The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,569 Tennis Players, 1 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 71st most number of Tennis Players behind Qatar, and Algeria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yvon Petra (1916 - 1984)
With an HPI of 45.35, Yvon Petra is the most famous Vietnamese Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Yvon Petra (French pronunciation: [ivɔ̃ petʁa]; 8 March 1916 – 12 September 1984) was a French male tennis player. He was born in Cholon, French Indochina. Petra is best remembered as the last Frenchman to win the Wimbledon Championships men's singles title (in 1946), beating Geoff Brown in five sets in the final. In doubles, he won the French Championships twice, in 1938 with Bernard Destremau, defeating the best pair in the world Budge-Mako, and in 1946 with Marcel Bernard. In 1938, he won the singles and doubles title at the French Covered Court Championships. He was a prisoner of war in World War II and after his release won three Tournoi de France singles titles from 1943 through 1945. He emigrated to the United States and worked as a tennis pro at the Saddle and Cycle Club in Chicago and a country club in Connecticut towards the end of his life. Petra was ranked world No. 4 for 1946 by A. Wallis Myers and world No. 8 for 1947 by Harry Hopman. He was the last man to wear long trousers in a Wimbledon final and was the last Frenchman to win the singles title. Petra joined the tour of professional players in 1948. He was inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2016.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Vietnamese tennis players born between 1916 and 1916. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Vietnamese tennis players include Yvon Petra.
