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...critics were seen busy analysing the play of Helen Wills and comparing her to the Frenchwoman, Suzanne Lenglen. The general opinion was that Helen was not as fast as Suzanne but that she was a harder hitter. The American girl was also thought foolish to play in such an important tournament before familiarizing herself with the slower British balls and other strange conditions by playing in several minor tournaments...
...diminutive Helen Wills America has a real tennis ace. It is only a matter of time when this famous California miss journeys over to the Old World and takes the French champion, Mile. Lenglen, into camp. 'Little Poker Face' (as she is called by many writers) should reign supreme for many years...
...Miss Helen Wills, tennis champion: "My daughter entered the University of California as a Freshman. She will take a general course in Art. Commenting on a report from New York that my daughter would be sent to Europe by the U. S. L. T. A. to play the French Lenglen, I said: 'The trip to Europe must be at a time when it will not interfere with my daughter's college work...
Excepting Mile. Lenglen's retreat before the fury of Mrs. Mallory's play in 1921, no national women's finals has been so decisive in a decade. The Pacific Coast champion's strokes struck like lightning? never in the spot where her opponent waited. Her second serve smarted as sharply as her first. Her incredible ability to cover court served as an immovable defence...
...Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player: "I told a London radio audience how I keep my stockings up in play, why I sometimes cry on the court, what it is like to be a cham pion at Wimbledon and what a false legend it is that depicts me as a slave of my father, who is really very kind and patient. 'How do I keep them up?' said I. 'I roll a piece of elastic around twice' ... 'I am laughed at that I cry. I do not, but I just have dust...