Maximilian Ellmer
Full name: Maximilian S. Ellmer
Nickname: Max
Nickname: Max
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| Bio | He was a Swiss tennis player in the years before and after World War 2. Ellmer was a baseline player with great precision, with a powerful backhand and good footwork. His weak points were the service, the smash and the volley. At the age of 14, he won a first tournament in Cannes where his parents ran a hotel. He played Davis Cup for Switzerland from 1933 to 1937. He won the Swiss Championships four times in singles (1932, 1934, 1935 and 1936) and 5 times in doubles (1933-37). He won the Wiesbaden tournament (1934), Lugano (1934), Cannes (1935), Zurich (1935), Bremen (1936), Kulm (1938). He reached several finals in Cannes (1933 - 2), in Nice (1933 - 2), in St Moritz (1934), in Cannes (1934- 2), in Monte-Carlo (1934), in Nice (1934), in Cannes (1935 - 2), in Nice (1935), in St Moritz (1935), in Cannes (1936 -2), in Cannes (1937), in Genève (1935), in Gstaad (1937), in Nice (1938), in Athens (1938). At the German internationals in Bremen which he won in 1936, he saved 3 match points in the quarter-finals, including one on an ace which was extremely rare at home. He played at the French Championships and Wimbledon in a Grand Slam singles career that spanned the years 1930 to 1949. At the French Championships in 1934, Ellmer beat the 13th seed Wilmer Hines and won a set from eventual winner Gottfried von Cramm in losing in the fourth round. At Wimbledon in 1938, Ellmer beat 6th seed Dragutin Mitić in five sets before losing in straight sets to Bunny Austin in the quarter finals. At the end of 1938, he stopped the competition and left for India with the Yugoslavian Franjo Kukuljevic to become a playing partner of the Maharaja of Mawanagar, he remained in his service until 1949. Meanwhile, Ellmer beat former champion Jack Crawford in round one of the Wimbledon men's singles in 1947 before losing in the second round. Upon his return in the 1950s he coached the Swiss Davis Cup team 6 times. He changed clubs from TC Geneva to Montchoisi TC in Lausanne and became secretary from 1964 to 1979. A tournament has born its name in Montchoisi since 2001: the Max Ellmer Doubles Championship. |
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