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TENNIS PLAYER

René Lacoste

1904 - 1996

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Jean René Lacoste (2 July 1904 – 12 October 1996) was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929, and eventually founded the brand and its logo in 1933.Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers with Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, and Henri Cochet, French tennis stars who dominated the game in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles at the French, American, and British championships and was an eminent baseline player and tactician of the pre-war period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Lacoste has received more than 1,182,399 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). René Lacoste is the 4th most popular tennis player (down from 2nd in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from France (up from 600th in 2019) and the most popular French Tennis Player.

René Lacoste is most famous for inventing the tennis shirt, which he called the "tennis shirt."

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, René Lacoste ranks 4 out of 1,148Before him are Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic, and Björn Borg. After him are Billie Jean King, Fred Perry, Roger Federer, Margaret Court, Manuel Santana, Ilie Năstase, Steffi Graf, and Martina Navratilova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, René Lacoste ranks 21Before him are Karl Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Joan Crawford, George Gamow, Ève Curie, and Pavel Cherenkov. After him are Glenn Miller, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, John Hicks, and Luis Carrero Blanco. Among people deceased in 1996, René Lacoste ranks 14Before him are Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Marguerite Duras, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Brodsky, and Babrak Karmal. After him are Paul Erdős, Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, Adolf Galland, Joan Clarke, and Gene Kelly.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Lacoste ranks 581 out of 6,011Before him are Paul Dukas (1865), Roger I of Sicily (1031), Gaston Leroux (1868), Alaric II (458), Alfred de Musset (1810), and Pierre Richard (1934). After him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Jacques Monod (1910), Robert Bresson (1901), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Maurice Jarre (1924), and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In France

Among tennis players born in France, René Lacoste ranks 1After him are Suzanne Lenglen (1899), Jean Borotra (1898), Henri Cochet (1901), Yannick Noah (1960), Max Decugis (1882), Jacques Brugnon (1895), André Prévost (1860), André Gobert (1890), Gaël Monfils (1986), Maurice Germot (1882), and Amélie Mauresmo (1979).