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TENNIS PLAYER

Jana Novotná

1968 - 2017

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Jana Novotná (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjana ˈnovotnaː]; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998, and was runner-up in three other majors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jana Novotná has received more than 1,895,534 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Jana Novotná is the 126th most popular tennis player (up from 133rd in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 491st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Czech Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Jana Novotná ranks 126 out of 1,148Before her are Edgar Leonard, Michael Stich, Bob Falkenburg, David Ferrer, Marion Jones Farquhar, and Sigrid Fick. After her are Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Conchita Martínez, Andrés Gómez, Beals Wright, Julie Vlasto, and Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Jana Novotná ranks 150Before her are Bennet Omalu, Michael Stich, Michael Stuhlbarg, Giuseppe Signori, Billy Crudup, and Zara Whites. After her are Jeri Ryan, Cristian Mungiu, Kurt Angle, Yevgeny Shevchuk, Stephanie Seymour, and Edward Burns. Among people deceased in 2017, Jana Novotná ranks 298Before her are John Abercrombie, Otto Warmbier, Marita Lindahl, Clare Hollingworth, Shunichiro Okano, and Hans Alfredson. After her are Shyla Stylez, Lil Peep, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Halit Akçatepe, Carlos Humberto Romero, and Karl-Erik Nilsson.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jana Novotná ranks 512 out of 973Before her are Karel Škréta (1610), Géza Fejérváry (1833), Herbert Feigl (1902), Tomáš Rosický (1980), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), and Tomáš Skuhravý (1965). After her are Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), Oldřich Lipský (1924), František Škroup (1801), Jaroslav Burgr (1906), Petr Nečas (1964), and Ernst Deutsch (1890).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Czechia

Among tennis players born in Czechia, Jana Novotná ranks 8Before her are Ivan Lendl (1960), Jan Kodeš (1946), Jaroslav Drobný (1921), Petr Korda (1968), Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), and Helena Suková (1965). After her are Hana Mandlíková (1962), Karel Koželuh (1895), Tomáš Šmíd (1956), Radek Štěpánek (1978), Tomáš Berdych (1985), and Petra Kvitová (1990).