Vladimír Černík
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Vladimír Černík was a Czech tennis player who represented Czechoslovakia and later Egypt. He was a mainstay of his country's Davis Cup team in the years immediately following World War II, helping the
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Jaroslav Drobný
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Jaroslav Drobný 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, w
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…individual tournament victories in singles were his two Swiss International Championships in 1946 and 1950. In July 1949, he and Davis Cup team-mate Jaroslav Drobný defected while attending that year's Swiss Championships in Gstaad. He continued to tour the amateur tennis circuit thereafter, first with Swiss papers…
Drobný in 1958
Jaroslav Drobný's plaque at the 1st Czech Lawn Tennis Club in Prague
Jaroslav Drobný (r), playing for Egypt, being congratulated by 18-year-old Lew Hoad (l) after Drobný's victory in the final of the 1953 Italian Championships in Rome.