{{Short description|German tennis player (1938–2017)}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Bodo Nitsche | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{FRG}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|08|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Beuthen, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|02|18|1938|08|24|df=yes}} | death_place = Stuttgart, West Germany | height = | plays = Right-handed | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | USOpenresult = 3R (1962) | medaltemplates-expand = yes | medaltemplates = {{medalCompetition|Universiade}} {{MedalGold|1963 Porto Alegre|Men's singles}} {{MedalGold|1963 Porto Alegre|Men's doubles}} }} '''Bodo Nitsche''' (24 August 1938 – 18 February 2017) was a German tennis player.
Raised in Stuttgart, Nitsche played Bundesliga tennis for TEC Waldau. He was a member of the West German Davis Cup squad and reached the third round of the 1962 U.S. National Championships, losing to the top seed Rod Laver.<ref>{{cite news |title=Davis Team Picked |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/568514465 |work=The Spokesman-Review |date=21 April 1959}}</ref> In 1963 he won the singles gold medal at the World University Games in Porto Alegre.<ref name="TEC">{{cite web |title=TEC Waldau Stuttgart trauert um Bodo Nitsche |url=http://www.tecwaldau.de/news-detail/255.html |website=www.tecwaldau.de |language=German |date=1 March 2017}}</ref>
Nitsche worked as an engineer for Mercedes-Benz outside of tennis and had three children with wife Ingrid.<ref name="TEC"/> His younger brother Detlev was a top collegiate player in the U.S. and played in the Wimbledon junior tournament.<ref>{{cite news |title=Senior Siblings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/811096801 |work=Anderson Independent-Mail |date=4 June 1990}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ATP|n377}} * {{ITF profile|bodo-nitsche/800175025/ger}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nitsche, Bodo}} Category:1938 births Category:2017 deaths Category:West German male tennis players Category:German male tennis players Category:FISU World University Games gold medalists for West Germany Category:Summer World University Games medalists in tennis Category:Medalists at the 1963 Summer Universiade Category:Tennis players from Stuttgart Category:20th-century German sportsmen