Edda Buding (13 November 1936 – 15 July 2014) was a German
tennis
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player of
Romania
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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. Sh ...
. Along with
Yola Ramírez Ochoa, she was the runner-up in the 1961
U.S. Championships women's doubles event and with
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was the runner-up in
mixed doubles at
Wimbledon in 1961. She was the sister of
Ingo Buding, a two-time junior singles champion at the
French Championships, and
Ilse Buding.
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.
In 1964 she received the
Silbernes Lorbeerblatt
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(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 la ...
, Germany.
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Major career finals
Grand Slam mixed doubles (2 runner-ups)
Grand Slam doubles (1 runner-up)
Other doubles titles
Fed Cup final
References
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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