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Aleksandar Popović (1920s Tennis Player)
Aleksandar Popović ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Поповић, was a Yugoslav tennis player of Serbian ethnicity. Biography Aleksandar Popović was born in Belgrade. In 1926 he was invited to a non-Davis Cup match against Greece, which Greece won. He became the Yugoslavian national champion in singles in 1927. His final lasted only 24 games, with a final score of 6:2, 6:3, 6:1. Popović was one of the early baseliner players who hit a dozen cross-court shots before converting a point a strategy that suited him well. He was triumphant in the doubles with the same easy manner, which took him only one game more to finish the final (6:2, 6:3, 6:2). Fortunately for Popović, György Dungyersky, the original line-up member for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team in their 1928 Davis Cup first round match against Finland, got sick. As he was a reserve player he stepped in to replace him. Rain was a constant factor during the match and the meeting lasted seven days instead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () has been its colloquial name as early as 1922 due to its origins. "Kraljevina Jugoslavija! Novi naziv naše države. No, mi smo itak med seboj vedno dejali Jugoslavija, četudi je bilo na vseh uradnih listih Kraljevina Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev. In tudi drugi narodi, kakor Nemci in Francozi, so pisali že prej v svojih listih mnogo o Jugoslaviji. 3. oktobra, ko je kralj Aleksander podpisal "Zakon o nazivu in razdelitvi kraljevine na upravna območja", pa je bil naslov kraljevine Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev za vedno izbrisan." (Naš rod ("Our Generation", a monthly Slovene language periodical), Ljubljana 1929/30, št. 1, str. 22, letnik I.) The official name of the state was changed to "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" by King Alexander I of Yugosla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual team sporting competition. It is described by the organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis" and the winners are referred to as the world champions. The competition began in 1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain Davis Cup team, Great Britain and the United States Davis Cup team, United States. By 2023 Davis Cup, 2023 155 nations entered teams into the competition. The most successful country over the history of the competition is the United States (winning 32 titles and finishing as runners-up 29 times). The most recent champions are Italy Davis Cup team, Italy, who beat Netherlands Davis Cup team, Netherlands to win their third title (and second consecutive one) in 2024 Davis Cup, 2024. The wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Dungyersky
György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits (1899–1978), Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy (1867–1933), Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László Almásy * György Apponyi (1808–1899), Hungarian politician * György Gordon Bajnai (born 1968), Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-10) * György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. * György Bárdy (1921–2013), Hungarian film and television actor * György Békésy (1899–1972), Hungarian biophysicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * György Bessenyei (1747–1811), Hungarian playwright and poet * György Bródy (1908–1967), Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion * György Bulányi (1919–2010), Hungarian a Piarist priest, teacher, and leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavia Davis Cup Team
The Yugoslavia men's national tennis team competed from 1927 to 2003 and represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (up to 1929 known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) from 1927 to 1939, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (up to 1963 the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1946 to 1992, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1995 to 2003. It was organised by the Yugoslav Tennis Association. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, separate teams were created for the new nations which split apart from Yugoslavia: * Croatia men's national tennis team (began competing in 1993) * Slovenia men's national tennis team (began competing in 1993) * North Macedonia men's national tennis team (began competing in 1995 as the ''former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'') * Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national tennis team (began competing in 1996) A team representing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia returned to competing again from 1995. From 2003 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland Davis Cup Team ...
The Finland men's national tennis team represents Finland in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Suomen Tennisliitto. History Finland competed in its first Davis Cup in 1928. 1920s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Current team (2025) * Emil Ruusuvuori * Otto Virtanen * Patrik Niklas-Salminen * Eero Vasa * Patrick Kaukovalta All players See also *Davis Cup * Finland Billie Jean King Cup team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Finland Davis Cup Team Davis Cup teams Davis Cup Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franjo Šefer
Franjo Šefer ( ; or ; born 1905 in Vienna) was a Yugoslav tennis player of Austrian-Jewish descent. Early life and family Franjo Šefer was born in 1905 in Vienna to a Jewish family. They moved to Karlovac in 1910, where he made his first steps on the tennis court. Šefer was often trained with another prominent player from Karlovac, Alexander Podvineć. Šefer joined HAŠK, where Krešimir Friedrich and Nikola Antolković played. Tennis career Franjo Šefer played for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team starting in 1928. In 1933 he also became the team captain. Three times in a row he was a champion of Yugoslavia (1929, 1930, 1931). He won seven titles altogether, counting the men's and mixed doubles, and he scored a victory over Franjo Punčec at the international tournament in Bled with 6:4, 6:1. In addition to the many years he spent at the forefront of the rankings, Šefer supplied the Yugoslav national team its first individual victory in the Davis Cup. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Grahn
Arne Wilhelm Grahn (22 January 1902 – 21 November 1989) was a Finnish tennis player. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won more than 40 Finnish championships between 1920 and 1947. Career Grahan played his first tournament in 1923 at the Götheborg Games, the same year won his first singles title at the Finland National Championships an event he would win nine times. he also won the Finland Indoor Championships eight times. He also won the Aix-Les-Bains International in 1926 against Monaco player Rene Gallepe and the St. Raphael International the same year against British player Jack Olmsted. He played the French championships one time at the 1926 French Championships, but lost in the second round to Belgium's Jean Washer. In 1930 he reached the quarter-finals of the Cannes New Courts Club tournament losing to Bill Tilden William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Grotenfeld
Bo or BO may refer to Arts and entertainment *Box office, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives *'' BA:BO'', 2008 South Korean film * ''Bo'' (film), a Belgian film starring Ella-June Henrard and directed by Hans Herbots * Bo (instrument), a Chinese cymbal * Bo, a Greek rapper *'' Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus'', a platform game *'' Call of Duty: Black Ops'', a first-person shooter video game *'' Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain'', first in the ''Legacy of Kain'' video game series People *Bo (given name), name origin, plus a list of people and fictional characters with the name or nickname *Bo (surname), name origin, plus a list of people with the surname **Bo (Chinese surname), Chinese family names **Bő (genus), Hungarian medieval noble clan *Bø (other), which includes several people with the surname *Bo people (China), a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China *Bo people of Laos, see List of ethnic gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Podvineć
Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander, Oleksandr, Oleksander, Aleksandr, and Alekzandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexsander, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa, Aleksandre, Alejandro, Alessandro, Alasdair, Sasha, Sandy, Sandro, Sikandar, Skander, Sander and Xander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
