Ingo Dietmar Buding (9 January 1942 – 10 May 2003) was a

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player. His sisters

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and Ilse were also tennis players. Buding reached the quarterfinals of Roland Garros in 1965 and won the boys' singles title in 1959 and 1960. At the 1968 Olympics exhibition event, he finished in second place to

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, and reached the second round of the main demonstration event.

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* * * 1942 births 2003 deaths French Championships junior (tennis) champions West German male tennis players German male tennis players Tennis players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for West Germany Banat Swabians Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-tennis-bio-stub