Approximately 5 million of the 17 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds of the population older than 15 years participates in sports weekly.
Hendrik ("Henk") Timmer was a Dutch sportsman, who primarily played tennis. Born in Utrecht, Timmer also won golf tournaments, became Dutch squash champion, played badminton and hockey. He died aged 94 in Bilthoven, four days before his former doubles partner Kea Bouman. Apart from being a Dutch tennis champion, he was Swiss, Welsh and Scottish indoors champion as well.
Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge "Algy" Kingscote was a British tennis player, who won the Men's Singles event at the Australasian Championships in 1919. Kingscote also competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He was born in Bangalore, India, in 1888.
The Netherlands Davis Cup team represents the Netherlands in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Royal Dutch Lawn Tennis Association.
Daniel Prenn was a Russian Empire-born German, Polish, and British tennis player who was Jewish. He was ranked the world No. 6 for 1932 by A. Wallis Myers, and the European No. 1 by "American Lawn Tennis" magazine. He was ranked world No. 8 in 1929, world No. 7 in 1934, and was ranked No. 1 in Germany for the four years from 1928 to 1932. He was a runner-up for the mixed doubles title of Wimbledon in 1930. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they barred him from playing because he was Jewish. He emigrated from Germany to England, and later became a successful businessman.
Franjo Punčec was a Yugoslav tennis player. He played for the Yugoslavian team at the International Lawn Tennis Challenge from 1933 to 1946.
Richèl Hogenkamp is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 94, which she reached on 24 July 2017. On the ITF Circuit, she has won 16 singles and 14 doubles titles.
Béla von Kehrling was a Hungarian tennis, table tennis, and football player but eventually a winter sportsman familiar with ice-hockey and occasionally competing in bobsleigh. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.
The Bonaire Lawn Tennis Association ,abbreviated BLTB, is the governing body of tennis in Bonaire. Before Bonaire became a special municipality of the Netherlands after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, it was represented by the Netherlands Antilles Tennis Federation. In 2011, it decided to file for membership of the International Tennis Federation rather than to be part of the Royal Dutch Lawn Tennis Association of the Netherlands. Membership was approved in 2011 at the Annual General Meeting in Bangkok together with the Curaçao Lawn Tennis Association.
The Netherlands Antilles Tennis Federation was the governing body of tennis in the Netherlands Antilles. It was responsible for the Netherlands Antilles Davis Cup team. After the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, it represented three newly formed association in 2011:
Astrid Suurbeek is a former Dutch tennis player who was mainly active in the late 1960s.
Kho Sin-Khie was an Indonesian-born tennis player who represented the Republic of China in the Davis Cup. He was from the Peranakan Chinese ethnic group. He was the first Chinese player ever to win a major international tournament. He was a two time winner of the British Hard Court Championships, and the Surrey Grass Court Championships on one occasion. He also won the Swiss International Championships (1939), Italian and Swedish champion as well.
Albertus Christiaan "Hans" van Swol was a Dutch tennis player. He was five-fold Dutch singles champion. He reached the fourth round at Wimbledon on five different occasions but never made it to the quarter finals stage. He reached the third round of the French Championships at Roland-Garros in 1937.
Johan Frederik Willem "Jan" van der Heide (1908–1959) was a Dutch tennis player. He was the fifth-ranked Dutch player in 1928, third in 1930 and second in 1932. He was a one-time national singles, doubles and mixed doubles champion.
Gertruida Johanna "Trudy" Groenman is a Dutch former tennis player. She was three times Netherlands champion.
The year 1930 in tennis was a complex mixture of mainly amateur tournaments composed of international, invitational, national, exhibition, team events and joined by a marginal Pro Tour encompassing only British, German, French and American Pro events.
Jonkheer Roelof van Lennep 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.
The Royal Belgian Tennis Federation is an organisation set up in 1902 that formally takes charge of tennis in Belgium. From 1979 on, most tasks are executed by the tennis branches of the Flemish and Francophone Communities. The Belgian Federation is one of the 15 inaugural members of the International Tennis Federation. Its headquarters are located in the Brussels Capital Region, in the municipality of Ixelles.
Nanette Schutte is a Dutch former professional tennis player who was active during the 1980s.
