Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (prononcé [lɑ̃'glɛn]), née à Paris le 24 mai 1899 et morte dans cette même ville le 4 juillet 1938 , est une joueuse de tennis française. Surnommée « la Divine », elle fut la première star internationale du tennis féminin.
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen, née à Paris le 24 mai 1899 et morte dans cette même ville le 4 juillet 1938, est une joueuse de tennis française. Surnommée « la Divine », elle fut la première star internationale du tennis féminin. ( via Wikipédia)
Naissance : 24 mai 1899, 16e arrondissement de Paris, Paris, France
Décès : 4 juillet 1938, Paris, France
Tournois du Grand Chelem remportés (simple) : 12
Début de carrière professionnelle :1914
Médaille Olympique : Simple dames de tennis aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920,
Suzanne Lenglen (1899-1938) is a legend of women's sports in general and tennis in particular.
Because it is the first of its kind and has no predecessor. For his talent, his victories, and the admiration she has managed to create in the caste misogynist men's tennis at the time, it has its place in the pantheon of athletes in all disciplines. It is also no coincidence that it has a short name at Roland Garros. She would have been 117 years old today, and Google decided to make it a digital birthday by dedicating a doodle.
The listing of athletic performance is staggering. From 1919 to 1926 Suzanne Lenglen not be bowed once in singles. And it was not even a conventional defeat, but an abandonment due to illness to American Molla Mallory at the US Open in 1921. And during this seven-Empress of tennis, she won Wimbledon six times and six once the Internationaux de France. Originally Picardy - she was born in Maretz-sur-Matz, a small village near Compiègne (Oise) - she touches her first racket in 1910. Two years later she played his first senior tournament. Then, ten months later, the world champion in men's tennis, the New Zealander Anthony Wilding, asks him to be his partner to play in mixed doubles. She is only 13 years ... It's like Novak Djokovic today recruited her teammate in college! Unthinkable. She won her first world championship in 1914.
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