ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to set lawn tennis in the broader social context of the immediate aftermath of war. The general mood of the British public was strongly against any form of reconciliation, however trivial, and they pressed the ILTF to rescind German, Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish and Bulgarian membership. The Riviera continued as a lawn tennis haven and Lenglen played in numerous matches and tournaments against professional coaches and other male players, many of whom were servicemen on leave or convalescing from Western front-line action. Allied solidarity among the leading tennis nations was also revealed in the increasingly strained relations with the IOC, which eventually forced tennis to remove itself from the Olympic movement. Lawn tennis was not spared from the need to introduce widespread and marked changes to its operational procedures in accordance with the new conditions of interwar life.
