Czech Tennis Star Not Going Home
Received Monday, 8.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 21. The C/.echoslovakian tennis star, Jaroslav Drobny, who arrived today to play in the Nevl' Bonth Wales champioiiships which were postponed because of rain, said he was glad to be iii Alistralia and hoped he could stay as it was so far from Europe. If he could not remain he would live in Switzerland. ' ' I am not returning to Czechoslovakia," he said. "They are trying to use our sport for propaganda. Papets that called me a hero wheii I Won, now call me a traitor. v He tipped that next year Australia would win the Davis Cup.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 November 1949, Page 5
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