Roelof van Lennep

Roelof van Lennep
Country (sports) Netherlands
Born (1876-10-03)3 October 1876
Wiesbaden, German Empire
Died 13 September 1951(1951-09-13) (aged 74)
The Hague, Netherlands

Jonkheer Roelof van Lennep (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrulɔfɑn ˈlɛnɛp];[1] 3 October 1876 – 13 September 1951) was a Dutch male tennis player. He competed for the Netherlands in the tennis event at the 1908 Summer Olympics where he took part in the men's singles and men's doubles competitions (partnering with his brother Christiaan).[2]

Tennis family and career

Roelof was born on 3 October 1876 to Christiaan van Lennep and his second wife Charlotta Louise Küpfer. [3] Roelof had six siblings, and a half-sister, including Madzy, Christine, August Willem and Christiaan van Lennep, all of whom later got involved in tennis .[4] [3] In 1895 he and his family founded the Hilversumsche Lawn Tennisclub in their own house. [5] Some years after they established three cement courts.[4] His sister Christine was appointed the club's treasurer. [5] His brother August Willem won the national championships in 1903 but died young, in the age of only 24, in 1908 in London. [6][7] His sister Madzy won the ladies' doubles three consecutive times (1889–1901) and the mixed two consecutive time (1899–1900, partnering Karel Beukema) both streaks started from the inaugural championships.[8][9] His brother Christiaan was the most successful amongst them winning the singles on six occasions,[6] the doubles seven times (1904,[10] 1905, 1907,[11] 1908, 1912,[12] 1916, 1923[13])

His breakthrough came when in 1904 he won a triple crown at the Haarlem International Championships (partnering Emilie Dolleman and J. F. Sol). [14] In the same month he reached the finals of the Dutch International Championships in Scheveningen with his brother Christiaan but fell to Wylie Cameron Grant and Irving Wright. [15] On top of that he became the triple crown national champion of the Netherlands after he copied his brother, August's singles feat from last year then claimed the doubles with Christiaan and finished the day with the mixed title partnering Louise Dolleman.[10] Next year he was able to defend his doubles titles only losing the singles to Christiaan.

In 1909 he won the mixed national championships after a three-year hiatus partnering Loes Everts.[16] In 1910 he regained his national doubles title alongside Gerard Scheurleer.[17] In 1911 he booked his last national title in the doubles teaming up with Adolf Broese van Groenou. [12]

Personal life

Roelof was a soccer supporter as well and was the founding member of the Hilversumsche Footballclub 'T Gooi in 1889, first football club in Hilversum. [18] He was also the director of the Tarakan Petroleum and the Kali Tello coffee estate in Jakarta at the Dutch East Indies during the 1930s. [19][20][21] He married twice and had three children, Sylvia, Warner and Marnix Roelof.[22]

Ancestry

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Footnotes

Works cited

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  • "Coffee crisis. NI government may help planters". The Straits Times. Singapore, Straits Settlements: Straits Times Press: 11. 26 March 1936. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  • "Another Scheme". The Straits Times. Singapore, Straits Settlements: Straits Times Press: 18. 3 November 1931. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  • Lievense-Pelser, E. (2013). "Archief van de Familie Van Lennep en Aanverwante Families" [Archives of the Van Lennep Family and Related Families] (PDF). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam City Archives.
  • Angel, Willem Ireneo; van der Schuyt, Bram (2005). De bewoners van de 's-Gravelandseweg te Hilversum: ruim twee eeuwen dorpsgeschiedenis [The inhabitants of 's-Gravelandseweg in Hilversum :more than two centuries of village history] (PDF). Hilversum, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Verloren. ISBN 9789065508324.
  • Alexander Heldring, ed. (22 August 1904). "Lawn-tennis" (PDF). Algemeen Handelsblad (in Dutch). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Daniel Johannes von Balluseck. 77 (24, 174): 2. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  • Paret, Jahial Parmly (1905). H. P. Burchell, ed. Spalding's Official Lawn Tennis annual. New York City, United States: American Sports Publishing Company.
  • "Nationale kampioenen sinds 1899" [National champions since 1899]. knltb.nl. Royal Dutch Lawn Tennis Association. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  • Alexander Heldring, ed. (10 January 1908). "Obituary" (PDF). Algemeen Handelsblad (in Dutch). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Daniel Johannes von Balluseck. 81 (25, 400): 3. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  • "De lawn tennis kampioenschappen te Leiden" [Tennis Championships of Leiden]. Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands: B.W. Menkhorst (13, 619): 3. 18 July 1904. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • "Lawntennis". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands: B.W. Menkhorst (12, 395): 2. 23 July 1900. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • "Lawntennis". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands: B.W. Menkhorst (16, 072): 2. 15 July 1900. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • "Lawntennis". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands: B.W. Menkhorst (15, 172): 2. 9 August 1909. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • "Leiden, 23 July". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands: B.W. Menkhorst (12, 395): 3. 23 July 1900. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • "Lawn-Tennis" (PDF). De Revie der Sporten (in Dutch). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Schwartz & Co. 1 (6): 174. 10 August 1907. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • "Nationale Tennis Kampioenschappen" [National Tennis Championships]. Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands: B.W. Menkhorst (19, 440): 5. 23 July 1923. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • "Lawn-tennis". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands: B.W. Menkhorst (15, 504): 6. 7 September 1910. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  • Wallis Myers, Arthur (1903). Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad. New York City, United States: Scribner's sons.
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