TENNIS PLAYER

Jaroslav Drobný

1921 - 2001

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Jaroslav Drobný (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslav ˈdrobniː]; 12 October 1921 – 13 September 2001) was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian to win the French Open, while doing likewise at the Wimbledon Championships in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaroslav Drobný is the 44th most popular tennis player (up from 49th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 250th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 44 out of 1,569. Before him are Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Shirley Fry, Serena Williams, Don Budge, and Nasser Al-Khelaifi. After him are Jean Borotra, Max Decugis, Fred Stolle, Neale Fraser, Hedwiga Rosenbaumová, and Nikola Pilić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 109. Before him are Maurice Richard, Betty Friedan, Nino Manfredi, Leonardo Sciascia, Mary Douglas, and Ben Bradlee. After him are Hannah Szenes, Gavriil Ilizarov, Ariel Ramírez, George Roy Hill, Gene Roddenberry, and Oskar Gröning. Among people deceased in 2001, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 69. Before him are Poul Anderson, Queen Aishwarya of Nepal, Mirza Delibašić, Ken Kesey, John Phillips, and Joey Ramone. After him are Luis Carniglia, Francisco Varela, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Marvin Harris, Vittorio Brambilla, and Henry Lee Lucas.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 206 out of 1,200. Before him are Guido Adler (1855), Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751), John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (1322), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Josef Koudelka (1938), and Jindřich Matyáš Thurn (1567). After him are Martin of Opava (1300), Vilém Flusser (1920), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830), Jiří Trnka (1912), Antonín Puč (1907), and Leopold Koželuch (1747).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Czechia

Among tennis players born in Czechia, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 4. Before him are Martina Navratilova (1956), Ivan Lendl (1960), and Jan Kodeš (1946). After him are Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), Jana Novotná (1968), Petra Kvitová (1990), Helena Suková (1965), Hana Mandlíková (1962), Petr Korda (1968), Tomáš Šmíd (1956), and Tomáš Berdych (1985).

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