WEAKNESS IN TENNIS
FRANCE'S WOMEN PLAYERS Why is Franco so weak in women lawn tennis players? asks an English writer. Apart from Mmo. Mathieu — who, by the way, has three children, and was actually a mother when she won the French junior championship—the country has no outstanding woman player. .Just as in certain quarters in England a new star is periodically hailed, so in France a finger is occasionally pointed to some girl with the remark: "Here, at last, is the successor to Suzanne Lenglen." The French Lawn Tennis Federation does everything possible to develop promising talent among the women players. "Perhaps these are the lean years," says one writer, "and our womanly talent will bloom when our musketeers (the men who won and have kept the Davis Cup) must lay down the sword."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 16
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