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Bodo Nitsche

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Bodo Nitsche
Country (sports) West Germany
Born(1938-08-24)24 August 1938
Beuthen, Germany
Died18 February 2017(2017-02-18) (aged 78)
Stuttgart, West Germany
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
US Open3R (1962)
Medal record
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1963 Porto Alegre Men's singles
Gold medal – first place 1963 Porto Alegre Men's doubles

Bodo Nitsche (24 August 1938 – 18 February 2017) was a German tennis player.

Raised in Stuttgart, Nitsche played Bundesliga tennis for TEC Waldau. He was a member of the West German Davis Cup squad and reached the third round of the 1962 U.S. National Championships, losing to the top seed Rod Laver.[1] In 1963 he won the singles gold medal at the World University Games in Porto Alegre.[2]

Nitsche worked as an engineer for Mercedes-Benz outside of tennis and had three children with wife Ingrid.[2] His younger brother Detlev was a top collegiate player in the U.S. and played in the Wimbledon junior tournament.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Davis Team Picked". The Spokesman-Review. 21 April 1959.
  2. ^ a b "TEC Waldau Stuttgart trauert um Bodo Nitsche". www.tecwaldau.de (in German). 1 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Senior Siblings". Anderson Independent-Mail. 4 June 1990.
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