Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis

by Tom Humberstone

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910395692
• ISBN13: 9781910395691
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.6"