How I play tennis - Suzanne Lenglen

[gzhpcu]

91 years ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_90PPjyGBgk

[stotty]

Incredible footage...

91 years ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_90PPjyGBgk

I posted this same video some time ago. I think it's the most extraordinary footage I have ever seen. I just love the way she makes a post out of her flank to hit the backhand smash. The clip is a treasure, it really is.

[klacr]

The backhand smash at 10:27 is poetry in motion.

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

[don_budge]

-leading to a real backhand "smash"- (in "slow-motion&quot

I particularly like the caption as well…"-leading to a real backhand "smash"- (in "slow motion")

The backhand smash at 10:27 is poetry in motion.

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

Exquisite…sublime! It puts GeoffWilliams' backhand smash (read high backhand volley) to shame.

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[gzhpcu]

When I was in my early twenties, I was playing in a club in Lugano (which I wrote about), and the founder, Lee Born, who was then in his 80's, absolutely adored Susan Lenglen and used to tell endless stories about her.

Here is Lee as I knew him, a great Belle Epoque character full of tall tales about tennis...

[stotty]

When I was in my early twenties, I was playing in a club in Lugano (which I wrote about), and the founder, Lee Born, who was then in his 80's, absolutely adored Susan Lenglen and used to tell endless stories about her.

Here is Lee as I knew him, a great Belle Epoque character full of tall tales about tennis...

That's nice photo of Lee. What racket is that he's holding, a Spalding?

[gzhpcu]

Could be...

Here is another clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46QFVGCZYk

[stotty]

Could be...

Here is another clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46QFVGCZYk

She is amazing and just loves the camera. She is deliberately making poses for the camera. The press must have loved her back in the day. I imagine her strokes during matchplay against worthy opponents were less dramatic.

[gzhpcu]

Lee Born used to say that Lenglen's father wouldn't let her compete until she was able to hit 1000 balls in a row against a wall without error...

[tennis_chiro]

What was true then... is still true now!

When people come in to the shop to sign up themselves or their children to learn to play tennis, I tell them that if they want to learn to play, they better make friends with a wall somewhere. While the game may have changed, this axiom still holds as well now as it did 100 years ago.

don

[johnyandell]

Phil,
Love the pic.