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...engineering studies to play tennis. He played so well that he was twice Forest Hills and Wimbledon champion as well as three-time champion of France. He was a member of the only French team that ever won the Davis Cup (1927, with Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon as fellow team members). Lacoste played so fiercely that sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When he left the tournament circuit in 1929, he remembered the name. Competitors like Big Bill Tilden had worn starched long-sleeved men's shirts on the courts, but Lacoste was so uncomfortable in them...
...This trio, with Jacques Brugnon, made up France's famed "Four Musketeers." They held the Davis Cup for six years until Great Britain's Fred Perry and Henry W. Austin won it in 1933 and held it, against all comers, until...
...France's own René Lacoste, one of the French "four musketeers" (the others: Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, Jacques Brugnon) who dominated international tennis 1924-29, was the grandfather of all crocodiles. Recalling one match against Lacoste, Bill Tilden remarked: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit ... often filled [me] with a wild desire to throw my racket...
...With Jacques Brugnon (now non-playing) and Marcel Bernard, other oldtime French Davis Cuppers, to raise money for the rebuilding of Paris' bombed-out Stade de Coubertin, heart of French indoor tennis. It was inconveniently near the Renault factory...
Pairings for the U. S. Singles tennis championships in Philadelphia were drawn in gloomy belief that Jacques Brugnon and Bernard Destremau of France, Charles Hare of England, Ferenc Puncec, Frank Kukuljevic and Demeter Mitic of Yugoslavia will be summoned home for war duty before the tournament ends next week...