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...Frenchwoman, Mle. Suzanne Lenglen, took exactly 26 minutes to win her sixth British championship in the women's singles by defeating Miss Joan Fry, 19, of England...
...Wimbledon. The All-England Tennis Tournament gathered net notables to Wimbledon and the fun began. Who were the stars ? Jean Borotra of France, present holder of the championship; J. O. Anderson of Australia, long a Davis Cup player ; Suzanne Lenglen of France trying again; Miss Elizabeth Ryan of California. The leading men in the U. S. delegation there were Roy Casey of California and John Hennessey of Indiana. Belgium, Holland, India, Germany, Greece were among the other nations represented...
...best drawing card of the early rounds was in the women's singles-Miss Ryan against Miss Lenglen. Miss Ryan began with agility, won two games, almost won the third, and then weakened, lost, lost, lost, 12 games straight-and the match...
Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, having won the women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis championships of France (TIME, June 15), put away her brace of rackets, adventured on the golf course of the St. Cloud Country Club, turned in a 93* which won her second prize in a tournament organized by a sporting journal...
...brown maid whose exclamatory legs and bandeaued coif have been photographed innumerable times for the press of the U. S., of Europe, was posed once more last week before a battery of cameras. She, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, had just won the women's tennis championship of France. She seemed browner than ever before. Her legs, still eloquent, were leaner. She played recklessly and, when she occasionally lost a point withheld her gesticulations. She defeated Miss Kathleen McKane of England, 6-1, 6-2; proceeded, with her partner, Mile. Vlasto, to win the women's doubles; and, with...