Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet and René Lacoste helped win the Davis Cup six times. Roland Garros was built for their title defense. By Cindy Shmerler When Rafael Nadal won his 13th ...

The Longwood Cricket Club, located just outside Boston, was the site of the first Davis Cup competition in 1900. ... René Lacoste's won two Davis Cups with Team France in 1927 and 1928.

The history of the Lacoste clothing line dates back to the 1920s, when the American press nicknamed Jean Rene Lacoste 'The Crocodile' after he… Open navigation The Roar ...

Established in 1933 by pioneering tennis player Rene Lacoste, back when athlete-founded brands were certainly not a thing, ..

Recently, friends and I were discussing Izod and Lacoste. Most of us recall wearing Izod shirts with the alligator logo in elementary school, but one of my friends swears that Izod never used the ...

Rene Lacoste was the world’s top-ranked player in 1926 and 1927 and won seven major singles titles: Wimbledon twice, the U.S. Open twice and the French Open three times. Bernard Lacoste was born ...

The nickname apparently originated when Rene Lacoste admired a crocodile suitcase in a store window and his Davis Cup captain promised to buy it for him if he won an important upcoming match.

It began in 1925, when Rene Lacoste, the founder of the brand, made a bet with Pierre Gillou, the French Davis Team Captain, the prize being a crocodile skin suitcase that Rene had spotted in the ...

René Lacoste was a champion tennis player, and in 1927 was ranked number one in the world. During his tennis career, he won seven Grand Slam championship tournaments but today he is better known as ...