Yvon Petra

Yvon Petra was a French male tennis player, born in Cholon in French Indochina on 8 March 1916. He is best remembered as the last Frenchman to win the Wimbledon men's singles title, which he took in 1946 by beating Geoff Brown in five sets in the final. He also won the French Championships doubles twice, in 1938 with Bernard Destremau and in 1946 with Marcel Bernard. He was held as a prisoner of war during the Second World War and, after his release, won the Tournoi de France singles title three years running from 1943. He turned professional in 1948, later moved to the United States and worked as a tennis professional in Chicago and Connecticut, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2016.