoffersen / Torleif Torkildsen6–2 6–2 4–6 6–0 (W)
Singles 4Torleif Torkildsen7–5, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1 (W)
2R 18–20 May 1928  Netherlands 2–3 Noordwijk clay Singles 2Arthur Diemer Kool7–5, 4–6, 2–6, 6–1, 1–1 Ret. (W)
Doubles (with Jenő Péteri)Hendrik Timmer / Ody Koopman6–1, 4–6, 2–6, 5–7 (L)
Singles 4Hendrik Timmer3–6, 4–6, 3–6 (L)
1R 10–12 May 1929  Norway 4–1 Oslo N/A Singles 2Jack Nielsen11–9, 1–6, 6–2, 6–2 (W)
Doubles (with Pál Aschner)Torleif Torkildsen / Jack Nielsen6–4, 6–4, 6–1 (W)
Singles 5Torleif Torkildsen6–1, 6–2, 6–1 (W)
2R 14–16 May 1929  Monaco 3–2 Budapest N/A Singles 2Vladimir Landau6–4, 6–4, 6–2 (W)
Doubles (with Jenő Péteri)René Gallepe/Vladimir Landau4–6, 6–3, 2–6, 8–10 (L)
Singles 4René Gallepe6–0, 6–3, 6–1 (W)
QF 7–9 June 1929  Netherlands 3–2 Budapest clay Singles 1Arthur Diemer Kool6–2, 6–1, 6–2 (W)
Doubles (with Imre Takáts)Hendrik Timmer / Arthur Diemer Kool6–1, 2–6, 6–4, 3–6, 2–6 (L)
Singles 5Hendrik Timmer8–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 (W)
SF 14–16 June 1929  Great Britain 2–3 Budapest clay Singles 1Colin Gregory5–7, 7–5, 5–7, 6–2, 6–3 (W)
Doubles (with Pál Aschner)Colin Gregory / Ian Collins2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 3–6 (L)
Singles 4Bunny Austin3–6, 6–4, 6–2, 6–2 (W)
1R 2–4 May 1930  Japan 0–4 Budapest clay Singles 1Takeichi Harada6–2, 3–6, 6–8, 2–6 (L)
Doubles (with Pál Aschner)Tamio Abe / Takeichi Harada2–6, 2–6, 6–3, 4–6 (L)
Singles 5Yoshiro Ota4–6, 6–4, 7–5, 6–6 suspended (U)
1R 1–3 May 1931  Italy 1–4 Budapest clay Singles 2Umberto De Morpurgo6–3, 6–3, 6–4 (W)
Doubles (with Emil Gábori)Alberto del Bono / Umberto De Morpurgo6–8, 6–3, 5–7, 5–7 (L)
Singles 5Giorgio de Stefani2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4, 2–6 (L)
1R 3–5 May 1932  Finland 5–0 Budapest clay Singles 1Ali Biaudet6–1, 6–2, 6–2 (W)
Doubles (with Emil Gábori)Bo Grotenfeld / Ali Biaudet6–4, 6–3, 6–3 (W)
Singles 5Bo Grotenfeld6–0, 6–3, 6–4 (W)
2R 19–21 May 1932  Ireland 1–4 Dublin grass Singles 2Edward McGuire6–3, 6–2, 6–4 (W)
Doubles (with Emil Gábori)George Lyttleton-Rogers / Edward McGuire6–4, 5–7, 4–6, 3–6 (L)
Singles 5George Lyttleton-Rogers0–6, 3–6, 3–6 (L)
1R 5–7 May 1933  Japan 0–5 Budapest clay Singles 2Ryosuki Nunoi6–4, 6–8, 3–6, 1–6 (L)
Singles 4Jiro Sato6–4, 6–8, 3–6, 1–6 (L)
1R 28–30 July 1933  Belgium 2–3 Brussels Singles 1André Lacroix1–6, 5–7, 2–6 (L)
Doubles (with Emil Gábori)André Lacroix / Léopold de Borman6–2, 1–6, 5–7, 6–3, 4–6 (L)
Singles 5Léopold de Borman7–5, 6–3, 6–4 (W)
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Football career statistics

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Number Opponent Venue Attendance Type Date Result Goals scored
1. Austrian Empire Austria Budapest 12.000–16.000 Friendly match 4 October 1914 2–2[25] 0
2. Austrian Empire Austria Vienna N/A Friendly match 8 November 1914 2–1[26] 1
3. Austrian Empire Austria Vienna 1.200 Friendly match 3 October 1915 4–2[27] N/A
4. Austrian Empire Austria Hütteldorf 8000 Friendly match 7 May 1916 1–3[28] 0
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Ice hockey career statistics

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Number Club affiliation Opponent Venue Type Date Result Goals scored
1. BKE Austrian Empire Wiener Eislaufverein Vienna International match March 1915 14–2[29] several
2. BKE Austrian Empire Wiener Eislaufverein Vienna International match December 1915 7–3[30] 2
3. BKE Austrian Empire Wiener Eislaufverein Budapest Csáky Challenge Cup February 1917 2–7[31] 2
4. BKE Germany Leipziger SC Budapest Csáky Challenge Cup January 1925 3–3[32] 1
5. BKE Czech Republic LTC Prague Tátrafüred Grand Hotel Challenge Cup January 1928 5–2[33] 0
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