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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaroslav Drobný has received more than 351,754 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jaroslav Drobný is the 49th most popular tennis player (down from 47th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 264th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Tennis Player.

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  • 27

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  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 49 out of 1,569Before him are Monica Seles, Reginald Doherty, Henri Cochet, Yannick Noah, Andrés Gimeno, and Gabriela Sabatini. After him are Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Ken Rosewall, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Pancho Gonzales, Maria Bueno, and Rosie Reyes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 130Before him are Wolfgang Borchert, Pierre Clostermann, César Baldaccini, Maurice Yaméogo, Eugenio Coșeriu, and James Whitmore. After him are Fernando Fernán Gómez, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Jean Behra, Darío Moreno, Géza Anda, and Anne Golon. Among people deceased in 2001, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 75Before him are John Phillips, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Luis Carniglia, Perry Como, Soad Hosny, and Pierre Klossowski. After him are Hannelore Kohl, Bill Hewlett, Marvin Harris, Liisi Oterma, Juan Bosch, and Elazar Shach.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 250 out of 1,200Before him are Jan Hammer (1948), Jan Saudek (1935), Johannes Widmann (1460), Spytihněv I, Duke of Bohemia (875), Helena Vondráčková (1947), and Alice Herz-Sommer (1903). After him are Erhard Raus (1889), Vincenz Priessnitz (1799), Beatrice of Luxembourg (1305), Václav Neumann (1920), Max Dvořák (1874), and Karel Reisz (1926).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Czechia

Among tennis players born in Czechia, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 4Before him are Martina Navratilova (1956), Ivan Lendl (1960), and Jan Kodeš (1946). After him are 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).