Edda Buding, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edda Buding

West German tennis player

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1936

Place of Birth: Lovrin, Timiș County, Romania

Date of Death: 15-Jul-2014

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Edda Buding (13 November 1936 – 15 July 2014) was a German tennis player of Romanian birth.
She received the doubles gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics doubles demonstration event partnered with Helga Niessen Masthoff.
Along with Yola Ramírez Ochoa, she was the runner-up in the 1961 U.S.
Championships women's doubles event and with Robert Howe was the runner-up in mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1961.
She was the sister of Ingo Buding, a two-time junior singles champion at the French Championships, and Ilse Buding.
She won the 1961 U.S.
Women's Clay Court Championships singles title after a three-sets victory in the final against Karen Hantze. In 1964 she received the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany.Buding died in 2014 in Aalen, Germany.