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Biography
Suzanne Lenglen was a French tennis player born in Paris on May 24, 1899. Because of her ill health during her childhood years, her father decided to have her compete in tennis to gain physical strength. While it did improve her health, she found enjoyment in the sport and received greater training. Lenglen played in the final of the 1914 French Championships at 14 and lost, but celebrated a later victory at the World Hard Court Championships. This win set a record for her as the youngest winner of a major tennis championship.
In the 1920 Summer Olympics Lenglen dominated the women’s singles and won several Wimbledon championships from 1919 to 1925. She won the French Championships Singles title six times, the Doubles five times, and the World Hard Court Championships three times. Lenglen starred in an instructional film Tennis and How to Play It in 1922. She attempted to debut in America, but contracted whooping cough on the journey to New York and was unable to play at her best. The American press was not kind in their reviews of her performance and she returned home
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Suzanne Lenglen is usually considered the greatest female tennis player of the pre-World War II era. As an amateur she had a 181 match winning streak, and an overall record of 341 wins and 7 losses (98%), statistics that are hard to comprehend when compared to today’s players. Lenglen was French singles champion in 1920-23, and 1925-26 and won Wimbledon six of seven years – 1919-23 and 1925, losing in the semis in 1924 when she withdrew due to illness. Lenglen also won the 1914 World Hard Court Championship when she was only 15, which was then considered a major championship. Lenglen played at the US Championships only in 1921, when she lost in round two to Molla Mallory, withdrawing in the first game of the second set, after losing the first set, because of a chronic cough. Lenglen avenged that defeat in the 1922 Wimbledon final, winning 6-2, 6-0, and then at a tournament in Nice later in 1922, Lenglen double bageled her. She was the world #1 ranked player from 1921-26.
Lenglen also won the French doubles in 1920-23 and 1925-26, and the mixed in 1914, 1920-23 and 1925-26. At Wim
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Suzanne Lenglen
| Country (sports) | France |
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| Born | (1899-05-24)24 May 1899 Paris, France |
| Died | 4 July 1938(1938-07-04) (aged 39) Paris, France |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[1][a] |
| Turned pro | August 1926 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Coach | Charles Lenglen |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1978 (member page) |
| Career record | 332–7 (97.94%) |
| Career titles | 83 |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1921)[b] |
| French Open | W (1925, 1926) |
| Wimbledon | W (1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925) |
| US Open | 2R (1921) |
| WHCC | W (1914, 1921, 1922, 1923) |
| Olympic Games | W (1920) |
| Career record | 254–6 (97.69%) |
| Career titles | 74 |
| French Open | W (1925, 1926) |
| Wimbledon | W (1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925) |
| WHCC | W (1914, 1921, 1922) |
| Olympic Games | SF – Bronze (1920) |
| Career record | 381–18 (95.49%) |
| Career titles | 93 |
| French Open | W (1925, 1926) |
| Wimbledon | W (1920, 1922, 1925) |
| WHCC | W (1921, 1922, 1923) |
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