Adam Baworowski was the son of Count Rudolf Baworow-Baworowski and Austrian Countess Maria Chorinsky von Ledske, the former who was the Chamberlain of Franz Joseph I of Austria and had estates in Lviv and where Adam often spent his childhood years.
18 Facts About Adam Baworowski
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Adam Baworowski had three brothers and three sisters, Emil, Stefan, Rudolf, Matylda, Marya and Franciszka.
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Adam Baworowski went to school in Vienna and as the family spoke German at home Adam was alienated from his Polish roots in the beginning.
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Adam Baworowski started playing tennis at a very early age and started taking coaching lessons from the Van Dyckow brothers.
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Adam Baworowski attended the tennis club at the Prater where he had a chance to meet Georg von Metaxa, his later Davis Cup teammate and friend.
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Adam Baworowski played again in the Cup in 1936 along with Georg von Metaxa and reached the semifinals of the European zone.
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Adam Baworowski won the Austrian Championships in the same year.
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Adam Baworowski twice won the International Polish Championship of Warsaw in the doubles partnering Pat Hughes in 1933 and Hans Redl in 1937.
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Adam Baworowski was twice finalist in Budapest in 1935 and 1937.
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Adam Baworowski took the doubles title with von Metaxa defeating Daniel Prenn and Vladimir Landau.
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At the French Championships, Adam Baworowski reached the fourth round in 1937 and 1938.
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Adam Baworowski's statements were widely covered in the Western media.
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Adam Baworowski joined the Legia Warsaw and on 3 May 1938 he participated in a friendly match between Poland and Germany, and a few days later played in a match in a Legia Warsaw-Stockholm meeting.
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At the outbreak of World War II, after returning from Monaco with a silver medal of the 1939 International University Games Adam Baworowski was residing in Paris where his family lived.
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Adam Baworowski was practising in the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club of Berlin.
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Adam Baworowski further represented Germany in the Danube Cup, which was a wartime substitute for the Central European Cup.
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Adam Baworowski served as a Hauptmann during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Adam Baworowski was hit by the Soviets in the beginning of 1943 and died in agony without receiving any medical help.