Tag: Czeslaw Spychala

Tennis Players…War Now And In The Past

Post author By Vanessa Taylor
Post date 11 March 2022

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has become a practitioner of Spanish philosopher George Santayana’s maxim – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. On February 24^th he launched a “Special Operation” in Ukraine purportedly to protect people … continue reading

Tags Andrey Rublev, Czeslaw Spychala, Daniil Medvedev, Dayana Yastremska, Elina Svitolina, Gottfried von Cramm, Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, Ukraine war, Victoria Azarenka

History

The Untold Story…Tennis Players At War – Part 2

Post author By Vanessa Taylor
Post date 10 March 2022

Before the world fully realized the level of inhumanity the swastika flag of the German Reich would come to represent, it was displayed in tournament results, next to the names of Henner Henkel and Gottfried von Cramm.

Between 1936 and … continue reading

Tags Bernard Destremau, Czeslaw Spychala, Daniel Prenn, Einer Ulrich, Gottfried von Cramm, Henner Henkel, Ignacy Tloczynski, Jean Borotra, King Gustaf V, Robert Abdesselam