Our History
There is evidence that tennis has been played in Hartberg since 1914. The first official tennis club was founded in 1934. On 29 April 1946, TSV Hartberg was founded with tennis as a separate section and tennis has been run as a separate club since 2000.
Club chairmen/Section leaders
1934 - 1939 Dr. Hans Tollich
1946 - 1953 Adolf Premsberger
1953 - 1956 DDr. Mag. Friedrich Ranftl
1956 - 1957 Dr. Herbert Poleschinski
1957 - 1961 Univ.Prof. DI Dr. Erwin Niesslein
1961 - 1966 Dir. Karl Probst
1966 - 1973 Dir. Hermann Klapf sen.
1973 - 1987 HR DI Bruno Saurer
1987 - 1991 Heinz Huber
1991 - 1995 Dir. Peter Bredt
1995 - 1999 Ing. Roland Sommer
1999 - 2000 Ing. Hans Zollner
2000 - 2007 Dir. Peter Bredt
2007 - 2011 Gerd Ertl
2011 - ......... Mag. Michael Steiner
2025
The TSV men's team defends the Styrian winter championship title in 2024/25. The women's team once again finish as runners-up.
From the left: Altmann, Kainz, Göbern-dorfer, Huszar, Steiner, Reitgruber, Dovnik, K. Oswald and Knittelfelder
2024
The ladies with Katharina Oswald, Julia Bastova, Tanja Reitgruber, Nicol Benesova and Sabrina Oswald manage to stay in the 2nd Bundesliga.
2024
Unfortunately, the men's team was relegated from the 1st Bundesliga in its second year. A few lost Champions Tiebreaks were responsible for this.
From the left: Kavcic, Kaufmann, Steiner, Kovacs, Pichler; front: Bellotti, Huszar
2024
The TSV men's team with Kaufmann, Huszar, Steiner, Altmann and Petz won the Styrian indoor championship title in 2023/24, while the women's team with S. Oswald, Bastova, Reitgruber, Bengi, Mia and Kim Klapf and E Totova finished as runners-up.
2023
Hans-Peter Kaufmann, who plays for TSV Hartberg, wins the state championship runner-up title indoors. He narrowly loses to Filip Misolic in 3 sets in the final.
2023
Peter Fuchs, one of the best tennis players and sportsmen from Hartberg, is leaving TSV forever. He was national senior champion in all age groups, world and European champion in various senior teams and won countless tournaments. He will be remembered forever as a figurehead, idol and role model.
2023
The all-weather courts with the FORCE II system were completed in autumn 2023 and opened as part of the annual Business Cup.
2023
For the first time in their history, the TSV men manage to stay in the 1st Tennis Bundesliga.
From the left: Pansy, Pichler, Steiner, Kaufmann, Bende, Hubich, Bellotti
front: Kovacs and Huszar
2023
After promotion to the Landesliga A, the TSV women become Styrian champions straight away and are promoted to the second national league as a result. At the final in Bruck: M. Gross, S. Oswald, S. Bengi, K. Klapf, T. Reitgruber, E. Tothova, J. Bastova
2022
After the women's and men's II teams are also promoted to the Landesliga A, there is a big championship celebration at Schloss Hartberg.
2022
Hartberg's men become champions of the 2nd Bundesliga and are sensationally promoted back to the highest Austrian league after exactly 40 years.
Picture: Hubich, Steiner, Lustig, Kaufmann, Bellotti, Pansy, Kovacs
2021
3rd place again in the second Bundesliga.
At the back: Dubrivnyy, Steiner, Bellotti, Pansy
front: Kovacs, Hubich
2020
The men's team with Kovacs, Sekac, Pansy, Altmann, Hubich and Steiner finishes 3rd in the second national league.
2019
Hartberg's men finish as runners-up in the Styrian championship and are promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga once again.
TSV plays the season with Pansy, Kovacs, Hubich, Steiner, Altmann, Pickl and Bende.
2018
TSV brings the Styrian championship title back to Hartberg in the 2017/18 winter championship.
In the final: Golob, Altmann, Steiner, Pickl and Hubich
2017
After relegation from the national league, the men immediately win the Styrian championship title.
BM Martschitsch, Hubich, Altmann, Pansy, Kovacs, Steiner, Pickl, Spiegl, Dr Steiner (STTV), M. Steiner
2016
2nd Bundesliga for one year.
front: Kovacs, Pansy Bende, Hubich
back: Steiner, Tuttner, Altmann, Horansky
2015
The Styrian men's national championship title goes to Hartberg. After decades, the team is promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga.
The team consists of Pansy, Tuttner, Golob, Kovacs, Bende, Steiner, Spiegl, Altmann, Bruthans and Schuh.
2014
TSV Hartberg officially becomes a Styrian youth centre.
2014
Robert Lattinger, Hermann Klapf sen., Peter Fuchs, Roland Zörner, Werner Blödorn, Heinz Huber and Wolfgang Del Negro celebrate 40 years in the national league team.
2013
The Hartberg men become Styrian winter champions.
Pansy, Tuttner, Scherf, Altmann, Maitz, Dr Fiedler
2008
Hartberg is the venue for the Styrian Youth Championships.
2003
The men win the Styrian championship title.
Tuttner, Hierzberger, Zelenay, Markus Lattinger, Schreiner, Schlögl, Huber
2001
Katrin Glatz becomes austrian national champion U 16 in the indoor as a 15-year-old.
2000 - 2001
The TSV ladies play in the national league B for 2 years.
Zelenayova, Jaklin, Spiegl, Amesbauer, Glatz
1999
The ladies become Styrian national champions in 1998 and 1999. With a 6:1 win against Stockerau in the promotion match, the ladies are promoted to the national league for the first time.
1999
TSV men become Styrian champions.
M. Pansy, Gohla, Tuttner, Scherf, Hierzberger, Vorwerk, front: Papp
1998
Katrin Glatz becomes U 12 austrian national indoor champion.
1997
Verena Amesbauer becomes U12 state runner-up in singles and austrian champion in doubles.
1996
Markus Lattinger wins the U12 austrian national title in doubles.
1993 - 1995
Stefan Koubek was able to add his name to the list of winners at the U 16 European Youth Championships. Martina Hingis also played in Hartberg and reached the final as a 12-year-old.
1993 - 1995
In the years 1993 to 1995, the European Youth Championships for the age group up to 16 years were held three times. An additional grandstand was again erected for the numerous spectators
1988
After the men's team was temporarily relegated from the national league, the team won the Styrian championship title in 1987 and was promoted back to the national league B for one year.
Huber, Lattinger, Fuchs, Pansy, Saurer, Schöller, Knill, Haidenbauer, Reisinger
1985
From 2 to 4 August 1985, the Davis Cup match between Austria and Israel was held under the strictest security precautions. There were 3500 spectators on all days of the match. Unfortunately, the match was lost 2:3.
1984
Judith Pölzl, later married to Wiesner, becomes the women's national champion. She beats Petra Huber, then number 39 in the world rankings, in three sets.
1984
At the state championships in Hartberg, 17-year-old Thomas Muster wins in singles and doubles with Alexander Antonitsch.
1984
In September 1984, the Austrian national championships were held in Hartberg. Around 4000 spectators attended the matches that week.
1983
In the course of the promotion of the 1st men's team to the Superliga, the facility was expanded in 1982. A club room, a sun terrace, 3 changing rooms, an office room, new toilet facilities and some cellar rooms were built. A year later, the terrace was extended again and courts 7 and 8 were opened.
1982
After two championship titles in the national league B, the men win promotion in 1981 and are promoted to the highest Austrian league, the so-called Superliga.
Saurer, Fabisch, Khail, P. Fuchs, Slavicek, Westner, A. Fuchs, K. Pansy, B. Saurer, Lattinger
1981
Town hall reception after promotion to the Super League.
1980
After winning the Styrian championship, the men's team is promoted to the national league B. It is sensational that a team consisting exclusively of Hartbergers is playing.
K. Schöller, R. Lattinger, P. Fuchs, P. Westner, K. Pansy, A. Fuchs, captain B. Saurer
1979
The men with Klapf, Del Negro, Pansy, Schöller, Fuchs, Fabisch, Lattinger become Styrian champions
1979
The Hartberg women become Styrian champions in 1978 and 1979. However, they are not promoted to the national league.
Traude Payer, Ilse Knöbl, Luise Haslmayer, Josefine Pansy, Gerti Vanicek
1978
On 16.04.1978, 400 spectators watch a tennis exhibition between the Austrian champion Hans Kary and the American Norman Holmes as part of the supporting programme for the official opening of the new courts.
1978
In 1977 and 1978, court 5 and 6 and a batting wall were built. At the same time, the previously used ‘Klosterplatz’ is abandoned. This means that all club courts are in the ‘Gmoos’.
1978
Austrian Youth State Championships in Hartberg
1974
Opening of the indoor tennis centre in Hartberg. Initially with one court. In 1985, a second court was added to the hall and 4 years later, it was converted from clay to carpet with rubber granules.
1974
Team National League B
P. Westner, W. Blödorn, R. Zörner, H. Klapf, P. Fuchs, W. Del Negro,
H. Huber in the front,
1973
Styrian Youth Championships in Hartberg.
1973
Community reception
1973
Reception of the Styrian champions at BM Lind.
1973
Styrian national champion 1973 and promotion to national league B
1973
Championship in Bad Aussee.
Fuchs, Klapf, Del Negro, Westner, Zörner, Gero Lattinger
front: Robert Lattinger and Huber
1973
HR DI Bruno Sauer takes over the management of the section until 1987.
1971
Under Dir. Hermann Klapf senior, the grounds were extended in 1971 with the construction of court 3 and 4 and the enlargement of the clubhouse.
The picture shows Hermann Klapf in a comparison match with Hansi Hinterseer.
1960-iger Jahre
From 1961 to 1966 Dir. Karl Probst is head of the TSV tennis section. He is also President of the Styrian Tennis Association for 30 years (1945 - 1975).
1950 - 1960
Founding members and team players of the 1950s
1959
Groundsman Anton Fuchs at ‘Kloster Platz’
1959
Tournament at ‘Gruber Platz’
1958
Final result of the Styrian Championship 1958.
TSV Hartberg took part in the Styrian team championship for the first time in 1954. Initially, men and women played together in one team.
1957
Construction of the first two courts next to the current outdoor pool area.
1950
In the 1950s, the courts on the old cemetery grounds fell victim to general building development.
From then on, matches were played on the square by the monastery wall and on the private square on the premises of the Hallermayr company (Gruberplatz); today Spar
Picture spectators at ‘Gruber Platz’
1946
29.04.1946 - Foundation of the non-party-affiliated gymnastics and sports club (TSV) Hartberg with tennis section
1943
This aerial photograph from 1943 shows the ‘Kloster Platz’ and 2 squares on the old cemetery site, approx. next to the present police building, which were built in the early 1930s.
1914
The first documented mention of a tennis court in Hartberg dates back to 1914.
In the book ‘Die Geschichte der Stadt, Pfarre und des Bezirkes Hartberg’ by Johannes Simmler, an attached plan by Gustav Panitschek shows a tennis and children's court for the first time in 1914
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