WHIRLWIND TENNIS
♦ ' M A ,DE M 01SELI <E .1 jENGLEN. Nineteen years of age, Mdlle. Lenglen is (says the "l)ailv Mail," in an appreciation of this wowlvrtul tenuis champion) only just out of "Jlapperdom." In France sl\e has been called rlie girl Carpentier. She won (he French . open championship when only 15. • "Von ask my methods!''' said 'Mdlle. T/englen. "I do not know lliat 1 have any. .First, .1 throw dignity to the winds, I think of nothing but tho gauic. I try to hit the ball with all my force, and to send it where my opponent is not. I pay lo myself: Make your opponent do the work and the running about, and if I. have lo run myself I go just as fast as, I can. This is my first, appearance at Wimbledon. I do not mind the big audiences. I do not see them when I am playing." Sho is certainly splendid lo watch. Iler hitting is terrific. One opponent said she ought to have entered Iho men's competition. Her strategy, in such a young player, is mngnificcnt, and her skilful placing has'enabled her to dominate much older opponents. Sho plays with her head and keeps her head.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 6
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202WHIRLWIND TENNIS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 6
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