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Jaroslav Drobný
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Czech tennis and ice hockey player (1921–2001)
Key facts
- Country sports
- Czechoslovakia (until 1939 and 1945–1950), Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945), Egypt (1950–1959), Great Britain (after 1959)
- Born
- ( 1921-10-12 ) 12 October 1921, Prague , First Czechoslovak Republic
- Died
- 13 September 2001 (2001-09-13) (aged 79), London , England
- Turned pro
- 1938 (amateur tour)
- Plays
- Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Int tennis hof
- 1983 ( member page )
- Career record
- 1106–268 (80.5%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1954 , Lance Tingay )
- Australian open
- 2R ( 1950 )
- French open
- W ( 1951 , 1952 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1954 )
- Us open
- SF ( 1947 , 1948 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jaroslav
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- ice hockey player
- Languages spoken
- Egyptian Arabic
- Native language
- Egyptian Arabic
- Participant in
- 1948 Winter Olympics
- Sport
- ice hockey
- Member of team
- Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Jaroslav Drobný tennis player (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Prague
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- date of birth
- 1921-10-12
- date of death
- 2001-09-01
- Commons category
- Jaroslav Drobný
- singles record
- 113–36
- doubles record
- 0–1
- end of work period
- 1969-00-00
- start of work period
- 1938-00-00
- different from
- Jaroslav Drobný
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Encyclopedic overview
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. In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian to win the French Open, while doing likewise at the Wimbledon Championships in 1954. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983. He played internationally for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team, and was inducted in the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.
Tennis career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jaroslav Drobný” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.