Word: brugnon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...