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Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was a French tennis player. She was the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning eight Grand Slam titles in singles and twenty-one in total. She was also a four-time World Hard Court Champion in singles, and ten times in total. Lenglen won six Wimbledon singles titles, including five in a row from 1919 to 1923, and was the champion in singles, doubles, and mixe…
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sports · French tennis player (1899–1938) · tennis player · also Suzanne Lenglen, Lenglen
Born 24 May 1899 · Died 4 July 1938 · Q232831
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2026· 3 entries
Yahoo! Sports: Shock announcement? Mauresmo hints Roland Garros night sessions will head to Suzanne Lenglen next year
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Yahoo! Sports: Welcome to Court Suzanne-Lenglen, the French Open amphitheater of heaven and hell at Roland Garros
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Suzanne Lenglen, the court of liberty
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2021· 2 entries
Tennis: Remembered for balletic game and brandy, Suzanne Lenglen was much more
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Tennis: Remembering Suzanne Lenglen, who—yes—never competed at Roland Garros
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2019· 1 entry
The Washington Post: Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis
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1994· 1 entry
With a capacity of about ten thousand – was named after her in 1997
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1978· 1 entry
And the second show court at the site of the French Open is named in her honour
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1938· 2 entries
Died 1938-07-04.
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Lenglen died on 4 July 1938 at the age of 39, three weeks after she became ill, and was reported to have died from pernicious anemia.
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1936· 1 entry
At the Tennis Mirabeau in Paris with the support of the FFLT
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1933· 1 entry
Lenglen returned to tennis as a coach serving as the director of a school on the grounds of Stade Roland Garros
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1932· 1 entry
After Féret was reinstated, but was told to wait another three years and decided against it
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1927· 2 entries
As the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball
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And kept that ranking for the next six years and nine of the next twelve overall until 1938
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1926· 1 entry
Ryan partnered with Mary Browne to defeat Lenglen and her new partner Julie Vlasto, coming from three match points down in the second set
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1924· 4 entries
Where Lenglen withdrew due to illness in the following round
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Except by default, she did not win a major tournament for the first time since 1913 aside from her hiatus due to World War I
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And 1926, Lenglen faced Wills only once in her career
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And Wills withdrew from the French Championships and Wimbledon in 1926 due to appendicitis, preventing a longer rivalry between tennis's two biggest female stars of the 1920s from emerging
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1923· 2 entries
To Dorothea Lambert Chambers and Kathleen McKane, again at Monte Carlo
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Declining in large part to keep her amateur status
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1922· 2 entries
With a seating capacity of nearly ten thousand, nearly three times larger than that at the old venue
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And 1923 by playing more aggressively and employing Mallory's strategy of hitting well-placed winners from the baseline
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1921· 4 entries
Awarded prix Monique-Berlioux (1921).
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Winning eight titles in singles, six in doubles, and seven in mixed doubles
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Only after the USLTA agreed to supply her with alcohol during her stay even though its sale was illegal under the laws of Prohibition at the time
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And 1922, and six at the French Championships, the first four of which came consecutively from 1920 through 1923 when the tournament was invitation-only to French nationals and the last two of which came in 1925 and 1926
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1919· 1 entry
In the second-longest final in history, the only one of her major singles finals she did not win by a lopsided scoreline
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1914· 2 entries
And also won a set in their second meeting two months later
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Lenglen focused on regular events
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1913· 2 entries
When they were 13 and 20 years old respectively
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Entered a handicap doubles event in Monte Carlo with Elizabeth Ryan, an American who had moved to England a year earlier
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1912· 1 entry
To visit her sister before deciding to stay there permanently
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-05-24.
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