Bodo Nitsche Explained

Bodo Nitsche
Birth Date:24 August 1938
Birth Place:Beuthen, Germany
Death Place:Stuttgart, West Germany
Plays:Right-handed
Usopenresult:3R (1962)
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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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Davis Team Picked . . 21 April 1959.
  2. Web site: TEC Waldau Stuttgart trauert um Bodo Nitsche . www.tecwaldau.de . German . 1 March 2017.
  3. News: Senior Siblings . . 4 June 1990.