Wilhelm Bungert

Wilhelm Bungert

Wilhelm Bungert 1965

Nation:

Germany

Birthday:

April 1, 1939

Size:

188 cm

Resignation:

1972

Playing hand:

Right, one-handed backhand

singles

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	VF (1962)
French Open	4R (1962)
Wimbledon	F (1967)
US Open	4R (1966)

Double

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	2R (1962)
French Open	F (1962)
Wimbledon	VF (1964)
US Open	-

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	HF (1962)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	VF (1963)
US Open	-

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Wilhelm Bungert (born April 1, 1939 in Mannheim ) is a former German tennis player .

Bungert started playing tennis at MTG Mannheim at the age of six and soon after switched to Grün-Weiss Mannheim . At the age of 15 he became the Badischer Meister and at the age of 17 he was appointed to the German Davis Cup team . In 1963 and 1964 he was in the semi-finals at Wimbledon, and in 1962 in the quarter-finals of the Australian International Tennis Championships . In doubles he played the final in the same year at the International French Tennis Championships and the International Tennis Tournament in Monte Carlo . After Gottfried von Cramm, Bungert was the second German player to make it to the Wimbledon final. There he was defeated in 1967 by the Australian John Newcombe . However, he played at a time in Wimbledon when the strongest players in the world were not allowed to participate, as they were excluded from amateur tournaments such as the Grand Slam tournaments as professionals. In 1970 he was together with Christian Kuhnke with the German team in the final of the Davis Cup, which was lost 5-0 to the USA .

In the eighties Bungert was the captain of the German team around Boris Becker and Michael Westphal , which was again in the final and lost to Sweden 2: 3. He was later replaced as captain by Nikola Pilić .

Today the former architecture student , self-employed businessman and speaker for top tennis in the German Tennis Federation Wilhelm Bungert runs a tennis center in Hilden .

Individual evidence

↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Bungert, Wilhelm, p. 64 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Bungert, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim , Germany

[1] Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Bungert, Wilhelm, p. 64 .