''SUZANNE,"

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 December 1923, Page 4

''SUZANNE,"

(Staniev N. Doust, in thp "Daily Mail.) Of all the great personalities at Wimbledon the greatest is undoubtedly Mdle. Lensrlen. Wherever she plays —on the ce.ntre court or on some obscure outside court (although it is the exception for her to play on any court other th*m the centre or second show court") —the crowd knows the very minute she is appearing, and there is a general movement towards the court where this wonderful Frenchwoman is playing. "Wonderful is the right word to describe her. It is a word that describes any great tennis, as she did the Johnston-Richards classic single match on Friday last. Anyone watching Mdlle.. Lenglen play for the first time must be just a shade disanpointed that all her strokes, are not fast ones. Tikleu himself thought she was a decidedly "soft" player the first time he watched her r>lay, but I wonder if ho. thinks so still?

But that is where the young Frenchwoman is so wonderful. She oan vary her pace without any apparent change in the swing of the racquet, like a; bowler at cricket, who varies his pare without the batsman being able to observe when he is going to do so. Suzanne makes her own opportunities, shortening and lengthening her drives with the greatest precision, and : wheiT~she has got her opponent just where she wants her to be, a quick topspin drive, as fast as may be required, wins her the ace and saves the game. ' (it is expected that Mdlle. Lenglen will visit Australia shortly.)