 After reaching the semifinals in 1963 (beating Roy Emerson before losing to Chuck McKinley) and 1964 (losing to Emerson), the unseeded Bungert was the second German player (thirty years after Gottfried von Cramm) to reach the Wimbledon men’s finals in 1967 when he beat Roger Taylor in five sets.However, he lost the final in straight sets against the Australian John Newcombe.In 1970 he (with Christian Kuhnke) was part of the German Davis Cup team which lost the finals against the U.S. 0