TENNIS PLAYER

Jan Kodeš

1946 - Today

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Jan Kodeš (born 1 March 1946) is a Czech former professional tennis player. A three-time major singles champion, Kodeš was one of the premier players in the early 1970s. Kodeš's greatest success was achieved on the clay courts of the French Open, where he won the singles title in 1970 and 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Kodeš has received more than 252,928 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Jan Kodeš is the 36th most popular tennis player (up from 40th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 243rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Tennis Player.

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  • 63.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Jan Kodeš ranks 36 out of 1,569. Before him are Bill Tilden, Pete Sampras, Venus Williams, Don Budge, Manuel Santana, and Stefan Edberg. After him are Gottfried von Cramm, Manuel Orantes, Mansour Bahrami, Max Decugis, Coral Buttsworth, and John Newcombe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jan Kodeš ranks 156. Before him are Jesualdo Ferreira, Robert Mapplethorpe, Harold Shipman, Linda Ronstadt, Pēteris Vasks, and Mohamed Abdelaziz. After him are Francisco Varela, Queen Saleha of Brunei, Tony Levin, Fernando Filoni, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Malcolm McLaren.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Kodeš ranks 211 out of 1,200. Before him are Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (1064), Vilém Flusser (1920), Egon Kisch (1885), Franz Bardon (1909), Otfried Preußler (1923), and Otto Kittel (1917). After him are Karl von Terzaghi (1883), Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (970), Julius von Payer (1841), Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1531), Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1662), and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Czechia

Among tennis players born in Czechia, Jan Kodeš ranks 3. Before him are Martina Navratilova (1956), and Ivan Lendl (1960). After him are Jaroslav Drobný (1921), Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), Jana Novotná (1968), Petr Korda (1968), Hana Mandlíková (1962), Helena Suková (1965), Tomáš Šmíd (1956), Tomáš Berdych (1985), and Karel Koželuh (1895).

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