TENNIS PLAYER

Yvon Petra

1916 - 1984

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yvon Petra has received more than 71,897 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Yvon Petra is the 308th most popular tennis player (down from 236th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 96th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Tennis Player.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Yvon Petra ranks 308 out of 1,569. Before him are Pancho Segura, Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, Toni Nadal, Nancy Richey, Josef Maleček, and Marin Čilić. After him are Helga Niessen Masthoff, Heinrich Schomburgk, Betty Nuthall, Nathalie Tauziat, Harold Solomon, and Věra Suková.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Yvon Petra ranks 254. Before him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, Blas de Otero, Margaret Lockwood, Guy Lapébie, I. J. Good, and Iva Toguri D'Aquino. After him are Giuseppe Tosi, Roger Apéry, Dennis Poore, Kurt Pettersén, Lennart Klingström, and Betty Taylor. Among people deceased in 1984, Yvon Petra ranks 220. Before him are Ólafur Jóhannesson, Pentti Hämäläinen, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Paul Le Flem, Shelly Manne, and Henry Wilcoxon. After him are Nikolai Tomsky, Machito, Peggy Ann Garner, Carl Foreman, Wilhelm Müller, and Héctor Hernández.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Yvon Petra ranks 100 out of 136. Before him are Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (1938), Ngô Bảo Châu (1972), Phạm Duy (1921), Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908), Dany Carrel (1932), and Jane Luu (1963). After him are Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (1954), Hanoi Hannah (1931), Peter Nguyen Van Hung (1958), Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum (1905), Philipp Rösler (1973), and Eugene H. Trinh (1950).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Vietnam

Among tennis players born in Vietnam, Yvon Petra ranks 1. 

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