Word: lenglen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Elizabeth ("Bunny") Ryan won her first tennis championship in 1912. She went to England for the summer of 1914, stayed abroad to drive an ambulance in the War. Since the War, she has won 20 titles at Wimbledon (doubles and mixed doubles), innumerable minor championships, played Suzanne Lenglen in a Wimbledon singles final. Last week, equipped with a British accent and a contract to write about the tournament, Elizabeth Ryan, 43. was entered at Forest Hills. Playing in shorts for the first time in her career, she lost to Helen Jacobs in the quarterfinals...
...first time Henri Cochet visited the U. S., in 1921, he was a member of Suzanne Lenglen's entourage. It was his job to run out on the tennis court with smelling-salts when she felt indisposed. The last time he left the U. S., in 1932, he had just lost to Ellsworth Vines in the finals of the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started...
...Suzanne Lenglen, after losing a set to Molla Mallory, defaulted when she developed a hacking cough. That set the pattern for the extraordinary way in which Mrs. Moody's supremacy in women's tennis, unchallenged for seven years, ended last week. In the first game of the third set, she double-faulted twice, so feebly that the crowd grew restless and Umpire Benjamin Dwight had to hold up his hand for silence. Helen Jacobs won that game and the next, from 0-30. Serving again, Mrs. Moody won one point and then lost four...
...first, in tournament singles, since 1927-to young Dorothy Round, England's second ranking player, who last spring refused to enter the French championships lest she have to play a match on Sunday. Score of the Moody victory-by far her hardest match since she last played Suzanne Lenglen...
...usually symmetrical. At Wimbledon last week, on the side of the draw that contained Betty Nuthall and Mme René Mathieu, Helen Jacobs in the semi-finals met the French champion who had beaten Betty Nuthall the day before. She won her match, 7-5, 6-1. Suzanne Lenglen who had just flown over from Paris and who said she planned to play exhibition tennis this summer, watched Mrs. Moody, who has not lost a set in competition since 1927, win her fifth Wimbledon championship two days later...