György Dungyersky
| Country (sports) |
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
|
|---|---|
| Born | 1902 Srbobran, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1983 (aged 80–81) Futog, Yugoslavia |
| Turned pro | 1924 (amateur tour) |
| Retired | 1928 |
| Singles | |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | 3R (1926) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (1926) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 1R (1924) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | 2REu (1927) |
György Dungyersky (Serbian: Đorđe Dunđerski, Ђорђе Дунђерски, pronounced [dʑɔ̌ːrdʑɛ duːndʑerskiː]; Hungarian: Dungyersky György, pronounced [ˈdunɟɛrski ˈɟørɟ]; born 1902 in Srbobran; died 1983 in Futog) was a Yugoslav tennis player of Serbian ethnicity. He was the first to play for the Yugoslavian team at the International Lawn Tennis Challenge, and later the Davis Cup in 1927. He was also the first and only Yugoslavian tennis Olympian until the reinstatement of tennis to the Olympic programme in 1988. Apart from that he was a three-time Swiss champion.
György Dungyersky, better known by the nickname Goga, belonged to the ancient and well-known Serbian family of Dunđerski, the roots of which go far back to Herzegovina from where his ancestors moved to Srbobran in the 17th century, fleeing from the Ottoman occupation. The most prominent members of the Dunđerski family lived in Novi Sad before the First World War, and up to the Second World War occupied important positions in small businesses.
Dungyersky was born in 1902 in Srbobran to his father Jaša and mother Vera, the latter being the daughter of a lawyer in Novi Sad, a town to which they had moved in 1907. The young Dungyersky was well educated and spoke French better than his mother tongue; he spoke Serbian with a French accent. For high school, he attended the in Szeged to learn Latin and Hungarian. To avoid conflicts in the First World War, the family escaped to Geneva where he graduated in 1922. It was in Switzerland where he began playing tennis, becoming a high school champion. The family returned to Novi Sad immediately after the war. Dungyersky embarked on law studies at the University of Zagreb, but left during the second semester to focus on tennis.
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