Word: lenglen
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...
...Mile. Lenglen won a second title on the same day when, paired with Elizabeth Ryan, American resident of England, she retained joint claim to the women's doubles championship at the expense of Misses Austin and Colyer, English, both under...