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| Full name | Pénélope Julie Vlasto Serpieri | ||||||||
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| Country (sports) | France | ||||||||
| Born | 8 August 1903 Marseille, France | ||||||||
| Died | 2 March 1985 (aged 81) Lausanne, Switzerland | ||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) | ||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 8 (1923) | ||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||
| French Open | SF (1925) | ||||||||
| Wimbledon | SF (1926) | ||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||
| French Open | W (1925, 1926) | ||||||||
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |||||||||
| French Open | F (1925) | ||||||||
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Pénélope Julie "Diddie" Vlasto Serpieri (French pronunciation: [ʒyli vlastɔ]; 8 August 1903 – 2 March 1985) was a female tennis player from France. She won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924 in women's singles,[1] losing the final to Helen Wills Moody. Vlasto also won the version of the French national championships in 1924 that was open only to French nationals. She was a doubles partner of Suzanne Lenglen in many doubles tournaments during the early 1920s.
She was born as Pénélope Julie Vlasto on 8 August 1903, in Marseille, France.
According to Wallis Myers of the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, Vlasto was ranked in the world top ten in 1923 and 1926, reaching a career high of world No. 8 in 1923.[2]
She married Jean-Baptiste Serpieri on 17 February 1927.
- ^ "Julie Vlasto". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ Collins, Bud (2008). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book. New York, N.Y: New Chapter Press. pp. 695, 701. ISBN 978-0-942257-41-0.