Editing Suzanne Lenglen (section)

===1914: World Hard Court champion===
[[File:Suzanne Lenglen playing baseline 1914 (cropped) 3.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.98|Lenglen at the 1914 World Hard Court Championships|alt=Lenglen about to hit a forehand at the baseline with the ball above head-height]]

Back on the Riviera in 1914, Lenglen focused on regular events. Her victory in singles against the high-ranking British player [[Ruth Winch]] was regarded as a huge surprise by the tennis community. However, Lenglen still struggled at larger tournaments early in the year, losing to Ryan in the quarterfinals at Monte Carlo and six-time [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] champion [[Dorothea Lambert Chambers]] in the semifinals at the South of France Championships. In May, Lenglen was invited to enter the [[French Championships]], which was restricted to French players. The format gave the defending champion a bye until the final match, known as the challenge round. In that match, they faced the winner of the All Comers' competition, a standard tournament bracket for the remaining players. Lenglen won the All Comers' singles draw of six players to make it to the challenge round against [[Marguerite Broquedis]]. Despite winning the first set, she lost the match. This was the last time in Lenglen's career she lost a completed singles match, and the only time she lost a singles final other than by default. Although she also lost the doubles challenge round at the tournament to [[Blanche Amblard|Blanche]] and [[Suzanne Amblard]], Lenglen won the mixed doubles title with [[Max Decugis]] as her partner.{{sfn|Little|2007|pp=7–8}}{{sfn|Engelmann|1988|pp=14–15}}

Lenglen's performance at the French Championships set the stage for her debut at the [[1914 World Hard Court Championships|World Hard Court Championships]], one of the major tournaments recognised by the [[International Lawn Tennis Federation]] at the time.{{sfn|Robertson|1974|pp=33–35, 87}} She won the singles final against [[Germaine Golding]] for her first major title. The only set she lost during the event was to Suzanne Amblard in the semifinals. Her volleying ability was instrumental in defeating Amblard, and her ability to outlast Golding in long rallies gave her the advantage in the final. Lenglen also won the doubles title with Ryan over the Amblard sisters without dropping a game in the final. She finished runner-up in mixed doubles to Ryan and Decugis. Following the World Hard Court Championships, Lenglen could have debuted at [[1914 Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]], but her father decided against it. He did not like her chances of defeating Lambert Chambers on grass, a surface on which she had never competed, given that she had already lost to her earlier in the year on clay.{{sfn|Little|2007|p=10}}{{sfn|Engelmann|1988|pp=15–16}}