Franjo Šefer
| Country (sports) |
 Yugoslavia
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|---|---|
| Born | 1905 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | 1R (1931), (1932) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (1931) |
| Doubles | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 1R (1931) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 1R (1931) |
Franjo Šefer (Serbian: Фрањо Шефер, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [fraːɲo ʃêfer]; German: Francis Schaeffer/Franz Schäffer German pronunciation: [ˈfʁant͡s ˈʃɛfər]) (born 1905 in Vienna) was a Yugoslav tennis player of Austrian ethnicity.
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.
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 in Zagreb, the second appearance of the Yugoslav National Team in the Davis Cup against Finland in 1928. Šefer's fourth Davis Cup appearance came in 1930 against Sweden in Belgrade, where he was the real hero of the match, in which he achieved the first Yugoslavian team victory in this competition. He parted ways with the national team in Budapest in the Davis Cup match against Hungary, where he sealed the 3-2 team victory, partnering Punčec and winning the doubles. In coaching, he is credited with discovering Dragutin Mitić, helping him in the early stages and introducing him to the Davis Cup team.
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