Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English tennis player and ice hockey player (died 2001)

Jaroslav Drobný

Czech tennis and ice hockey player

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, where he died in 2001. In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian…