{{Short description|French and Jamaican tennis player (1904–1996)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox tennis biography |name = René Lacoste |image = René Lacoste wearing his signature insignia.jpg |caption = Lacoste wearing his signature insignia, c. 1926 |country = {{FRA}} |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1904|7|2}} |birth_place = Paris, France |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1996|10|12|1904|7|2}} |death_place = Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France |height = |turnedpro = |retired = 1932 |plays = Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |tennishofyear = 1976 |tennishofid = rene-lacoste |singlesrecord = 262–43 (85.9%)<ref name="Rene Lacoste: Career match record">{{cite web|last1=Garcia|first1=Gabriel|title=Rene Lacoste: Career match record|url=https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=playern&player_input_enc=LACOSTE%2C+RENE&player_input=LACOSTE%2C+RENE&sub=2#aSubmenu|website=thetennisbase.com|publisher=Tennismem SL|access-date=7 November 2017|location=Madrid}}</ref> |singlestitles = 24<ref name="Rene Lacoste: Career match record"/> |highestsinglesranking = No. '''1''' (1926<small>, A. Wallis Myers</small>) |FrenchOpenresult = '''W''' (1925, 1927, 1929) |Wimbledonresult = '''W''' (1925, 1928) |USOpenresult = '''W''' (1926, 1927) |Othertournaments = yes |Olympicsresult = QF (1924) |FrenchOpenDoublesresult = '''W''' (1925, 1929) |WimbledonDoublesresult = '''W''' (1925) |USOpenMixedresult = F (1926, 1927) |WimbledonMixedresult = 2R (1923) |Team = yes |DavisCupresult = '''W''' (1927, 1928) |medaltemplates-expand = yes |medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze | 1924 Paris | Doubles}} }}
'''Jean René Lacoste''' ({{IPA|fr|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;<ref name=tennishof>{{cite web|title=René Lacoste|url=https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/rene-lacoste/|publisher=International Tennis Hall of Fame}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lacoste, the story of an iconic brand {{!}} LACOSTE|url=https://www.lacoste.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-FlagShip-Site/en_US/Page-Show?cid=lacoste-history|access-date=2021-05-14|website=www.lacoste.com|language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref name=collins>{{cite book|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=[New York]|isbn=978-0942257700|pages=598, 599|author=Bud Collins|edition=2nd}}</ref> He also won a bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22 |title=René Lacoste |work=Olympedia |access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref>
==Tennis career== thumb|upright=.8|Lacoste in 1922 Lacoste started playing tennis at age 15 when he accompanied his father on a trip to England.<ref name=collins/><ref name=nytobit>{{cite news|author1=Robin Finn|title=Rene Lacoste Dies at 92; Gave Fashion the Alligator|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/14/sports/rene-lacoste-dies-at-92-gave-fashion-the-alligator.html|work=The New York Times|date=14 October 1996}}</ref> His first participation in a Grand Slam tournament was the 1922 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost in the first round to Pat O'Hara Wood. The following year, 1923, he reached the fourth round at Wimbledon to be narrowly defeated by Cecil Campbell, and he competed for the first time in the U.S. Championships.
His breakthrough came in 1925 when he won the singles title at the French Championships and at Wimbledon, in both cases after a victory in the final against compatriot Jean Borotra. The following year, 1926, Lacoste lost his French title after a straight-sets defeat in the final to Henri Cochet. He did not compete at Wimbledon that year, but in September he won the U.S. National Championships title against Borotra. He was ranked No. 1 for 1926 by A. Wallis Myers, tennis correspondent of The Daily Telegraph,<ref>{{cite news|date=4 October 1926|title=Best Tennis Players|page=2 (City Edition)|newspaper=The Telegraph|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177798128|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Bill Tilden,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1926-12-01|title=World's First Ten Players|volume=63|page=18|work=New Zealand Herald|issue=19499|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19261201.2.180?}}</ref> Suzanne Lenglen<ref>{{Cite news|date=1926-10-22|title=MLLE. LENGLEN RANKS TILDEN IN 6TH PLACE; Names Miss Wills First Among Women Players -- Lacoste Tops the Men's List.|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1926/10/22/archives/mlle-lenglen-ranks-tilden-in-6th-place-names-miss-wills-first-among.html}}</ref> and Stanley Doust (''Daily Mail'').<ref>{{Cite news|date=1927-01-05|title=World's Ten Best Tennis Players: Where is Tilden to be Ranked?|page=3|work=The Star (Christchurch)|issue=18046|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19270105.2.27}}</ref>
In 1927, dubbed "The finest year in tennis history" by E. Digby Baltzell, Lacoste was part of the French team that captured the Davis Cup from the United States, ending the latter's 6-year title run. The final was played at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia and Lacoste won both his singles matches against Bill Johnston and Bill Tilden.<ref>{{cite web|title=Davis Cup – 1927 Results|url=http://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie/details.aspx?tieId=10003586|publisher=ITF|access-date=30 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=David J. Walsh|title=Two 'Bills' Fall Before French Tennis Stars|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uUAuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZtgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5953%2C5620143|work=The Miami News|date=11 September 1927|pages=1, 11}}</ref> He played Tilden in two Grand Slam tournament finals that year and won both of them. At the French Championships he was victorious in five sets; at the U.S. National Championships he defended his title and denied Tilden his seventh U.S. title by winning in straight sets, although he survived setpoints in the first and third set and was down a break in the second.<ref name=robertson/> At Wimbledon, Lacoste lost a five-set semifinal to Borotra.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94414225|title=Borotra beats Lacoste|newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1950)|location=WA|date=2 July 1927|access-date=1 April 2015|page=5|publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was ranked No. 1 by A. Wallis Myers,<ref>{{cite news|date=5 October 1927|title=Tennis Players.|page=15|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16408696|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Émile Deve,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=1927-12-02|title=Etude sur le classement des dix meilleurs joueurs du monde|language=French|trans-title=Study on the ranking of the ten best players in the world|pages=1, 5|work=L'Auto|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46322701}}</ref> U.S. ranking committee president,<ref>{{cite news|date=24 March 1928|title=CUMM1NGS AND MOON|volume=52|page=9|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93667535|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=28 November 2021}}</ref> Marcel Berger,<ref name=":1" /> (''{{Interlanguage link|L'Opinion (French weekly newspaper)|lt=L'Opinion|fr|L'Opinion (hebdomadaire français)}}''), Jean Samazeuilh<ref>{{Cite news|date=1927-11-04|title=Johnston Unranked: French Writer Can Find No Place for Tennis Star|work=The Montreal Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/421273715|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> (''{{Interlanguage link|Le Miroir des sports|lt=|fr|}}'') and Henri Cochet.<ref name=":1" />
In 1928 Lacoste lost his French title after a four-set loss in the final against Cochet. He took revenge by beating Cochet in the final of the Wimbledon Championships after having defeated Tilden in a five-set semifinal. The Challenge Round of the 1928 Davis Cup against the United States was played at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris on 27–29 July. The stadium was specifically constructed to host France's first defense of the Davis Cup.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Stadium|url=http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/rg_year_round/201408271409194686687.html|website=www.rolandgarros.com|publisher=Fédération française de tennis (FFT)}}</ref> Lacoste lost the first rubber in a five-set match to Tilden but France won the remaining rubbers to defeat the challengers 4–1 and retain the cup. Lacoste did not participate in the 1928 U.S. Championships.
Between 1923 and 1928 Lacoste played 51 Davis Cup matches for France in 26 ties and compiled a record of 32–8 in singles and 8–3 in doubles.
The only major championship Lacoste played in 1929 was the French and he won his seventh, and last, Grand Slam singles title after a tight five-set final against Jean Borotra.<ref name=chictribune/> Failing health, including respiratory disease, led to his withdrawal from competitive tennis in 1929. He would make a brief comeback at the 1932 French Championships, where he defeated reigning Wimbledon champion Sidney Wood in the third round, but lost in the fourth to Harry Lee.<ref name=cnn>{{cite web|author1=Tom Sweetman|title=Rene Lacoste: The lasting legacy of 'Le Crocodile'|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/11/sport/tennis/rene-lacoste-davis-cup-tennis/|publisher=CNN|date=11 September 2014}}</ref><ref name=davidson>{{cite book|last1=Davidson|first1=Owen|title=Lawn Tennis – The Great Ones|date=1970|publisher=Pelham Books|location=London|isbn=9780720703801|pages=34–38|oclc=99470}}</ref> He was the non-playing captain of the French Davis Cup team in 1932 and 1933.
The Four Musketeers were inducted simultaneously into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1976. In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Lacoste in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time.{{efn|name=kramer|Writing in 1979, Kramer considered the best player ever to have been either Don Budge (for consistent play) or Ellsworth Vines (at the height of his game). The next four best were, chronologically, Bill Tilden, Fred Perry, Bobby Riggs, and Pancho Gonzales. After these six came the "second echelon" of Rod Laver, Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, Gottfried von Cramm, Ted Schroeder, Jack Crawford, Pancho Segura, Frank Sedgman, Tony Trabert, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Björn Borg, and Jimmy Connors. He felt unable to rank Henri Cochet and René Lacoste accurately, but he felt they were among the very best.}}
In 1928 Lacoste wrote a book titled ''Lacoste on Tennis''.<ref name=nytobit/><ref>{{cite book|title=Lacoste on tennis|publisher=Worldcat|oclc=513431}}</ref>
There are numerous explanations of why Lacoste was originally nicknamed "The Crocodile." A 2006 New York Times obituary about Lacoste's son, Bernard, provides an apparently authoritative one. In the 1920s, supposedly, Lacoste made a bet with his team captain about whether he would win a certain match. The stakes were a suitcase he had seen in a Boston store; it was made of alligator skin. Following his victory, the American press dubbed him "The Alligator."{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} Later, René Lacoste's friend Robert George embroidered a crocodile onto a blazer that Lacoste wore for his matches.<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Bernard Lacoste, James Freedman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/style/23iht-obits.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 March 2006}}</ref><ref name="SportsRef">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ge/robert-george-2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417200731/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ge/robert-george-2.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Robert George Olympic Results |work=Sports Reference |access-date=10 May 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-07746, Berlin, Tennismatch Deutschland-Frankreich.jpg|thumb|upright=.8|Lacoste (right) with Otto Froitzheim]]
===Playing style=== Lacoste was primarily a baseline player who relied on control, accuracy, and deeply-placed groundstrokes to put pressure on his opponents. In addition he possessed an excellent passing shot and backhand slice. Nicknamed the 'Tennis Machine' for his methodical game and ability to avoid errors, he was known as a devoted and hard-working player, rather than a player with a great amount of natural talent.<ref name=chictribune>{{cite news|author1=William Shirer|title=Lacoste beats Borotra; Takes 3d French title|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1929/06/04/page/29/article/lacoste-beats-borotra-takes-3d-french-title|work=Chicago Tribune|date=4 June 1929|page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Quist|first1=Adrian|title=Tennis: The Greats 1920–1960|date=1984|publisher=ABC Enterprises and William Collins|location=Sydney|isbn=9780642527202|page=38|oclc=50097790}}</ref> His style was a complete contrast to that of his fellow Musketeer Henri Cochet.<ref name=robertson>{{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Max|title=The Encyclopedia of Tennis|year=1974|publisher=Allen & Unwin|location=London|isbn=9780047960420|pages=168–169, 276}}</ref> Lacoste was a studious tactician who meticulously analysed his opponents and kept detailed notes on their strengths and weaknesses.<ref name=collins/><ref name=robertson/>
==Business career== In 1933, Lacoste founded ''La Société Chemise Lacoste'' with André Gillier. The company produced the tennis shirt, also known as a "polo shirt," which Lacoste often wore when he was playing; this had a crocodile (often thought to be an alligator{{Citation needed|date=December 2025}}) embroidered on the chest. In 1963, Lacoste's son Bernard took over the management of the company.
In 1961, Lacoste created an innovation in racket technology by unveiling and patenting the first tubular steel tennis racket.<ref name=cnn/> At that time, wood rackets were the norm; the new version's strings were attached to the frame by a series of wires, which wrapped around the racket head. The steel-tube racket was stiffer, and imparted a greater force to the ball during a stroke. It was marketed in Europe under the Lacoste brand, but in the United States it was marketed by Wilson Sporting Goods. Pierre Darmon debuted the racket at Wimbledon in 1963, but it achieved critical acclaim and huge popularity as the Wilson T-2000, used by American tennis greats Billie Jean King and Jimmy Connors.<ref name=cnn/>
==Personal life== Rene Lacoste was born to Jeanne-Marie Magdeleine Larrieu-Let and Jean-Jules Lacoste.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lacoste.com/us/lemagazine-heritage-hb-rene.html|title=Happy Birthday René Lacoste! | LE MAGAZINE | LACOSTE|website=Le Magazine}}</ref> His maternal family is from Monein, in southwest France, the genealogy dating back to the 1700s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/gntstarlacoste?lang=en&n=paille&oc=0&p=marie|title=Family tree of Marie Paillé|website=Geneanet}}</ref>
On 30 June 1930 he married golfing champion Simone de la Chaume.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rene Lacoste, French Tennis Champion, to Take Golf Star As His Bride at Noon Monday|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pftPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4FQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3205%2C5642364|newspaper=The Evening Independent|date=13 June 1930|page=4–A}}</ref> Their daughter Catherine Lacoste was a champion golfer and president of the Golf Club Chantaco, founded by her mother, at a few kilometres from Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.
==Grand Slam finals==
===Singles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner-ups)===
{| class="sortable wikitable" ! Result ! Year ! style="width:170px;"|Championship ! Surface ! style="width:150px;"|Opponent ! style="width:170px;" class="unsortable"|Score |- | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss || 1924 || style="background:#cfc;"|Wimbledon || Grass || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || 1–6, 6–3, 1–6, 6–3, 4–6 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1925 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || 7–5, 6–1, 6–4 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1925 || style="background:#cfc;"|Wimbledon || Grass || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || 6–3, 6–3, 4–6, 8–6 |- | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss || 1926 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Cochet || 2–6, 4–6, 3–6 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1926 || style="background:#ccf;"|U.S. National Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || 6–4, 6–0, 6–4 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1927 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|USA}} Bill Tilden || 6–4, 4–6, 5–7, 6–3, 11–9 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1927 || style="background:#ccf;"|U.S. National Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA}} Bill Tilden || 11–9, 6–3, 11–9 |- | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss || 1928 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Cochet || 7–5, 3–6, 1–6, 3–6 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1928 || style="background:#cfc;"|Wimbledon || Grass || {{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Cochet || 6–1, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1929 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || 6–3, 2–6, 6–0, 2–6, 8–6 |}
===Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-ups)===
{| class="sortable wikitable" ! Result ! Year ! style="width:170px;"|Championship ! Surface !style="width:150px"|Partner !style="width:150px"|Opponents !style="width:160px" class="unsortable"|Score |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1925 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jacques Brugnon<br />{{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Cochet || 7–5, 4–6, 6–3, 2–6, 6–3 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1925 || style="background:#cfc;"|Wimbledon || Grass || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || {{flagicon|USA}} John Hennessey<br />{{flagicon|USA}} Raymond Casey || 6–4, 11–9, 4–6, 1–6, 6–3 |- | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss || 1927 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jacques Brugnon<br />{{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Cochet || 6–2, 2–6, 0–6, 6–1, 4–6 |- | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win || 1929 || style="background:#ebc2af;" |French Championships || Clay || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || {{flagicon|FRA}} Jacques Brugnon<br />{{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Cochet || 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 8–6 |}
===Mixed doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)===
{| class="sortable wikitable" ! Result ! Year ! style="width:170px;"|Championship ! Surface ! style="width:185px"|Partner ! style="width:185px"|Opponents ! style="width:110px" class="unsortable"|Score |- | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss || 1926 || style="background:#ccf;"|U.S. National Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman || {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Elizabeth Ryan <br /> {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean Borotra || 4–6, 5–7 |- | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss || 1927 || style="background:#ccf;"|U.S. National Championships || Grass || {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman || {{flagicon|GBR}} Eileen Bennett <br /> {{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Cochet || 2–6, 6–0, 3–6 |}
==Performance timeline== {{Performance key|short=yes|active=no}}
<small>(OF) only for French club members</small>
{| class=wikitable style=font-size:86%;text-align:center |- ! Tournament ! 1922 !! 1923 !! 1924 !! 1925 !! 1926 !! 1927 !! 1928 !! 1929 !! 1930 !! 1931 !! 1932 !{{Tooltip|SR|Strike rate}} !{{Tooltip|W–L|Win–loss}} !Win % |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="15" | '''Grand Slam tournaments''' |- | style="text-align:left;" bgcolor=efefef | {{nowrap|Australian Championships}} | A || A || A || A || A || A || A || A || A || A || A | bgcolor=efefef |0 / 0 | bgcolor=efefef |0–0 | bgcolor=efefef |– |- | style="text-align:left;" bgcolor=efefef | French Championships | colspan=3 style=color:#767676|OF | bgcolor=00ff00 | '''W''' | bgcolor=D8BFD8 | F | bgcolor=00ff00 | '''W''' | bgcolor=D8BFD8 | F | bgcolor=00ff00 | '''W''' | A | A | bgcolor=afeeee | 4R | bgcolor=efefef | 3 / 6 | bgcolor=efefef | 29–3 | bgcolor=efefef | 90.6 |- | style="text-align:left;" bgcolor=efefef | Wimbledon | bgcolor=afeeee | 1R | bgcolor=afeeee | 4R | bgcolor=D8BFD8 | F | bgcolor=00ff00 | '''W''' | A | bgcolor=yellow | SF | bgcolor=00ff00 | '''W''' | A || A || A || A | bgcolor=efefef | 2 / 6 | bgcolor=efefef | 28–4 | bgcolor=efefef | 87.5 |- | style="text-align:left;" bgcolor=efefef | U.S. Championships | A | bgcolor=afeeee | 2R | bgcolor=ffebcd | QF | bgcolor=ffebcd | QF | bgcolor=00ff00 | '''W''' | bgcolor=00ff00 | '''W''' | A || A || A || A || A | bgcolor=efefef | 2 / 5 | bgcolor=efefef | 19–3 | bgcolor=efefef | 86.4 |- style="background:#EFEFEF;" | style="text-align:left;" | '''Win–loss''' | 0–1 || 4–2 || 9–2 || 16–1 || 10–1 || 17–1 || 12–1 || 5–0 || || || 3–1 ! {{nowrap|7 / 17}} ! {{nowrap|76–10}} ! {{nowrap|88.4}} |- | colspan="15" align="left" |'''National representation''' |- | align=left| Olympics | colspan=2 style=color:#767676| NH | bgcolor=ffebcd | QF | colspan=8 style=color:#767676| Not held | 0 / 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 |}
==All-time record==
{| class="wikitable" |- !Tournament !Since !Record accomplished !Players matched |- |'''Grand Slam'''||1877||Youngest player to win 2 titles at 3 Grand Slams ||'''Stands alone''' |}
==See also== *List of male tennis players *Tennis records of All Time – Men's singles *List of Grand Slam men's singles champions
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{ATP}} * {{Tennis Hall of Fame}} * {{ITF profile}} * {{Davis Cup player}} * {{Wimbledon player}} * [http://www.lacoste.com Official site of Lacoste] * {{FMD designer|rene-lacoste}} * {{Olympics.com profile|jean-rene-lacoste|org_id=rene-lacoste|org_archive=20210429033112}} * {{Olympedia}}
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