Suzanne Lenglen - one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Between 1919 and 1926, she lost only one match. The first major tennis star to turn professional, Lenglen died of pernicious anaemia 4 July 1938 at the age 39.
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There are so many interesting people in the history of tennis I don’t know enough about.
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A remarkable athlete…also a style icon of the 1920s who modelled Jean Patou’s work on and off the tennis courts.
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