Adam Baworowski
Baworowski (center), during a reception for the 1939 Davis Cup match between Poland and China
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| Country (sports) |
 Austria (1918–38) Poland (1938–41) Germany (1941–43) |
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| Born | 9 August 1913 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1943 (aged 29–30) Stalingrad, USSR |
| Turned pro | 1929 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1941 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | 4R (1937, 1938) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (1933, 1936, 1939) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| French Open | SF (1939) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (1936, 1939) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| French Open | 2R (1937) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (1936, 1939) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | SFEu (1936) |
Adam Baworowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam bavɔˈrɔfskʲi]; born 9 August 1913 in Vienna – 1943 in Stalingrad) was an Austrian-Polish tennis player.
Count Adam Baworowski descended from the Polish noble family Baworowski. He was the son of Count Rudolf Baworowski and Austrian Countess Maria Chorynsky the former who was the Chamberlain of Franz Joseph I of Austria and had estates in Lviv and where Adam often spent his childhood years. He had three brothers and three sisters, Emil, Stefan, Rudolf, Matylda, Marya and Franciszka. He went to school in Vienna and as the family spoke German at home Adam was alienated from his Polish roots in the beginning.
He started playing tennis at a very early age and started taking coaching lessons from the Van Dycków brothers. He attended the tennis club at the Prater where he had a chance to meet Georg von Metaxa, his later Davis Cup teammate and friend. In 1927 he had a victory over Henner Henkel at the Youth Games. In 1929 at the age of 13 he already defeated then-Polish champion Maximilian Stolarow. In 1931, he won the Austrian junior tennis championships as well as the international junior championships of Berlin in singles and doubles. He was ranked tenth on the Austrian rankings. The next year he was classified fifth. While in 1934 he climbed to number four on the same list. In 1935 he won the national singles and doubles championships and drew attention with back to back straight victories against famed players Franz Wilhelm Matejka and Hermann Artens to be crowned champion. Subsequently, he rose to the second place after Matejka. Later he became member of the Wiener Park Club.
He was first drafted into the Austrian Davis Cup troupe in 1933 only for the doubles rubber teaming with Herbert Kinzl with whom he reached the doubles finals of the Sheffield tournament later that year. He played again in the Cup in 1936 along with Georg von Metaxa and reached the semifinals of the European zone. He won the Austrian Championships in the same year. He twice won the International Polish Championship of Warsaw in the doubles partnering Pat Hughes in 1933 and Hans Redl in 1937. He was twice finalist in Budapest in 1935 and 1937. In 1937 he still held the second spot on the Austrian rankings next to von Metaxa.
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