Torben Ulrich 90 years of tennis & art

Torben Ulrich 90 years of tennis & art

In 2017 Mats Ögren Wanger (filmmaker and journalist) intervied the danish #tennislegend #TorbenUlrich in San Francisco where Torben nowadays live.

Torben Ulrich comes from a genuine tennis family where father #EinerUlrich was with and initiated the #GregoryCup 1947 team competition with #ColinGregory (former elite player and then chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and #MarcusWallenberg (former elite player and former chairman of KLTK). Torben and his brother Jørgen have participated in numerous Gregory Cup matches over the years. Torben Ulrich has also played both the Stockholm Open and a number of Grand Slam tournaments.

In the film "Torben Ulrich - 90 years of tennis & art" we get an insight into Torben Ulrich's beautiful world where art, music, poetry and tennis are intertwined. The common message is that things are connected and not isolated events. Something he calls us to carry with us on the tennis court for a more genuine experience.

Torben also tells when he played double against the founder of the club, Gustaf V.

Torben had an unusually long tennis career and was a professional player even after 40 years of age. He was famous for moving on the track like a panther. Towards the end of his active career, he also had the chance to play double with a young #BjörnBorg during a Madrid tournament.






Torben Ulrich (born Oct. 4, 1928) has been called one the most colorful and unique voices in Danish culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, stemming from his lifelong activities as poet, musician, radio and newspaper journalist, painter, filmmaker, performer and athlete, all attempting to explore these fields within a transdisciplinary approach. This view has long been grounded in a process-oriented, wide-ranging study of movement in spiritual, philosophical and athletic traditions, accentuating the practical while including the historical aspects of alchemy, dance, yogic studies, Buddhism, Christian and Jewish Kabbalah, Sufism, Taoism, etc.

Torben’s work with ball, rope, racquet, and rice paper has its beginnings in 1971, when the Lions Club of Copenhagen asked a variety of politicians, actors, writers and others to make “a blue elephant” for a charity exhibit to benefit a senior center in Denmark.