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

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

player. Raised in

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, Nitsche played Bundesliga tennis for TEC Waldau. He was a member of the West German

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squad and reached the third round of the 1962 U.S. National Championships, losing to the top seed

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. In 1963 he won the singles gold medal at the

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in Porto Alegre. Nitsche worked as an engineer for

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outside of tennis and had three children with wife Ingrid. His younger brother Detlev was a top collegiate player in the U.S. and played in the Wimbledon junior tournament.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nitsche, Bodo 1938 births 2017 deaths West German male tennis players German male tennis players FISU World University Games gold medalists for West Germany Summer World University Games medalists in tennis Medalists at the 1963 Summer Universiade Tennis players from Stuttgart 20th-century German sportsmen