Wimbledon Men's Final 2012 - Murray vs Federer

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The last person to lose a mens Wimbledon Final to a Brit......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_von_Cramm

Despite his enormous popularity with the public, on 5 March 1938, von Cramm was arrested by the German government and tried for homosexuality.[SUP][4][/SUP] After being hospitalized for a nervous collapse after his arrest, he was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment[SUP][5][/SUP] on 14 March for his relationship with Manasse Herbst, a young Galician Jewish actor and singer, who had appeared in the 1926 silent film Der Sohn des Hannibal. Von Cramm admitted that the relationship, which lasted from 1931 until 1934, began shortly before he married his first wife. He was additionally charged with sending money to Herbst, who moved toPalestine in 1936. According to a 15 May 1938 report about the trial in the New York Times, the judge stated that "Baron von Cramm had alleged that his wife, during their honeymoon, had become intimate with a French athlete. The court held that this experience had unsettled the young tennis star and had resulted in his seeking a perverse compensation for an unhappy married life.
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