Top 9 German tennis players of all time

#7 Hilde Krahwinkel

Hilde Krahwinkel and Cilly Aussem

Hilde Krahwinkel was the first German tennis athlete to win a hat-trick of Grand Slams. She achieved this feat by winning three consecutive French Open Championships between 1935 to 1937 inclusive.

Krahwinkel is regarded as the second greatest German female tennis player after the legendary Steffi Graf, who obviously needs no introduction. Having achieved the World No. 1 ranking in 1936, Krahwinkel made the Wimbledon finals that year and finished as the runner-up to Helen Wills Moody.

Playing with her mixed doubles partner, fellow German Gottfried von Cramm, she won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1933 - the first ever instance of an all-German pair winning a doubles or mixed doubles Grand Slam.

Krahwinkel was inducted into the International tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.