Ludwig Salm-Hoogstraeten
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| Full name | Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria von Salm Hoogstraeten |
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| Country (sports) | Austria |
| Born |
24 February 1885 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, German Empire |
| Died | 23 July 1944 (aged 59) Budapest, Hungary |
| Turned pro | 1910 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1932 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | 3R (1926) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (1913) |
| US Open | 1R (1907) |
| French Open Senior | F (1931) |
| Other tournaments | |
| WHCC | F (1914) |
| Olympic Games | QF (1912) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 1R (1913, 1929, 1930) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 3R (1913) |
| Other mixed doubles tournaments | |
| WHCC | F (1914) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | QF (1925Eu) |
Count Ludwig "Ludi" von Salm-Hoogstraeten (German pronunciation: [ˈluːdvɪç fɔn sɑlm ɦoːxˈtʁeːtən]; Hungarian: Salm Lajos; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsɒlm ˈlɒjoʃ]) (24 February 1885 – 23 July 1944) was an Austrian tennis player. He competed in the men's outdoor singles event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He reached the quarterfinal in which he lost to South African Harold Kitson in straight sets.
Von Salm-Hoogstraeten played in six ties for the Austrian Davis Cup team between 1924 and 1928 and compiled a record of four wins and eight losses.
Count Salm was born 24 February 1885 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe to Count Alfred von Salm-Hoogstraeten, a Prussian Cavalry officer in the Franco-Prussian War, and Baroness Adolphine von Erlanger. He had three brothers, Alfred, Otto and Alexander. The latter two were also tennis players and formed a doubles team, were Austrian champions and competed in the 1914 US Indoor Championships. His family held an estate at Reichenau, and as the oldest child he was the first in line to inherit it.
Ludwig von Salm was particularly successful in doubles competitions. His pre-World War I career included a mixed final in the Les Avants tournament with Miss Turner, which he lost to Eric Pockley and Miss Brook-Smith. In April 1911 he won the San Remo doubles together with Anthony Wilding after defeating the German duo of Curt Bergmann and Friedrich Rahe. The same month they split for the Croquet et Lawn-Tennis Club de Cannes championships, Wilding played with A. Wallis Myers, Salm chose Robert Kleinschroth, and the four of them met in the semifinal, which was won by Wilding and Myers. In 1912 he was a singles runner-up for the Biarritz Golf Club tournament, losing to Rahe; however, he was still successful in doubles, winning the inaugural Russian Championships doubles pairing with home favorite Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston. In 1913 he was a doubles semifinalist in the Monaco tournament with French netman Max Decugis but ceded the victory to Kleinschroth and Rahe in a straight two-set match. In 1914, pairing again with Wilding, they clinched the Cannes doubles title by beating Decugis and Gordon Lowe. At Nice Wilding and Craig Biddle defeated Salm and Gordon Lowe. The same year he was the finalist for the World Hard Court Championships mixed doubles and the French Championships doubles. In the former with Suzanne Lenglen he was routed by Elizabeth Ryan and Max Decugis. In the latter he and William Laurentz fell in the Challenge round to title defenders Max Decugis and Maurice Germot.
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