Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling
German-Danish tennis player · Germany · On the map · Tennis Players · Lived 1908 to 1981 · aged 72
Hildegard Krahwinkel Sperling was a German-Danish tennis player. She won three consecutive singles titles at the French Championships from 1935 to 1937. Krahwinkel Sperling is generally regarded as the second-greatest female German tennis player in history, behind Steffi Graf.
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Sperling played a counterpunching game, predicated on speed, and wore down opponents. Helen Jacobs once wrote that Sperling was the third-best player she ever played, behind Helen Wills Moody and Suzanne Lenglen.