Roland Maywald

Roland Maywald (born 1948) is a former German badminton player who won numerous (West) German national and other European titles from the late 1960's to the mid 1980's. Though he won the German national singles title in 1974, Maywald was primarily a doubles specialist. He was particularly successful internationally in men's doubles with Willi Braun, whose fast forecourt racket complemented Maywald's steady all-court play. Braun and Maywald won the biennial European Championships consecutively in 1972 and 1974 [Pat Davis, "The Guinness Book of Badminton" (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 115.] . They were thrice semifinalists at the prestigious All-England Championships (1971,1975 and 1976) ["the all-England", "Badminton USA", May 1971, 14. ] ["Svend Pri wins the all-England title", "World Badminton", May 1975, 2,3.] ["the all-England", "Badminton USA", May 1976, 13.] and won the U.S. Open men's doubles in 1976 ["open championships", "Badminton USA", May 1976, 6.] . Maywald also shared a number of mixed doubles titles in Europe with various partners. In 1975 he reached the final of mixed doubles at the All-England's with Brigitte Steden.

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