TENNIS STARS
(below), are memories of the great days when French tennis, and tennis throughout the world, was dominated by the figures of Borotra, Cochet, Lacoste. Brugnon won the doubles at Wimbledon in 1926 and 1928 with Cochet, and in 1932 and B (above), and Boussus
1933 with Borotra. Boussus belongs to a younger generation, Jean Borotra was one of the most astounding tennis players in the history of the game. He bounced, he bounded, he fell and recovered, he leaped about, he disconcerted every opponent, he won: Wimbledon singles in 1924 and 1926, Wimbledon doubles in 1925, 1932, 1933, Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1925 with Suzanne Lenglen. By 1930 he was a veteran, but in 1932, when Ellsworth Vines rocketed to fame, it was Borotra who took the sting out of his cannonball service by catching the ball on the rise and winning against the champion of whose hitting at Wimbledon that season Jack Crawford said: "I have never seen the equal." Cochet, Borotra, and Lacoste between them held the Wimbledon singles title from 1924 to 1929. Tilden had held it in 1920-21, Patterson and Johnson followed, then came the long sequence of French successes, then it went back to Tilden, and since then has been divided among Wood, Vines, Crawford, Perry, Budge and Riggs. The famous trio: began their successful bombardment of the best that Wimbledon could offer just as an equally famous French player was going into the decline that all champions must anticipate. Suzanne Lenglen .... won
her first Wimbledon singles in 1919 and held the title continuously until 1923, when it went to Miss K. Mchhine. In 1925 she caught up on it again, and in that year won the mixed doubles with Borotra. While she played she became almost a legend of grace and speed. There is still something of the legend about her name. No other woman tennis player has ever held such a dominant position unchallenged for so long a period. The French held the Davis Cup from 1927 to 1932. Australia (which included New Zealand until after the 1922 round) has held it for 16 years, U.S.A. for 12, Britain for 7.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 40, 29 March 1940, Page 38
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360TENNIS STARS New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 40, 29 March 1940, Page 38
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