RENE LACOSTE, the last survivor of the `four musketeers' who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and won the Davis Cup for France every year from 1927 to 1932, has died aged 92.

The French star, nicknamed `The Crocodile' as a player, was also the designer of a polo shirt which carried his name and was recognised around the world by its trademark crocodile over the left breast.

Lacoste and fellow musketeers Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon swept the Wimbledon singles title six times in succession from 1924 to 1929.

He personally won the title in 1925 and 1928 and also took the US Open in 1926 and 1927 when ranked world number one Lacoste also won the French Open three times in 1925, 1927 and 1929.