Background
Jenő Zsigmondy was born in 1889, son of lawyer and Aulic Councillor Jenő Zsigmondy senior
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Jeno Zsigmondy
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He was defeated by Curt Brandis in the Hungarian Athletics Club international tournament. That year he also clinched the Hungarian Athletics Club international championships as well. In the 1914 World Hard Court Championships in Saint Cloud in June he teamed up with Béla von Kehrling and reached the semifinals only losing to Arthur Gore and Algernon Kingscote of Great Britain in straight sets.
The same month he lost again to Kehrling in the Hungarian Lawn Tennis National Championships.
As a result of his fading health he had to give up tennis and started to pursue amateur golf. In handicap contest (against bogey) he was defeated by G. Hänel.
In the Grave-yard handicap he finished first with a score of (17) 19 greenen. In September in the international golf challenge between Hungary and Germany Zsigmondy lost both of his matches in singles and mixed doubles.
On the 7th of the same month he traveled to Vienna for the International Country Club of Lainz, but fell in the qualification rounds.
In October he reached the quarterfinal of the Hungarian International Golf Championships. Handicap contest he finished sixth on both events. Foreign the Zichy travelling trophy in mid-October he earned a shared second place in Bogey handicap.
Achievements
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The national champion in 1907, 1910 and 1911, he competed for Hungary at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. In 1907 he won the Hungarian Tennis Championships singles trophy for the first time. In 1909 he won the Hungarian Tennis Championships mixed doubles contest partnering Katalin Cséry, an achievement they repeated five more times afterwards. In 1910 he became the national champion in singles for the second time. In 1912 he won the Tátralomnic championship. In 1913 Zsigmondy fell short to Béla von Kehrling for claiming his fourth national title although they won the doubles contest together. In 3–7 June 1929 Zsigmondy won a couple of titles in the Wiener Golf-Club championships, including the mixed doubles alongside Mistress Pollack von Parnau. In 1935 there was a Zsigmondy Jenő memorial golf contest, won by István von Rakovszky.
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Membership
He was a member of Budapesti Lawn Tennis Club. A member of the famous Zsigmondy family and Matild Bartolovics. His father was also a member of the Hungarian Parliament between 1927–1932.
