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Bertha Townsend

1869 - 1909

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Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin (née Townsend; March 7, 1869 – May 12, 1909) was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships (now U.S. Open) in 1888 and 1889. She developed the underhand technique. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bertha Townsend is the 370th most popular tennis player (up from 422nd in 2019), the 9,637th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,459th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Bertha Townsend ranks 370 out of 1,569. Before her are Rex Hartwig, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Harold Hackett, Elizabeth Ryan, Jeļena Ostapenko, and Fabrice Santoro. After her are Nathalie Tauziat, Mabel Cahill, Margaret Scriven, Helga Niessen Masthoff, Brad Gilbert, and Gail Chanfreau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Bertha Townsend ranks 150. Before her are Bill Haywood, Booth Tarkington, Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf, Harry Stafford, Charley Grapewin, and Mehmet Emin Yurdakul. After her are Robert S. Woodworth, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, George Caridia, Tom Kiely, Ellen Hansell, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Among people deceased in 1909, Bertha Townsend ranks 93. Before her are Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, William Powell Frith, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Petre S. Aurelian, Robert Hausmann, and Lina Morgenstern. After her are Mary MacKillop, Madan Lal Dhingra, Peter Lesgaft, Francis Marion Crawford, Edward Everett Hale, and Sarah Orne Jewett.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bertha Townsend ranks 9,639 out of 20,380. Before her are Camryn Manheim (1961), Tress MacNeille (1951), Wesley Ruggles (1889), Frank Weston Benson (1862), Patricia Morison (1915), and Stanton T. Friedman (1934). After her are George O'Brien (1899), Gardner Dozois (1947), Edward Angle (1855), Jimmie Vaughan (1951), George Peter Alexander Healy (1813), and Pat Monahan (1969).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Bertha Townsend ranks 85. Before her are Ellsworth Vines (1911), Taylor Fritz (1997), Marty Riessen (1941), Tracy Austin (1962), Harold Hackett (1878), and Elizabeth Ryan (1892). After her are Brad Gilbert (1961), Chuck McKinley (1941), Alice Marble (1913), Paula Badosa (1997), Pam Shriver (1962), and John Isner (1985).

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