Rolf Göpfert

{{Short description|German former tennis player}}

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Rolf Göpfert (born 16 February 1916) is a German former tennis player.

A member of Berlin's Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, Göpfert was a German indoor singles champion and had two stints in the national Davis Cup team, the first in 1938 and 1939.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243458434 |title=Germany Farsighted In Goepfert's Trip |newspaper=The Herald |date=3 August 1938 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}} He featured in the Davis Cup again from 1951 to 1953, during this time partnering Gottfried von Cramm in doubles.{{cite news |title=Jochen Grosse und die ersten Dosenbälle |url=https://www.mainpost.de/sport/wuerzburg/jochen-grosse-und-die-ersten-dosenbaelle-art-5819116 |work=Main-Post |date=10 November 2010 |language=de}}

Göpfert twice reached the singles third round of the Wimbledon Championships.{{cite web |title=Rolf Goepfert |url=https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/player_profile/40b3bbdc-6713-471e-a2fc-e2e11915512f.html |website=wimbledon.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119024906/https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/player_profile/40b3bbdc-6713-471e-a2fc-e2e11915512f.html |archive-date=19 January 2023}}

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