Jaroslav Drobný, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jaroslav Drobný

Czech tennis and ice hockey player

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1921

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 13-Sep-2001

Profession: tennis player, ice hockey player

Nationality: Egypt, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jaroslav Drobný (Czech pronunciation: ['jaroslav 'drobni?]; 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 1954, he became the first and, to date, only player with African citizenship to win the Wimbledon Championships (aside from dual citizen Roger Federer, who holds South African citizenship but officially represents only Switzerland in sports).