Jaroslav Drobný (tennis player)

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Jaroslav Drobný Tennis player
Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný 1958
Nation: CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia Egypt United Kingdom
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939Bohemia and Moravia 
Egypt 1922Egypt 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Birthday: October 12, 1921
Date of death: September 13, 2001
1st professional season: 1938 (amateur tour)
Resignation: 1969
Playing hand: Left
singles
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  3
Australian Open 2R (1950)
French Open S (1951, 1952)
Wimbledon S (1954)
US Open HF (1947, 1948)
Double
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  1
Australian Open F (1950)
French Open S (1948)
Wimbledon F (1951)
US Open -
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  1
Australian Open -
French Open W (1948)
Wimbledon SF (1948)
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia  Jaroslav Drobný Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 1997
Date of birth October 12, 1921
place of birth Prague , Czechoslovakia
date of death September 13, 2001
Place of death London , England , UK
size 180 cm
Weight 80 kg
position striker
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1936-1949 I. ČLTK Prague
1951-1953 EHC Gstaad

Jaroslav Drobný (born October 12, 1921 in Prague , † September 13, 2001 in London ) was a Czechoslovak tennis and ice hockey player who played for Egypt from 1949 and for the United Kingdom from 1959 .

Career

Jaroslav Drobný's father took a job as groundskeeper at I. ČLTK Prague , so that his son Jaroslav came into contact with tennis at an early age. He earned his pocket money as a ball boy, watched the tennis players eagerly and learned in the process. When he was 16 years old, Czechoslovakia first used him in the Davis Cup in 1938 . In his singles, he fended off three match points and won the match in five sets. Because of his achievements, a Prague newspaper started a fundraising campaign to finance Drobný's participation in the 1938 Wimbledon Championship . Ultimately, he was able to go to London , but failed in the first round, among other things because he had never played on grass before and often slipped.

Jaroslav Drobný played ice hockey in winter and tennis in summer for I. ČLTK Prague . He operated both sports on a world-class level. In 1941 he became champion of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia with the club .

Drobný was world champion in ice hockey with the Czechoslovak national team in 1947 and won the silver medal with the team at the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 . Interrupted by the Second World War, he returned to the tennis stage in 1946 and reached the final in Roland Garros in the same year . From 1949 he concentrated only on tennis and was in the final of Wimbledon for the first time . In July 1949 he took part in the Swiss championships in Gstaad together with Vladimír Černík . While Černík was traveling with a large number of suitcases, Drobný only had a small suitcase with a couple of shirts, a toothbrush and $ 50. Shortly after the start of the tournament, he was asked by the executive committee of the national sports organization Sokol of the ČSR to leave the tournament and return home, as German and Spanish players also took part in this tournament. Černík and Drobný did not comply with this request, were thereupon accused of high treason in their home country and placed under protection by the tournament organizers.

After fleeing to Switzerland, he was in charge of EHC Gstaad from National League B as a player- coach from December 1951 .

From 1951 he started for Egypt. As the only Egyptian to date, he won the Wimbledon tournament in 1954 after losing to Frank Sedgman in the final two years earlier . At the French championships Drobný was more successful and won the tournament in 1951 and 1952 in singles, in 1948 in doubles and mixed. In 1954 he moved to London. In the district of South Kensington he opened a sports shop ( Sport Drobný ) and took British citizenship in 1959. He died in 2001.

He was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983 .

successes

Czechoslovakia 1920CzechoslovakiaProtectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939Bohemia and Moravia National ice hockey team
statistics 31 games, 36 goals
debut Czechoslovakia 1-0 Romania
Prague , February 11, 1937
First goal Czechoslovakia 24-0 Yugoslavia
Basel , February 3, 1939
Last goal Czechoslovakia 4: 3 USA
St. Moritz , February 8, 1948
Last game Czechoslovakia 4: 3 USA
St. Moritz , February 8, 1948
Czechoslovakia 1920CzechoslovakiaProtectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939Bohemia and Moravia Top national league
statistics 39 games, 52 goals
Top scorer 1942 (9 goals)
1943 (6 goals)

tennis

Australian Open
  • Double finals: 1950
French Open
  • Winner: 1951, 1952
  • Finale: 1946, 1948, 1950
  • Double winner: 1948
  • Double finals: 1950
  • Mixed winner: 1948
Wimbledon Championships
  • Winner: 1954
  • Finale: 1949, 1952
  • Double finals: 1951

ice Hockey

Achievements and Awards

Records

  • Youngest national player of Czechoslovakia at 15 years, 3 months and 30 days
  • Youngest world championship participant in Czechoslovakia at 17 years, 2 months and 22 days
  • Youngest World Championship scorer in Czechoslovakia at 17 years, 2 months and 22 days

Ice hockey statistics

Source: hockeyarchives.info

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1939 Czechoslovakia World Championship 4th place 7th 6th 1 7th 0
1940 Bohemia and Moravia Winter sports week 1st place 3 6th 1 7th 1
1947 Czechoslovakia World Championship Gold Medal.svg gold medal 6th 14th 5 19th 2
1948 Czechoslovakia Olympia Silver medal.svg Silver medal 7th 10 9 19th 7th
Men overall 23 36 16 52 10

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Jaroslav Drobný  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Meile: Ice hockey world champion Jaroslav Drobny wins Wimbledon in 1954 - as an Egyptian. In: watson.ch. July 7, 2019, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  2. ^ Czechoslovakia recalls tennis players from Switzerland. In:  Weltpresse. Independent news and voices from all over the world / world press , July 14, 1949, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dwp
  3. ^ Gstaad, Switzerland: Two famous tennis champions of the CSR refuse to go home. In:  Wiener Kurier. Published by the American armed forces for the population of Vienna , July 16, 1949, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wku
  4. ^ Neue Zürcher Nachrichten, number 281, December 3, 1951 issue 02, Drobny ice hockey coach in Gstaad
  5. ^ Walliser Volksfreund, January 11, 1952, Visp: National League B championship game
  6. ↑ JAROSLAV DROBNÝ. In: reprehokej.cz. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Milan Ma ?? ek: Individuální rekordy hráčů hokejové reprezentace Čech a Československa (1909 - 1992). In: hokej.hansal.cz. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Milan Ma ?? ek: Československá hokejová reprezentace v sezóně 1947-1948. In: hokej.hansal.cz. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Jaroslav Drobný. In: hockeyarchives.info. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Drobný, Jaroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak tennis and ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2001
Place of death London