biography
pronunciation:
[lãlã]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1899–1938)
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| biography:
| Tennis player, born in Compiègne, N France. She was the woman champion of France (1920–3, 1925–6), and her Wimbledon championships were the women's singles and doubles (1919–23, 1925), and the mixed doubles (1920, 1922, 1925). In 1920 she was Olympic champion. She became a professional in 1926, toured the USA, and retired in 1927 to found the Lenglen School of Tennis in Paris. |
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