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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 316,545 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jaroslav Drobný is the 47th most popular tennis player (down from 34th in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 226th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 47 out of 1,148Before him are John Newcombe, Pancho Gonzales, Henri Cochet, Monica Seles, Gabriela Sabatini, and Yannick Noah. After him are Darlene Hard, Max Decugis, Bobby Riggs, Gottfried von Cramm, Maria Sharapova, and William Renshaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 132Before him are Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Angelo Dundee, Arno Babajanian, Philippe de Gaulle, Maurice Yaméogo, and Wolfgang Lotz. After him are Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Georges Mathieu, Giovanni Benelli, Alain Mimoun, Heinz G. Konsalik, and Luis García Berlanga. Among people deceased in 2001, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 83Before him are Isao Inokuma, Alexey Maresyev, Mohamed Atta, Katharine Graham, Mirza Delibašić, and Beate Uhse-Rotermund. After him are Renato Carosone, Michel Marcel Navratil, Indro Montanelli, Juan Bosch, Richard Wurmbrand, and Bill Hewlett.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Drobný ranks 264 out of 973Before him are Jan Jindra (1932), Josef Lada (1887), Marta Kubišová (1942), Conrad I, Duke of Bohemia (1035), Leopold Koželuch (1747), and Spytihněv I, Duke of Bohemia (875). After him are Joseph Škoda (1805), Princess Michael of Kent (1945), Jan Kubelík (1880), Josef Blösche (1912), Emil Orlík (1870), and Václav Neumann (1920).

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 Petr Korda (1968), Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), Helena Suková (1965), Jana Novotná (1968), Hana Mandlíková (1962), Karel Koželuh (1895), Tomáš Šmíd (1956), and Radek Štěpánek (1978).