![French Tennis Star of the 1920s, Jean Rene Lacoste, visits Bendix, September 1964 | Ann Arbor District Library French Tennis Star of the 1920s, Jean Rene Lacoste, visits Bendix, September 1964 | Ann Arbor District Library](https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N012_1258_001.jpg)
French Tennis Star of the 1920s, Jean Rene Lacoste, visits Bendix, September 1964 | Ann Arbor District Library
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Why was Rene Lacoste called “crocodile”? | Useless Daily: Facts, Trivia, News, Oddities, Jokes and more!
![The Rene Lacoste Style: Kapferer, Patricia and Gaston-Breton, Tristan: 9782915535709: Amazon.com: Books The Rene Lacoste Style: Kapferer, Patricia and Gaston-Breton, Tristan: 9782915535709: Amazon.com: Books](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GtllTY2EL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg)
The Rene Lacoste Style: Kapferer, Patricia and Gaston-Breton, Tristan: 9782915535709: Amazon.com: Books
TennisPAL App - René Lacoste, the famous French tennis player and businessman was born on this day in 1904. He was nicknamed ""the Crocodile"" because of how he dealt with his opponents;
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