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Show SUZANNE LENGLEN IS TO START ALL OVER Drive Lost Its Speed and Placements Their Accuracy. Suzanne Lenglen fears she will have to learn tennis all over again. When the mighty Suzanne returned from her enforced vacation at I'ourville, near Dieppe, where she retired after her breakdown at Wimbledon, she found that her drive had lost its speed and her placements their accuracy. In two sets at St. Cloud, just previous pre-vious to her departure for Nice, she found the courts too small and the nets too high. Her vaunted placements, place-ments, the terror of her adversaries, either went over the side lines or struck ttie net. After being one set down to Madame Vaussard a player to whom Suzanne could generally give 15 and a beating the former champion champ-ion of the world threw up her racquet In disgust and announced that she would practice in secret at the Nice club and would not play In public again until December. "Three months without taking a racquet In hand have just about done for me," she said. "I don't want again to make such a miserable showing before a gallery. The next time you s . ...... ... , w' , r' t p H ! 'W: -' '" OIIOl:' II. 1 Suzanne Lenglen. see me on the courts I'll either be the old Suzanne or you won't see me at all." Suzanne also has grown quite stout and will need hard work to get down to playing weight. "I must get back Into form before spring," said Suzanne, "because I am very anxious to play Miss Wills next summer. If I am to lose my titles there Is no one in the world to whom I would rather pass them on than her." |