Edda Buding (13 November 1936 – 15 July 2014) was a German

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player of

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n birth. She received the doubles gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics doubles demonstration event partnered with

Helga Niessen Masthoff Helga Niessen Masthoff (née Niessen; born 11 November 1941) is a retired tennis player from West Germany. Her best Grand Slam singles tournament was when she reached the 1970 French Open final, losing to Margaret Court in straight sets. She w ...

. Along with Yola Ramírez Ochoa, she was the runner-up in the 1961 U.S. Championships women's doubles event and with Robert Howe was the runner-up in

mixed doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...

Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ...

in 1961. She was the sister of

Ingo Buding Ingo Dietmar Buding (9 January 1942 – 13 March 2003) was a West German tennis player. His sisters Edda "Edda" (; Old Norse ''Edda'', plural ''Eddur'') is an Old Norse term that has been attributed by modern scholars to the collective of two ...

, a two-time junior singles champion at the

French Championships The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...

, and

Ilse Buding Ilse Buding (born 22 November 1939) is a German former tennis player of Romanian birth who was active from the mid-1950s until 1970. Buding began playing tennis at age 11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the family had moved to after World War ...

. She won the 1961

U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships The U.S. Open Clay Courts, known formally as the U.S. Clay Court Championships, was a national tennis championship for women that was sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association. The first edition was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1912, ...

singles title after a three-sets victory in the final against

Karen Hantze Karen Susman (née Hantze; born December 11, 1942) is a retired female tennis player from the United States. She won the 1962 women's singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Věra Pužejová Suková in the final 6–4, 6–4, but did not defend h ...

. In 1964 she received the

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and ...

(Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany. Buding is the first opponent to play Chris Evert at the U.S. Open. Evert won their 1971 match 6–1, 6–0. Buding died in 2014 in

Aalen Aalen () is a former Free Imperial City located in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, about east of Stuttgart and north of Ulm. It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district and is its largest town. It is also the large ...

, Germany.Deutsches Tennis trauert um Edda Buding
/ref>

Major career finals

Grand Slam mixed doubles (2 runner-ups)

Grand Slam doubles (1 runner-up)

Other doubles titles

Fed Cup final

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Buding, Edda 1936 births Romanian people of German descent Olympic tennis players of West Germany Tennis players at the 1968 Summer Olympics West German female tennis players People from Timiș County 2014 deaths Tennis players at the 1955 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Argentina