The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Serbia
This page contains a list of the greatest Serbian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 1 of which were born in Serbia. This makes Serbia the birth place of the 21st most number of Table Tennis Players behind Nigeria, and Slovakia.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Serbian Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Zoltán Berczik (1937 - 2011)
With an HPI of 55.33, Zoltán Berczik is the most famous Serbian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Zoltán Berczik (7 August 1937 – 11 January 2011) was a Hungarian table tennis player. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two titles at the Table Tennis European Championships. Berczik was born in Novi Sad. He began his career as a defensive player. With the advent of topspin in the late 1950s he turned his game around to attack. He died in Budapest.
2. Gordana Perkučin (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 45.52, Gordana Perkučin is the 2nd most famous Serbian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Gordana Perkučin (born 7 May 1962 in Novi Kneževac) is a Yugoslav and Serbian table tennis player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
3. Ilija Lupulesku (b. 1967)
With an HPI of 43.48, Ilija Lupulesku is the 3rd most famous Serbian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Ilija Lupulesku (Serbian Cyrillic: Илија Лупулеску; Romanian: Ilia Lupulescu; born October 30, 1967) is a former Yugoslavian and later American table tennis player who competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2002 and competed for the United States from 2004 to 2006. Ilija Lupulesku played his first game of table tennis at age nine in his small hometown of Uzdin, Yugoslavia. After seeing other children playing at his local school, he picked up a paddle and began what would become his life's ambition. Despite his love and talent for soccer, Lupulesku, under the watchful eye of first coach Jon Bosika, committed himself to training and by age 14 was the top player on the Yugoslavian Junior National Table Tennis Team.
4. Tamara Boroš (b. 1977)
With an HPI of 42.44, Tamara Boroš is the 4th most famous Serbian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Tamara Boroš (born 19 December 1977) is a Croatian table tennis player. She is one of the relatively rare European players in modern times who has successfully competed at the highest level with players from Asian countries. Boroš was born in a Hungarian family in Senta. As a junior, she played for the local table tennis club STK Senta. After the outbreak of Yugoslav Wars in 1991, she stayed in Sweden, finally settling in Zagreb, Croatia (with her parents) in 1993. Neven Cegnar became her new coach. In 2002, Boroš reached a career-high world ranking at No. 2. She won the bronze medal at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships. She is one of only two non-Asian players to have won a women's singles medal at World Championships over the last 50 years (from 1977 to 2026). She has won 12 medals at European Table Tennis Championships. In 1998, she won silver, while in 2000, 2002, and 2005 she won bronze medals in women's singles. She is a three-time European Champion in women's doubles (2002, 2003, and 2005). With the Croatian national team, she has won silver medals in 2003 and 2005, and bronze in 2000, 2008, and 2009. At the Mediterranean Games, she has won gold medals in 2001 and 2005, and a silver medal in 1997 in the women's singles event. She has also won a gold medal in the 1997 women's doubles event. Boroš retired from competitive table tennis in 2012. After working as a coach at the Werner Schlager Academy in Vienna, in 2017 Boroš started working for the German Table Tennis Association, coaching the national U-23 team in Düsseldorf. Since 2021, she has been coaching the German national Women's team. In 2015, Boroš was inducted into the European Table Tennis Hall of Fame.
People
Pantheon has 4 people classified as Serbian table tennis players born between 1937 and 1977. Of these 4, 3 (75.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Serbian table tennis players include Gordana Perkučin, Ilija Lupulesku, and Tamara Boroš. The most famous deceased Serbian table tennis players include Zoltán Berczik. As of April 2024, 3 new Serbian table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Gordana Perkučin, Ilija Lupulesku, and Tamara Boroš.
Living Serbian Table Tennis Players
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Gordana Perkučin
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.52
Ilija Lupulesku
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.48
Tamara Boroš
1977 - Present
HPI: 42.44
Deceased Serbian Table Tennis Players
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Go to all RankingsGordana Perkučin
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.52
Ilija Lupulesku
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.48
Tamara Boroš
1977 - Present
HPI: 42.44
