Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess Of Tennis

A graphic novel biography of pioneering tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen, who changed how we look at the game today. One of the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen was a woman few even remember. A championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war, Suzanne Lenglen broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks, scandalised and entranced the public with her playing outfits, and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout restrictive tennis society in the trailblazing jazz age. With stunning art and an astute eye, Suzanne explores how a figure both enormously influential and too-often overlooked battled her father''s ambition, bias in sporting journalism, and her own divisive personality, to forge a new path - and to change sport forever.

• | Author: Tom Humberstone
• | Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2022
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781910395691
• | ISBN-10: 1910395692