The Gene Krupa Story The audience rewards Krupa with a standing ovation. The film ends as Ethel tries to sneak off, sure Gene will return to his old ways. He catches up with her, and asks where she is going, "without me"? The closing credits come down on a shot of them walking away together, into the night. In real life, the two were first married from 1934 to 1942; they remarried in 1946 and were together until Ethel's death in 1955. Krupa himself played the drums on the soundtrack for the film, and for the sequences in which Mineo, as Gene, plays the
Tomáš Krupa included a win over second seeds David Adams and John-Laffnie de Jager. He won a total of four titles on the Challenger circuit. As a coach he is most famous for his involvement with Tomáš Berdych, who he coached from 2009 to 2014, during which time he made the final of Wimbledon. Prior to this he worked with Radek Štěpánek. More recently he has been the coach of Jiří Veselý and Barbora Strýcová. Tomáš Krupa Tomáš Krupa (born 14 November 1972) is a former professional tennis player and now coach from the Czech Republic. Krupa was a doubles specialist, most