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René Lacoste (1904–1996) was a French tennis player, entrepreneur, fashion designer, and coach. Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, he competed for France in tennis and was a member of the France Davis Cup team. He participated in the men's doubles event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Lacoste was part of the group known as The Four Musketeers.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and received the Officer of the Legion of Honour. Lacoste was right-handed and spoke French. He authored works including *Plaisir du tennis* and *Lettres françaises*. He died of cancer in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. His children were Catherine Lacoste and Bernard Lacoste.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1905
- Works
- 2
Top works
- ["Lettres françaises"]
- Plaisir du tennis
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 59
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,736x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,570x
- The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2009 · cited 10,414x
- Gene expression profiling predicts clinical outcome of breast cancer
· 2002 · cited 7,507x
- Effects of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide versus radiotherapy alone on survival in glioblastoma in a randomised phase III study: 5-year analysis of the EORTC-NCIC trial
· 2009 · cited 6,602x
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Key facts
- Country sports
- France
- Born
- ( 1904-07-02 ) 2 July 1904, Paris , France
- Died
- 12 October 1996 (1996-10-12) (aged 92), Saint-Jean-de-Luz , France
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Int tennis hof
- 1976 ( member page )
- Career record
- 262–43 (85.9%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1926 , A. Wallis Myers )
- French open
- W ( 1925 , 1927 , 1929 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1925 , 1928 )
- Us open
- W ( 1926 , 1927 )
- Olympic games
- QF ( 1924 )
- Davis cup
- W ( 1927 , 1928 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- France
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- The Four Musketeers
- Given name
- René
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- Saint-Jean-de-Luz
- Child
- Bernard Lacoste
- Occupation
- fashion designer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
- Field of work
- clothing industry
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- France Davis Cup team
- Country for sport
- France
- Image
- René Lacoste.jpg
- Height
- 1.75
Show 12 more facts
- Commons category
- René Lacoste
- date of birth
- 1904-07-02
- date of death
- 1996-10-12
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- René Lacoste
- cause of death
- cancer
- singles record
- 76–10
- end of work period
- 1932-00-00
- handedness
- right-handedness
- birth name
- Jean René Lacoste
- nickname
- Le Crocodile
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean René Lacoste ( French pronunciation: [ʁəne lakɔst]; 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 players who dominated tennis 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. As a member of the French team, Lacoste won the Davis Cup in 1927 and 1928. Lacoste was ranked the World No. 1 player in some rankings for 1926, 1927 and 1929. He also won a bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “René Lacoste” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.