Arthur Zborzil

Arthur Zborzil ( born July 15, 1885 in Vienna, † October 15, 1937 ) was an Austrian tennis player.

Zborzil stepped Olympic Games 1908 in singles and in doubles. In individual he lost in the first round. In doubles, he was reported together with Felix Pipes and had in the first two rounds of a bye. Only in the quarter-finals for the first time the two had to compete and lost to the later Olympic Second James Parke and Josiah Ritchie from the UK.

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm Zborzil won the first three rounds in singles. In the quarterfinals, he was eliminated by Oscar cruiser. In doubles, he reached the finals with pipes, where the two lost to the South Africans Charles Winslow and Harold Kitson on grass in four sets with 6:4, 1:6, 2:6, 2:6. The silver medal of Pipes and Zborzil is still the only Olympic tennis medal for Austria.

Dr. Arthur Zborzil launched for the Wiener AC and was an active member of the founded in 1902 Austrian Tennis Federation ( OTV ).

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