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.
Author: Tom Humberstone
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing
Published: 10/01/2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.71w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9781910395691
Language: English
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