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Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.
Short and Sweet Alexa Brazilian 2011
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When Suzanne Lenglen, the predictably glamorous French tennis star of the 1920s often dressed by Jean Patou, wore a knee-length dress with three-quarter sleeves to win Wimbledon in 1919, she opened the flood gates of "risqué" tennis fashion, which soon included Helen Jacobs in shorts at Forest Hills in 1933 and Gussy Moran in those much-photographed lace knickers beneath her tennis skirt at Wimbledon in 1949.
Serving an Ace on the Courts Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.
Short and Sweet Alexa Brazilian 2011
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Bottega Veneta Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier 's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen .
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Serving Up Fashion on the Courts From left to right, Popperfoto/Getty Images 2; Corbis; Sports Illustrated 1920 Suzanne Lenglen sported this 'risque' dress when she won Wimbledon.
Serving an Ace on the Courts Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Bottega Veneta Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier 's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen .
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Suzanne LenglenOne of the greatest players of all time, Lenglen won six Wimbledon titles between 1919 and 1925.
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Nadal was giving the center-court crowd a thumbs-up signal following his triumph shortly after Djokovic completed a much more arduous win on Court Suzanne Lenglen.
Nadal breezes to win, sets up semi showdown with Djokovic 2008
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"If somebody would tell us when we were 12 or 13 when we were practicing that we would play on Suzanne Lenglen in a quarterfinal, I wouldn't believe it," Gulbis said.
Nadal breezes to win, sets up semi showdown with Djokovic 2008
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In 1926, on course for her seventh Wimbledon title, Lenglen unwittingly kept Queen Mary waiting in the royal box.
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