Franjo
Schaffer (Schäffer)
Male
Yugoslavia
1905-00-00
Wien (Vienna), Austria
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.[3] Šefer was often trained with another prominent player from Karlovac, Alexander Podvineć. Šefer joined HAŠK, where Krešimir Friedrich and Nikola Antolković played.[2]
Tennis career[edit]
Franjo Šefer played for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team starting in 1928.[2] In 1933 he also became the team captain.[2] 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.[2]
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.[4] 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.[3]
He set to tour India in 1934 and 1935 along with Josip Pallada, Franjo Punčec, and Franjo Kukuljević. In 1935 he won the All-India Lawn Tennis Doubles Championships with Kukuljević,[5] after which he returned to his country to actively play until the beginning of World War II.[2] He won one of his last titles in mixed national doubles in 1939.[3] In the beginning of World War II he emigrated first to the United States and then to Canada, where he died.[3][2] His last known whereabouts were in Montreal in 1980.[3]
1924 - 1958
7
63
27
1932 - Opatija (Amateur)
1931 - Northumberland Championships (Amateur)
1931 - Yugoslavian National Championships (Amateur)
1930 - Romanian International Championship (Open)
1930 - Belgrade (Amateur)
1930 - Yugoslavian National Championships (Amateur)
1929 - Yugoslavian National Championships (Amateur)
Quarterfinals
Wolfram Schneiders 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-1
6-2
Semifinals
Franjo Puncec 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
9-7
9-7
6-2
Round 1
Gottfried von Cramm 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Josip Palada 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-3
7-5
6-0
Semifinals
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Herbert (Harry) Kinzl
6-1
6-3
6-0
Final
Ernest Wittman 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-2
6-4
6-3
Round 1
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Mr. Piffl
6-0
6-2
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Hans Rademacher
6-2
6-4
Round 3
Friedrich Rohrer 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-1
6-3
Round 1
Round 2
Augusto Rado 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
w.o.
Semifinals
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Georgios Nikolaides
3-6
6-1
6-4
6-3
Final
Franjo Puncec 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-4
6-2
9-7
Round 1
Jean Couitéas de Faucamberge 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
w.o.
Round 3
Fritz Neugebauer 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-1
7-5
Round 1
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
André (Adrien) Aron
w.o.
Round 3
Erik Worm 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Camillo Zuccoli
6-0
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Giorgio De Stefani 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-0
6-0
6-0
Round 1
Gottfried von Cramm 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-3
6-4
Semifinals
Franjo Puncec 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
0-6
2-6
6-3
8-6
6-0
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Mr. Barbato
4-6
7-5
6-3
Round 3
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Mr. Vogel
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
Emanuele Sertorio 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
2-6
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Count Laszlo Szapary
4-6
6-2
ret.
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Theo Spira
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Bela Von Kehrling 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
7-5
6-4
Semifinals
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Michael Haberl
6-0
6-4
Final
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Jaromir Blabol
9-7
6-0
6-4
Round 1
John Van Ryn 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-0
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Pierre Henri Goldschmidt 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
w.o.
Round 3
Edmond Édouard Lotan 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
1-6
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Vladimir Landau 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
7-5
6-4
Semifinals
Charles Aeschlimann 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
3-6
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
Emil Gabori 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-2
7-5
7-5
Final
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Franjo Kukuljevic
7-5
9-7
1-6
4-6
6-2
Quarterfinals
Vojtech Vodicka 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-3
2-6
6-2
Quarterfinals
Jiro Satoh 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-0
6-3
Semifinals
Bernard Carter Law 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-2
6-2
Unknown
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Dr Gheorge Luppu
6-0
6-4
Quarterfinals
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Josef Siba
6-4
1-6
2-0
ret.
Semifinals
Bela Von Kehrling 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-2
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Richard Arnold Von Planner
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Adam Baworowski
7-5
6-3
Round 3
Hyotare Satoh 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-8
6-2
6-1
Final
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Franjo Kukuljevic
6-0
4-6
6-8
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Alessandro Fe D´Ostiani
6-2
6-4
Round 3
Ronaldo Boyd 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-4
9-7
Semifinals
Emmanuel Du Plaix 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-3
6-3
ret.
Round 1
Eberhard Nourney 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-3
6-3
8-6
Final
Josef Malecek (Maleček) 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
4-6
6-4
6-0
6-1
Round 2
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco
6-4
1-6
6-4
Quarterfinals
Dr. Walter Buss 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Richard Nedbalek (Nedbálek) 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
w.o.
Semifinals
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Alexandru Botez
5-7
6-3
6-3
6-3
Final
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Ghica Poulieff
2-6
4-6
7-5
6-3
6-0
Final
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Emil Gabori
4
sets
Final
Martin E. Zander 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
7-5
6-3
6-0
Round 1
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Mr. Laczay
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Tibor Krepuska 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-1
3-6
6-1
Round 1
Franjo Schaffer 1 *
Mr. Hartl
7-5
5-7
7-5
Round 2
Dr Waldemar Peter Munk 1 *
Franjo Schaffer
6-1
6-3