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Bain News Service, 'Susanne Lenglen', glass negative, undated (the LOC catalogue date of 1900 is a placeholder and cannot be right for this sitter); Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection, no known restrictions on publication · Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection, LCCN 2014712853 (negative no. 5496-8, glass negative), via Wikimedia Commons 'Susanne Lenglen LCCN2014712853.jpg' · Public domain
Trait Constellation
Key Achievements
Lenglen won the Wimbledon ladies' singles in 1919-1923 and 1925, beating the seven-time champion Dorothea Lambert Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7 in the 1919 final. The All England Club records 15 Wimbledon titles for her (six singles, six doubles and three mixed) and 91 wins in the 94 matches she played there.
At the 1920 Antwerp Olympics Lenglen won gold in women's singles and in mixed doubles with Max Decugis, and bronze in women's doubles with Elisabeth d'Ayen. Olympedia lists her as French singles champion in 1920-1923 and 1925-1926; the tournament was open only to French players until 1925.
In 1926 Lenglen signed a $50,000 contract with the promoter C. C. Pyle and toured the United States against Mary K. Browne, a three-time US champion. The Tennis Hall of Fame calls it the first women's professional series and says she won all 38 matches. Professionals could not enter Wimbledon, and Sports Illustrated reports that the club rescinded her membership.
Lenglen played in short-sleeved silk dresses with hemlines above the calf and without the bulky undergarments then usual, and had Jean Patou make her a pleated white silk skirt, a sleeveless cardigan and a tulle hair band; from 1922 she wore bright colours. The Hall of Fame and the Roland-Garros site both present her as a change in what women wore on court.
Moments That Reveal Them
On 16 February 1926 Lenglen met Helen Wills, then a three-time US champion, at the Carlton Club in Cannes, the only time they played. Spectators watched from rooftops and neighbouring windows. At 6-5 in the second set an umpire overruled what Lenglen took for a winner, Wills levelled at 6-6, and Lenglen won 6-3, 8-6 after 59 minutes.
Winning the second set after the call went against her is consistent with competitiveness; the accounts also describe her as visibly nervous, so the match shows the drive and the strain together, and it is one match. Competitiveness
After retiring from competition, Lenglen ran a tennis school in Paris. Having heard Margaret Morris lecture on movement, she invited Morris to adapt her exercises for tennis, and the two worked on them at Lenglen's Paris flat. Pupils had to do the exercises before they were allowed to pick up a racket, and the pair published Tennis by Simple Exercises in 1937.
Seeking out an outside specialist and rebuilding her pupils' first lessons around the method is consistent with a mastery orientation; the account comes from the Margaret Morris archive and reflects Morris's side of the collaboration. Mastery Orientation
Turning Points
At the 1926 Wimbledon, Lenglen's second-round singles was rescheduled so that Queen Mary could watch, and she arrived late. The club's own history cites a scheduling mix-up and a failure to inform her properly; a contemporary United Press report says she refused to play. She was booed the next day, withdrew from the championships and never played at Wimbledon again. Later that year she signed with C. C. Pyle and turned professional.
Accepting the loss of Wimbledon to play on her own terms is consistent with a need for autonomy: in a 1926 interview she called the amateur rules 'ridiculous' and said players should meet whom they liked. Sources disagree on who was at fault on the day, so no trait is read from the incident itself. Need for Autonomy
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Sources
- Suzanne Lenglen (Q232831) -- verified live via wbgetentities and the Wikidata item page (2026-10-07): en label 'Suzanne Lenglen', description 'French tennis player', P569 24 May 1899, P570 4 Jul 1938, citizenship France (Q142), instance of human, born and died Paris (Q194420), ko label '쉬잔 랑글렌', P18 'Suzanne Lenglen 02.jpg'. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- Suzanne Lenglen and Lenglen-Dewhurst match at the 1926 Wimbledon Championships -- Wikipedia articles (raw wikitext of the match article read in full; the main article's reference list used only to find sources). Orientation only; the match article draws on Alan Little's 2007 Wimbledon Museum biography and Larry Engelmann's 1988 book, neither of which was available to read. Not used as support for any scored row.
- William T. Tilden 2nd, The Art of Lawn Tennis (New York: George H. Doran Company, revised edition covering the 1921 season), Internet Archive full text (artlawntennis01tildgoog) -- CONTEMPORARY RIVAL-SPORT PEER, the American men's champion, who was present at Lenglen's 1921 US Championships match; opinionated, writes admiringly of her technique and critically of her mannerisms. Read locally: the passages on the 1921 Lenglen-Mallory match and the American tour, and the 'Famous Women Players' sketch of Lenglen.
- William T. Tilden 2nd, The Common Sense of Lawn Tennis (London: Methuen, 1924), Internet Archive full text (bwb_KT-576-957) -- independent contemporary assessment by the then American champion, with a chapter on women in tennis that discusses Lenglen's play and her temperament. Read locally: the Lenglen passages of 'Women in Tennis' and the 1923 season review.
- A. Wallis Myers, Twenty Years of Lawn Tennis: Some Personal Memories (London: Methuen; New York: George H. Doran, 1921), Internet Archive full text (twentyyearsoflaw00myerrich) -- INDEPENDENT CONTEMPORARY JOURNALIST, the leading British tennis correspondent, who watched Lenglen on the Riviera and at Wimbledon; chapter X, 'The Lesson of Mlle Lenglen', is a first-hand analysis of her training and tactics. Read locally: chapter X in full, the Nice and Monte Carlo passages and the 1914 and 1919 Wimbledon recollections.
- Suzanne Lenglen, Lawn Tennis for Girls (New York: American Sports Publishing Company, Spalding Athletic Library, 1920; translated from the French), Internet Archive full text (lawntennisforgir00leng) -- SELF SOURCE, an instructional book with an introduction by F. B. Alexander and a clearly added costume section by another hand. Read locally: chapter I ('My Own Game', her account of how her father trained her) and the training passages. Her statement there that she drinks no alcohol conflicts with other sources and was NOT used.
- Hong Kong Telegraph, 29 June 1926, Internet Archive OCR (NPTG19260629) -- period press: a United Press account of the Wimbledon incident ('Another version of Lenglen affair') and a Reuters line that she retired from all Wimbledon events. The OCR is poor; read only for the dated report. The United Press version is hostile in tone and conflicts with the later Wimbledon Museum account.
- Hong Kong Daily Press, 1 September 1926, Internet Archive OCR (NPDP19260901) -- period press reprint of an interview with Lenglen about her professional contract with C. C. Pyle and her view of amateur tennis rules ('Mlle. Lenglen on her choice'). The OCR is garbled and was read only for the quoted statements; the interviewer and original paper are not identified in the text.
- Sports Illustrated, 'The Incomparable Life and Mysterious Death of Suzanne Lenglen' (issue of 30 May 2019), read in full -- modern magazine biography that leans on Larry Engelmann's and Alan Little's books; secondary and anecdotal in places (some retellings such as the 'blindfolded Borotra' story were NOT used).
- International Tennis Hall of Fame, Suzanne Lenglen (Class of 1978) biography page, read in full -- institutional overview citing Alan Little's research and Larry Engelmann's book; used for her title record, the 1919 Wimbledon final, the 1926 Cannes match with Helen Wills and the 1926 professional tour.
- International Tennis Hall of Fame, 'TennisWorthy: Suzanne Lenglen, A Roaring 20s Legend' (25 March 2019), read in full -- institutional feature with quotations from the historian Patrick Clastres and from Larry Engelmann (as told to CNN in 2013).
- Olympedia, Suzanne Lenglen (athlete 2455), read in full -- the Olympic statistical record: 1920 Antwerp gold in women's singles and mixed doubles (with Max Decugis), bronze in women's doubles (with Elisabeth d'Ayen); did not start in 1924; also summarises her Wimbledon and French titles and her professional tour against Mary K. Browne.
- Wimbledon (All England Club), history of the 1920s, read in full for the Lenglen entries -- official club record of her 15 Wimbledon titles and 91 wins in 94 matches, and the club's own account of the 1926 second-round scheduling mix-up.
- Roland-Garros official site, 'Suzanne Lenglen, the first diva of tennis' (20 July 2018), read in full -- tournament feature on her clothing commissions from Jean Patou and her influence on women's tennis dress.
- University of Edinburgh Library, 'Body Language: movement, dance and physical education in Scotland, 1890-1990' blog (May 2018) on Margaret Morris and Suzanne Lenglen, read in full -- draws on the Margaret Morris Collection (Fergusson Gallery, Perth); used for Lenglen's 1930s collaboration with Morris, her Paris tennis school and the 1937 book Tennis by Simple Exercises.
- We Are Tennis (BNP Paribas), '90 years ago, the match of the century between Lenglen and Wills' (22 September 2016, by Regis Delanoe), read in full -- sponsor-site feature on the 16 February 1926 Cannes match: the promoters, the crowd, the 6-3, 8-6 result in 59 minutes. Journalistic and somewhat romanticised; used only for the match facts.