German National Indoor Championships (tennis)

German National Indoor Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Tour	ILTF World Circuit (1961–72) ILTF Independent Tour (1973–75)
Founded	1961 (1961)
Abolished	1996 (1996)
Location	Various
Venue	Various
Surface	Wood (indoors) Carpet (indoors)

The German National Indoor Championships also called the German Closed Indoor Championships was a men's and women's closed indoor tennis tournament founded in 1961 as the West German National Indoor Championships or West German Closed Indoor Championships. The tournament was organised by the German Tennis Federation and was played on indoor wood courts, then later carpet courts at various locations in Germany until 1996

The championships were part ILTF European Circuit a sub circuit of the ILTF World Circuit until 1972 it then became part of the ILTF Independent Tour from 1973 until it was discontinued.

History

In 1897 an unofficial German National Outdoor Championships (German players only) were established. In 1902 following the creation the German Lawn Tennis Association they became official. Following World War II when Germany was divided into East and West this tournament was then re branded as the West German National Outdoor Championships for West Germany and the East German National Outdoor Championships for East Germany.

In 1961 the West German National Indoor Championships were established. The first championships were played in Dortmund, and the first winners of the singles events were Peter Scholl (men's), and Edda Buding (women's). The championships were not held in 1964 and 1968. In 1990 following the reunification of Germany both the east and west events were merged into a single German Closed Indoor Championships, with the same for the outdoor championships. In 1980 two editions of tournament was held this year the first in January, and the second in December due to the German Tennis Federation moving the event till the latter date and continued to stage them at the end of the year. In 1996 six years after unification both the German Closed Outdoor Championships and German Closed Indoor Championships ended and were merged into a single German National Championships to be played either indoors or outdoors.

Finals

Notes: In 1980 the championships had up to that point been held in either January or February, the scheduled was changed to now stage them in December (*) denotes January edition (**) denotes December edition. Official sources list only the winners of this event where a runner up is not shown or the score sections have been blanked.

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Location	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1961	Dortmund	Peter Scholl	Wolfgang Stuck	11–9, 6–1, 6–3.
1962	Dortmund	Adolf Kreinberg	Wolfgang Stuck	4–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–4.
1963	Dortmund	Wolfgang Stuck	Peter Scholl	6–1, 6–3, 6–2.
↓  Open era  ↓
1969	Hanover	Hans-Jürgen Pohmann	Jürgen Fassbender	3–6, 8–6, 5–7, 7–5, 6–2.
1970	Hanover	Uwe Gottschalk	Karl Meiler	6–4, 6–4, 6–0.
1971	Hanover	Karl Meiler	Jürgen Fassbender	6–2, 7–5, 9–7.
1972	Hanover	Jürgen Fassbender	Hans-Jürgen Pohmann	6–2, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4.
1973	Hanover	Frank Gebert	Attila Korpás	w.o.
1976	Hamburg	Werner Zirngibl	Jürgen Fassbender	6–7, 6–4, 6–7, 7–5 6–3.
1977	Hamburg	Ulrich Marten	Klaus Eberhard	6–4, 6–7, 6–3, 0–6, 6–0.
1978	Hamburg	Ulrich Pinner	Peter Elter	7–6, 6–3, 6–2.
1979	Hamburg	Ulrich Marten (2)	Klaus Eberhard	6–7, 6–2, 7–5, 4–6, 7–5.
1980 *	Hamburg	Ulrich Marten (3)	Werner Zirngibl	3–6, 7–6, 6–3, 6–2.
1980 **	Hamburg	Klaus Eberhard	Reinhart Probst	6–4, 6–3, 6–0.
1981	Hamburg	Karl Meiler (2)	Frank Gebert	7–6, 6–2.
1982	Neumünster	Hans-Dieter Beutel	Wolfgang Popp	6–7, 6–3, 6–2.
1983	Landshut	Wolfgang Popp	Karl Meiler	7–6, 6–2, 4–6, 4–6, 7–6
1984	Mainz	Peter Pfannkoch
1985	Mainz	Eric Jelen
1986	Mainz	Patrik Kühnen
1987	Mainz	Eric Jelen (2)
1988	Mainz	Markus Zoecke
1990	Mainz	Michael Stich
1992	Bremen	Alexander Mronz
1996	Mainz	Nicolas Kiefer
For the successor event see German National Championships

Women's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Location	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1961	Dortmund	Edda Buding	Brigitte Forstendorf	6–3, 6–2
1962	Dortmund	Edda Buding (2)
1963	Dortmund	Almut Sturm
↓  Open era  ↓
1969	Hanover	Heide Orth
1970	Hanover	Edith Winkens	Kerstin Seelbach	6–4, 6–2
1971	Hanover	Heide Orth (2)
1972	Hanover	Heide Orth (3)
1973	Hanover	Heide Orth (4)
1976	Hamburg	Helga Masthoff
1977	Hamburg	Heidi Eisterlehner
1978	Hamburg	Sylvia Hanika
1979	Hamburg	Katja Ebbinghaus
1980 *	Hamburg	Eva Pfaff
1980 **	Hamburg	Heidi Eisterlehner (2)
1981	Neumünster	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
1982	Landshut	Eva Pfaff (2)
1983	Mainz	Eva Pfaff (3)
1984	Mainz	Steffi Graf	Isabel Cueto	6–2, 6–0
1985	Mainz	Steffi Graf (2)
1986	Mainz	Steffi Graf (3)
1987	Mainz	Christina Singer	Silke Meier	4–6, 7–6, 6–4
1988	Mainz	Steffi Menning
1990	Mainz	Claudia Porwik
1992	Bremen	Claudia Porwik (2)
1996	Mainz	Christina Singer (3)
For the successor event see German National Championships