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René Lacoste
Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed The Crocodile by fans because of his tenacity on the court; he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929. Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers with Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, and...

Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French and first black man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France’s Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye...

Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was a French tennis player who won 31 Championship titles between 1914 and 1926. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, 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. Early life A daughter...

Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon. Mauresmo first attained the top ranking on 13 September 2004, holding it for five weeks on that occasion. She was the fifteenth world no....

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is a French professional tennis player. He was born in Le Mans, to a French mother, Évelyne, and a Congolese father, Didier, who moved to France in the 1970s to play handball. Tsonga is a member of the Tennis Club de Paris (TCP). Tsonga rose to fame by virtue of his performance in the 2008...