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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 17 October 2021 [1].


Nominator(s): Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:54, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about Suzanne Lenglen, a French tennis player from the 1920s. She won Wimbledon six times in singles and six times in doubles, and may have won many more major titles if she didn't retire from amateur tennis in 1926 at just 27 years old to turn professional. She never lost a match in Europe after World War I, but did lose the only amateur match she played in the United States. Although Lenglen is no longer as famous as the current top players, many fans of tennis today will recognize her name from Court Suzanne Lenglen at the French Open. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:54, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Quick comments the infobox photo is fantastic but I can barely see what she looks like in it, which is the purpose of an infobox photo. I suggest moving it further down and using this one instead in the infobox. Skimming through the article it looks well-written and researched, but one thing that seems to be missing is any information about how her death was received? Did France and the tennis world publicly mourn for her? Was her legacy immediately analysed and reassessed?

It's weird that even her death itself is written about so little. When I saw her dates in the opening sentence I went looking for what happened (there's nothing in the lede) and because she died so young I thought there would be a section or sub-section about it, but I had to scroll around for a bit before I found it in Personal life.—indopug (talk) 12:52, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi indopug, that's a good point. Besides where she was buried, the book also mentions where her funeral was held and lists some of the famous people from her life who attended. (I could add that?) I think the funeral was open to the public, but it doesn't say how many people were there. My impression from the books is that her death was relatively ignored. Part of the reason for that is because she had not really been in the public eye since she retired. The other reason is that her successor, Helen Wills, was making a comeback at Wimbledon the week she died and the tennis world was more focused on that. The New York Times obituary summarizes her life, but her early death did not change how she was perceived. The French obituaries are similar, I think. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 16:12, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I zoomed in more on the infobox photo. I didn't want to use the other photo of her sitting on a bench because it is not so representative of how she looked as a tennis player. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 16:12, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Hawkeye7

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Quick comments Not a lot to say at this point, but some issues:

Feel free to argue with me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:04, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:54, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Cas Liber

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Giving another lookover Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:13, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Okay - looks good on comprehensiveness and prose. I did tighten the language quite a bit with my first read-through before this FAC. Looking now I can't see any obvious prose-clangers but I am often not adept at picking things up after first read-through. Still i think this is in striking distance Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Edwininlondon

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Quite a star worthy of quite a long article. Little to remark, mostly minor points:

That's it from me. Nice work. Edwininlondon (talk) 13:10, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, Edwininlondon! I replied to everything above. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 18:10, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I Support. Nice work. Edwininlondon (talk) 21:15, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

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Pass. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:42, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - pass

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It seems like the sources are consistently formatted. Is Collins, Bud the same as Bud Collins? Same for Helen Hull Jacobs and Helen Jacobs? As far as I can tell the sources seem reliable but this isn't my area of expertise. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:42, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, did you want them linked? Sportsfan77777 (talk) 16:51, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
iff they are the same person, yes. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 18:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Linked those, and a few others. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 18:56, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Seems like this passes, then. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 19:03, 2 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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