Ljubomir Czajkowsky

Lubomyr Yosypovych Chaykivsky (; ; 23 May 1918 – 1974) was a Ukrainian, Polish and Austrian tennis player in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He is a first Ukrainian who competed at the Davis Cup, representing Austrian team in 1949. In the same year, he won tennis competitions in Chernivtsi and Stanislaviv, and in 1933 he won the junior championship in Lviv in singles.

In June 1937, he took part in the Polish Tennis Championship in Kraków, reaching the quarterfinals after losing to Warsaw's Czesław Szychala (6:4, 6:2, 6:2), the second round in doubles and the quarterfinals in mixed doubles. In August, at the Polish International Championship in Bydgoszcz, which featured teams from Poland, Austria, Germany and Romania, he defeated Hans Acker in the second round, but reached the quarterfinals, losing to Austrian tennis player Adam Baworowski (6:3, 6:4, 8:6). He also took part in the doubles with Jerzy Gottschalk, where he lost in the semi-finals to the pair of Haendewerk/Lund from Germany with a score of 6:4, 4:6, 4:6, 6:1, 6:4.

At the next Polish Tennis Championship, held on June 13-19, 1938 in Katowice, in the doubles (together with Jerzy Gottschalk) he defeated the Lviv pair Szymanski/Oleynyshyn with a score of 6:1, 6:0, 6:1, but stopped at the semi-final stage, losing to the Krakow-Katowice pair Bratek/Gorjayn with a score of 3:6, 0:6, 6:3, 7:5, 6:1. In the mixed doubles (together with Maria Fryszynówna), the results were worse: in the quarter-finals he lost to the mixed pair Siodowna/Spikhala with a score of 6:4, 6:2. In singles, he again stopped at the 1/4 final stage, losing to his teammate Ignacy Tłoczyński with a score of 6:1, 6:1, 6:4. He also lost to him in the 1/4 final stage at the Polish International Championship in Gdynia in 1939 (6:0, 6:4, 6:2). At those competitions, in doubles (together with Bohdan Tomaszewski) he lost to a Yugoslav pair in the 1/4 final stage (6:3, 3:6, 6:4, 6:2), and in mixed doubles (together with Kindermanovna) to the Polish pair TłoczyńskiJJędrzejowska in the 1/2 final stage.

In late spring 1939, he failed in the quarterfinals of the Polish Tennis Championship held in Poznań, losing to Kazimierz Tarlowski with a score of 2:6, 6:1, 6:2, 6:1. Together with Bohdan Tomaszewski, he reached the semifinals in the doubles, and in the mixed doubles (together with Zofia Jędrzejowska) he also reached the semifinals.

At the tournament in Riga, Lubomyr Chaykivsky encountered Second World War.

Career in the Soviet Union After the beginning of the Soviet occupation of Galicia, he returned to Kolomyia, where he worked in the accounting department of the local railway transport directorate until 1940. Later, he left for Lviv, where he joined the regional voluntary sports society "Dynamo". Lyubomyr Chaykivskyi got into the Ukrainian SSR national tennis team, where he played in competitions against teams from Moscow. Then, Lyubomyr, together with his compatriot Józef Hebda, left no special chances for the tandem of leading Soviet tennis players D. Synyuchkov / Z. Zikmund in the doubles game, thus contributing to the overall victory of the Ukrainians in the match (7:4). Then he became the Ukrainian SSR champion in tennis in doubles, and at the USSR championship he won silver medals in doubles with Hebda. Also, at the USSR Tennis Championships, together with Gorina from Kyiv, he reached the 1/2 finals in mixed doubles.

Lubomyr Chaykivsky held his last competition as a Soviet athlete in the second half of June 1941. In the city on the Neva, he participated in a match against Leningrad tennis players as part of the national team of the republican society "Dynamo". In the final match, slamming the door in farewell, the Ukrainian took his experienced opponent P. Maidansky off the court 6:3, 6:2. In 1948, he won the Austrian Open Kitzbühel, and the following year, he was a finalist in the tournament, losing to German Willy Stingl (6:1, 6:2, 6:3).

On May 6–8, 1949, he took part in the 1949 Davis Cup, where in the second round he lost to Dragutin Mitić with a score of 2:6, 2:6, 2:6 and to Milan Branović with a score of 4:6, 3:6, 4:6 in singles. The Austrian team eventually lost to the Yugoslavia with a score of 1:4. In the same year, he took part in the BMW Open tournament, losing in the quarterfinals to Gottfried von Krym. At the end of the tournament he became the seventh seed in Austria.

In August 1951, he won the international tennis tournament of the Linz Figure Skating and Tennis Club in singles. He also took part in the tournament between the national teams of Austria and Yugoslavia, where he lost to the Yugoslavs in both singles and doubles with a score of 0:2.

He played in various tennis competitions until 1957.

Later life and death Chaykivsky's playing career ended with an injury when he fell on his racket and broke a rib. However, he did not leave tennis after that, but gave lessons as an instructor. Lubomyr Chaykivsky died in Munich from pneumonia in 1974.