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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 66,298 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yvon Petra is the 236th most popular tennis player (down from 181st in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Tennis Player.

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  • 16

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  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Yvon Petra ranks 236 out of 1,148. Before him are Hendrik Timmer, May Sutton, Elina Svitolina, Harold Kitson, Ichiya Kumagae, and Tomáš Berdych. After him are Balázs Taróczy, Aristidis Akratopoulos, Manuela Maleeva, Helen Jacobs, Fred Alexander, and Muriel Robb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Yvon Petra ranks 236. Before him are Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Kazimierz Brandys, Paul Felix Schmidt, Toni Branca, Kurt Pettersén, and Shigeo Arai. After him are Karen Lachmann, Jakob Streitle, Edward Binns, John Kundla, José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, and Ken Wharton. Among people deceased in 1984, Yvon Petra ranks 202. Before him are Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, René Lorain, Aldo Campatelli, Paul Felix Schmidt, Eino Purje, and Ernst Stueckelberg. After him are Henry Wilcoxon, Ann Christy, Laurent Grimmonprez, Simón Lecue, Vladimir Tendryakov, and José María Lavalle.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Yvon Petra ranks 96 out of 124. Before him are Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (1959), Phạm Minh Mẫn (1934), Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (1954), Philipp Rösler (1973), Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (1938), and Ngô Bảo Châu (1972). After him are Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum (1905), Eugene H. Trinh (1950), Cung Le (1972), Jane Luu (1963), Lê Công Vinh (1985), and Kim Thúy (1968).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Vietnam

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

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