Dragutin Mitić

Dragutin Mitić (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Драгутин Митић, pronounced [draɡǔtin mǐːtitɕ];[2][3] 16 September 1917 – 27 August 1986) was a tennis player from Yugoslavia.

At eighteen, he competed in Bled and upset Czechoslovak Josef Caska with a 13:11, 6:1 score, and brought home the mixed doubles with Hella Kovač.

[4] Mitić played tennis for Zagreb clubs Akademski teniski klub ATK, between 1935 and 1940,[1][5] Slavija in 1946,[1][5] Dinamo in 1947–48,[1][6] Naprijed in 1949,[1][5] and ZTK in 1951.

[1] Mitić's breakthrough year was in 1938 with back-to-back victories over well-established names such as Czechoslovak Roderich Menzel, French Christian Boussus, and Ignacy Tłoczyński in matches in Alexandria, Cairo, and Beaulieu, respectively.

At the 1938 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles he dropped out of the Australian Mervyn Weston in four sets, then Argentine Alejo Russell in five, and Brazilian Alcides Procopio in three, losing in the fourth round to Max Ellmer.

He booked his first and only Grand Slam title (as it was called in the Open era) in the mixed doubles, where he and Simonne Mathieu rebounded from a one-set disadvantage against Nancye Wynne Bolton and Boussus to achieve their biggest feat.