Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 14, 2005

Suzanne Lenglen was a French tennis player, who dominated the women's game from 1919 to 1926, winning 25 Grand Slam titles. A flamboyant player, she was the first female tennis celebrity, and one of the first international female sport stars, named La Divine (the divine one) by the French press. Prior to Lenglen, female tennis matches drew little fan interest but she quickly became her sport's greatest drawing card. Tennis devotees and new fans to the game began lining up in droves to buy tickets to her matches. Temperamental, flamboyant, she was a passionate player whose intensity on court could lead to an unabashed display of tears. But for all her flamboyance, she was a gifted and brilliant player who used extremely agile footwork, speed and a deadly accurate shot to dominate female tennis for seven straight years. Her excellent play and introduction of glamour to the tennis court increased the interest in women's tennis, and women's sport in general. (more...)

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