Wilhelm P. Bungert

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

30 years after Gottfried von Cramm, he was the second German player to reach the Wimbledon men’s finals, which he lost against the Australian John Newcombe in 1967. In the years 1963 and 1964 he had been semifinalist. In 1962 he lost the quarterfinals of the International Australian Championships. In the same year he also reached the doubles finals of the International French Championships and the International Tennis Tournament of Monte Carlo.

In 1970 he (with Christian Kuhnke) was part of the German Davis Cup team which lost the finals against the U.S. 0:5.

In the eighties Bungert was captain of the German Davis Cup team (Boris Becker and Michael Westphal) which lost the finals against Sweden 2:3. Niki Pilic became his successor as captain.

Today, Wilhelm Bungert owns a tennis and golf centre in Hilden.