Suzanne Schmitt

Suzanne Schmitt, born Suzanne Josette Marguerite Schmitt on 18 October 1928 and died on 27 October 2019, was a French tennis player who was active on tour in the 1950s and 1960s. She reached the women's doubles final of the 1954 French Championships with Maud Galtier, where they lost in three sets to Maureen Connolly and Nell Hall Hopman, and in 1955 she was a women's doubles quarter-finalist at Wimbledon. She began competing under her husband's name in the mid-1950s after marrying the French engineer Denys Le Besnerais, and she was distantly related to the tennis player Nanette le Besnerais.