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Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis

ISBN-13: 9781910395691

Author(s): Tom Humberstone

Subjects: FX, XA

Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing

Publisher Imprint: Avery Hill Publishing

Publication Date: 01-09-2022

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£17.99
Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis

About the book

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.