Karl Kammann was one of the best players St. Louis produced in the 1920s. At Washington University he partnered with national star Wray Brown, earning a collegiate doubles ranking of seventh in the nation in 1922. 

In 1923 he won St. Louis District singles and was a finalist at the very first National Public Parks Championship, held at what is now the Dwight Davis Tennis Center. 

Then came 1924. At the U.S. Men's National Clay Court Championships, Kammann and Brown pushed Bill Tilden and his partner to five sets. Tennis writers called it the best tennis of the season. 

He went on to partner with Charles Barnes, representing the Missouri Valley section on the national tour in 1928. They held the number one doubles ranking in St. Louis as late as 1935. Globe-Democrat tennis writer Martin Telle reported that record keepers at every level, local, sectional, and national, believed Kammann and Barnes to be the longest-running doubles partnership in the country. 

(2000)