Picture No | 10700927 |
Date | 1914 |
Description | Suzanne Lenglen aged 15 |
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Suzanne Lenglen (1899 - 1938), French tennis player, winner of 81 singles titles during the 1920s. Pictured as a precocious fifteen year old in The Tatler, which writes, 'Playing in the German style she seldom misses a shot, like Mr. Wilding (Anthony Wilding, NZ tennis player who won Wimbledon four times), from whom she learnt much of her game on the Riviera last season, and is at her best on the base-line...One day she may win the English championship.'
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Source | Photograph by Caudery in The Tatler, 17 June 1914 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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