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Geza Eros is a male former international table tennis and tennis player from Romania and later Hungary. [1]
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Geza Eros is a male former international table tennis and tennis player from Romania and later Hungary. [1]
He won a bronze medal at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships in the mixed doubles with Angelica Rozeanu. [2] [3]
He was also a notable tennis player active between 1947 and 1958. He competed at the Wimbledon Championships in 1947 [4] and 1948. [5] He won singles titles at the West Sussex Championships in 1947 and the Scottish Championships in 1948. [6] Additionally he was also a finalist at the Paignton Open. [7] He played his final singles tournament at the Hungarian International Championships in Budapest in 1958. [8]
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