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The incredible story of Suzanne Lenglen, a woman who changed the face of sport and society in the trailblazing jazz age, but who few even remember. One of the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen was a woman few even remember. A championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war, Suzanne Lenglen broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks, scandalised and entranced the public with her playing outfits, and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout restrictive tennis society in the trailblazing jazz age. With stunning art and an astute eye, Suzanne explores how a figure both enormously influential and too-often overlooked battled her father's ambition, bias in sporting journalism, and her own divisive personality, to forge a new path - and to change sport forever.

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"The excitement spills from the pages almost a century later… a sympathetic understanding of a phenomenal sportswoman who was well ahead of her time in pointing the finger at the sport’s iniquities and inequalities. It’s a fascinating read." -Slings and Arrows

Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess Of Tennis

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      Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing Limited
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/2022
      ISBN13: 9781910395691, 978-1910395691
      ISBN10: 1910395692
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      Book Synopsis
      The incredible story of Suzanne Lenglen, a woman who changed the face of sport and society in the trailblazing jazz age, but who few even remember. One of the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen was a woman few even remember. A championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war, Suzanne Lenglen broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks, scandalised and entranced the public with her playing outfits, and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout restrictive tennis society in the trailblazing jazz age. With stunning art and an astute eye, Suzanne explores how a figure both enormously influential and too-often overlooked battled her father's ambition, bias in sporting journalism, and her own divisive personality, to forge a new path - and to change sport forever.

      Trade Review
      "The excitement spills from the pages almost a century later… a sympathetic understanding of a phenomenal sportswoman who was well ahead of her time in pointing the finger at the sport’s iniquities and inequalities. It’s a fascinating read." -Slings and Arrows

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