Helena Matouš
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| birth_date = {{birth date text|1921}}
| birth_place = Plzeň, Czechoslovakia
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| FrenchOpenresult = 3R (1946, 1947, 1950)
| Wimbledonresult = 4R (1951)
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| FrenchOpenDoublesresult = QF (1950)
| WimbledonDoublesresult = 1R (1949, 1950, 1951, 1952)
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Helena Matouš (nee Štraubeová; born 1921) is a Czech-Italian former tennis player. Born in Plzeň, Matouš was active during the 1940s and 1950s. She married tennis player and ice hockey international Milan Matouš.{{cite news |title=Matous, l'hockeista-tennista che giocò a Wimbledon e fece grande il Bolzano |url=https://www.altoadige.it/sport/matous-l-hockeista-tennista-che-gioc%C3%B2-a-wimbledon-e-fece-grande-il-bolzano-1.3297451 |work=Alto Adige |date=27 August 2022 |language=Italian}}
In 1948, following the communist takeover, she was one of four Czechoslovak players who were reported missing while on a tennis tour of Italy. Two members of the group, Jaroslav Drobný and Vladimír Černík, ended up returning to Prague before defecting for good a year later, while Matouš and future husband Milan Matouš stayed in Italy.{{cite news |title=Drobny Slates Czech Match |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/599345114 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=25 April 1948}}
Matouš was a singles runner-up at the 1949 Welsh Championships, reached the women's doubles quarter-finals of the 1950 French Championships and made the singles fourth round of the 1951 Wimbledon Championships.{{cite news |title=Champ Brough, Hart And Fry Gain Victories |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/303453158 |work=The Miami News |date=30 June 1951}}
Settling in the ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Matouš and her husband had a child Elena who was a national champion in alpine skiing. Her son in law Fausto Radici was an Olympic skier.
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Category:Possibly living people
Category:Czechoslovak female tennis players
Category:Italian female tennis players
Category:Czechoslovak defectors
Category:Czechoslovak emigrants to Italy
Category:Naturalised citizens of Italy