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Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen ((:syzan lɑ̃'glɛn); 24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player who won 31 Championship titles between 1914 and 1926. She dominated women's tennis from the end of World War I until 1926 when she turned professional. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press. Lenglen's 241 titles, 181 match winning streak and 341-7 (97.99%) match record are hard to imagine happening in today's tennis atmosphere.
== Early life ==
A daughter of Charles and Anaïs Lenglen, Suzanne Lenglen was born in Paris.〔(Interview with Suzanne Lenglen ) in the magazine ''Femina'' on July 1, 1914 (p. 382)〕〔(Suzanne Lenglen's Olympic profile ) at sports-reference.com〕 During her youth, she suffered from numerous health problems including chronic asthma, which also plagued her at a later age.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Short biography )〕 Because his daughter was so frail and sickly, Charles Lenglen, the owner of a carriage company, decided that it would be good for her to compete in tennis and gain strength. Her first try at the game was in 1910, when she played on the tennis court at the family property in Marest-sur-Matz. The young girl enjoyed the game, and her father decided to train her further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where, the story goes, he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.〔Although a beautiful story, its accuracy has been refuted. Mary K. Browne was a three-time singles titlist at the U.S. Championships and a runner-up at the French Championships. She traveled with and played against Lenglen on a professional tour for nearly five months in late 1926 and early 1927. Browne said in her book that she specifically asked Lenglen about the story. Lenglen laughed, saying that this story and many others about her were fantasy.〕
Only four years after her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the 1914 French Championships, aged only 14 (the tournament was open only to members of French clubs until 1925). She lost to reigning champion Marguerite Broquedis in the final 5–7, 6–4, 6–3.〔This was the only complete match Lenglen lost until the end of her career. Her other loss was a mid-match retirement against Molla Bjurstedt Mallory.〕 That same year, she won the World Hard Court Championships held at Saint-Cloud, turning 15 during the tournament. This made her the youngest winner of a major championship in tennis history, a record she still holds. The outbreak of World War I at the end of the year stopped most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was put on hold for the next 5 years, until Wimbledon in 1919.
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