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Wednesday. I know all these women are watching what I wear, and my dresses didn't come today. Insufferable people, dressmakers. Mlle. Lenglen had on an elaborate thing on Monday, which gives her the idea that she's getting ahead of me. . . . She asked me to have tea with her at the Imperial Club at Nice. Her idea of tea was a bottle of champagne. We drank each other's healths. Not a word about tennis. She showed me the centre court where she beat Molla Mallory in 1923. I had on lavender and blue...
...turned raw. Lillie Cadle (British) was playing against me. I wanted to get it over quickly and played as hard as I could. She took three games in the second set. Critics said that I was better in this match than in any other here so far. . . . Suzanne Lenglen said that "circumstances over which she had no control might prevent her meeting me in the tournament at Nice." Well, if she doesn't play me then, she must in the Carleton Hotel tournament here...
...President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association) is fussing because I am writing for French newspapers. He thinks it affects my amateur standing, but I don't think he interprets the player-writer rule correctly. . . Spent the morning writing an article supposed to be an analysis of Suzanne Lenglen's style. What these editors like is a few measured generalities. . . . Rain cleared in the afternoon. Tea at the Casino...
...Vienna, Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraten, bounding tennis-player, so-called "tennis-playing bounder," was asked whether he intended to marry Suzanne Lenglen. Said...
Paired with Borotra, Mle. Lenglen won the mixed doubles championship...