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===Achievements=== Lenglen was ranked as the 24th greatest player in history in the ''[[100 Greatest of All Time]]'' television series. She was the ninth-highest ranked woman overall, and the highest-ranked woman to play exclusively in the amateur era.<ref>{{cite web |title=Federer Named Best of All-Time by Tennis Channel |url=https://newyorktennismagazine.com/article3940/federer-named-best-all-time-tennis-channel |website=New York Tennis Magazine |access-date=9 November 2019 | date = 26 March 2012}}</ref> After formal annual women's tennis rankings began to be published by tennis journalist and player [[A. Wallis Myers]] in 1921, Lenglen was No. 1 in the world in each of the first six editions of the rankings through her retirement from amateur tennis in 1926.{{sfn|Collins|2008|pp=695, 701}} She won a total of 250 titles consisting of 83 in singles, 74 in doubles, and 93 in mixed doubles.{{sfn|Little|2007|p=134}} Nine of her singles titles were won without losing a game.{{sfn|Little|2007|pp=131β134}} Lenglen compiled win percentages of 97.9% in singles and 96.9% across all disciplines. After World War I, she won 287 of 288 singles matches, starting with a 108-match win streak and ending with a 179-match win streak,{{sfn|Little|2007|pp=135β196}} the latter of which was longer than Helen Wills's longest win streak of 161 matches.{{sfn|Cherry|2018|p=93}} Lenglen ended her career on a 250-match win streak on clay.{{sfn|Little|2007|pp=135β196}} Lenglen's eight Grand Slam women's singles titles are tied for the tenth-most all-time, and tied for fourth in the amateur era behind only [[Maureen Connolly]]'s nine, Court's thirteen, and Wills's nineteen.<ref name=grand-slam-list>{{cite web |title=Women's Grand Slam Title Winners |url=http://www.espn.com/tennis/history/_/type/women |website=[[ESPN]] |access-date=10 November 2019}}</ref> Aside from the 1919 Wimbledon Championships, Lenglen did not lose more than three games in a set in any of her other Grand Slam or World Hard Court Championship singles finals.{{sfn|Little|2007|pp=135β196}} Lenglen's six Wimbledon titles are tied for the sixth-most in history.<ref name=grand-slam-list/> Her former record of five consecutive Wimbledon titles has since been matched only by [[Martina Navratilova]], who won her sixth in a row in 1987.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Larry |title=Martina was alone on top |url=http://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Navratilova_Martina.html |website=[[ESPN]] |access-date=10 November 2019}}</ref> Lenglen's title at the 1914 World Hard Court Championships made her the youngest major champion in tennis history at 15 years and 16 days old, nearly a year ahead of the next two youngest, [[Martina Hingis]] and [[Lottie Dod]].{{efn|[[Lottie Dod]] and [[Martina Hingis]] are respectively recognised as the youngest Grand Slam singles champion and youngest Grand Slam champion overall by virtue of the World Hard Court Championships not being one of the four modern Grand Slam tournaments.{{sfn|Robertson|1974|pp=33β35, 87}}<ref name=youngest/>}}<ref name=pro-quote2>{{cite web |title=Suzanne Lenglen: The original tennis diva of the 1920s who brought the women's game alive |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/24/suzanne-lenglen-the-original-tennis-diva-of-the-1920s-who-brough/ |website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] | date = 24 May 2016 |access-date=10 November 2019}}</ref><ref name=youngest>{{cite news |last1=Frey |first1=Jennifer |title=Hingis Aces Wimbledon Final |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/tennis/longterm/1997/wimbldn/wimble06.htm |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=9 November 2019 | date = 6 July 1997}}</ref> Lenglen won a total of 17 titles at Wimbledon, 19 at the French Championships, and 10 at the World Hard Court Championships across all disciplines. Lenglen completed three Wimbledon triple crowns β winning the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles events at a tournament in the same year β in 1920, 1922, and 1925. She also won two triple crowns at the World Hard Court Championships in 1921 and 1922, and six at the French Championships, the first four of which came consecutively from 1920 through 1923 when the tournament was invitation-only to French nationals and the last two of which came in 1925 and 1926 when the tournament was open to internationals.{{sfn|Little|2007|pp=131β134}}
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