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Tennis Legend Dies




BIARRITZ, France -- Jean Borotra, one of France's legendary "Four Musketeers" tennis champions who dominated the sport for 10 years in the 1920s and '30s, has died. He was 95.


Borotra's family reported that he died Sunday at his home in Arbonne, near this resort on France's southern Atlantic coast. No cause of death was given.


The death leaves 90-year-old Rene Lacoste, famed for his alligator-emblem sportswear, as the sole survivor of the feared foursome. Jacques Brunon died in 1978, and Henri Cochet in 1987. Borotra, dubbed "The Bouncing Basque," won the Wimbledon men's singles in 1924 and 1926, lost three times to other musketeers, and won the doubles in 1925.




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