The Original ‘It Girl’ of Tennis Played Drunk, Undressed and Undefeated

Before there was a "cool girl" athlete archetype to subvert, there was Suzanne Lenglen: a French teenager who beat her own father at tennis three months after learning to play, then spent the next two decades dismantling the sport's stuffiest conventions.

This is the story of the woman who made winning look like the least interesting part of being great.