Roland Garros Re-Lived: Suzanne Lenglen
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Tennis Re-Lived we venture back one hundred years to cover the remarkable career and life of tennis’ first superstar, Suzanne Lenglen, whose name now adorns the second show court at Roland Garros.
We talk about her upbringing by an overbearing father, how the war both delayed her career and created a world which was ready for her, the extraordinary records she achieved in amateur tennis, her boundary breaking fashion choices, the reasons why she was so famous, her controversial decision to turn professional, and her lasting legacy in tennis.
Along the way we cover some of the landmark moments of her career, including her memorable first and last appearances at Wimbledon, her ill-fated trip to America in 1921, and her match of the century against Helen Wills in 1926.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartolí. I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Huit. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Well hello folks, hello David and Matt and welcome to our midweek tennis podcast which might |
| 0:27.1 | ordinarily be a round up of the bits and bobs we've seen in this sort of day and a half since we lost |
| 0:32.4 | recorded a tennis podcast and we will be doing a round up of the bits and bobs from the week on Monday. |
| 0:39.8 | Don't you worry, I know that lots of stuff's happened. I'm sure lots of stuff will happen over |
| 0:46.1 | the coming days and we'll be covering all of it. Don't worry but today's episode is the first of our |
| 0:52.4 | two French Open Relived editions for 2021. I know what you're thinking. You relived pretty much |
| 1:00.0 | everything. There was to relive if the French Open in 2020 when it didn't happen or when you |
| 1:06.0 | thought it didn't happen but actually it had just been postponed and you ended up doing two whole |
| 1:11.0 | French Open's worth of daily podcasts and David's got a massive gleeful grin on his face at the |
| 1:16.4 | mid-mentioned of that but there is plenty more to cover and today's podcast David and Matt, |
| 1:23.0 | I think Matt should probably get the first word on this, will be dedicated to Suzanne Longland |
| 1:29.0 | about who Matt has been learning immense amounts and imparting that on to us over the past few days. |
| 1:38.4 | She, well after reading through all the research that you've done, my response to the group was |
| 1:46.5 | I'm going to have to name my next dog, Suzanne. I'm telling you there is no greater tribute I can |
| 1:52.6 | pay to anyone than that. That message really did make me laugh. Billy Jean has got a rival and |
| 2:02.4 | Suzanne Longland is that person. Yeah, I mean, look, we like to tell stories with tennis relived and |
| 2:10.2 | I think that makes Suzanne Longland a great choice for tennis relived because there are so many stories |
| 2:16.0 | about her, her just remarkable life that she led and also because quite frankly, I'm not sure |
| 2:23.6 | there's anyone we could have spoken to who would remember Suzanne Longland, we're going back |
| 2:28.7 | a hundred years here so I felt to do it justice, we had to go deep with the research because |
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