Shortest Grand Slam title winner
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Posted: Apr 5, 2023
Updated: Aug 29, 2023
Henri Cochet had a remarkable tennis career, winning seven singles majors, and was ranked #1 for four straight years from 1928 to 1931. He accomplished all this at 5 feet, 6 inches, which is still the shortest anyone has ever won a Grand Slam title.
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Henri Cochet
With the figurative strength of an Adonis, the 5-foot-6, 145 pound Henri Cochet helped France dominate tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In his personal crusade, he won seven major singles championships and eight doubles and mixed doubles titles.
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The Tennis 128: No. 77, Henri Cochet
Henri Cochet was not “most players.” He was “an enfant terrible who love[d] to play with fire,” in the words of John Tunis.
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