Full name | Pénélope Julie Vlasto Serpieri | ||||||||
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Country (sports) | France | ||||||||
Born | Marseille, France | 8 August 1903||||||||
Died | 2 March 1985 Lausanne, Switzerland | (aged 81)||||||||
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 the American 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 women's 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.