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Helga Niessen Masthoff

1941 - Today

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Helga Niessen Masthoff (née Niessen; born 11 November 1941) is a former tennis player from West Germany. Her best Grand Slam singles tournament was when she reached the 1970 French Open final, losing to Margaret Court in straight sets. She won the German Open three consecutive years from 1972 through 1974, beating Martina Navratilova in the 1974 final, in three sets. Masthoff was the runner-up at that tournament in 1971, losing to Billie Jean King. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helga Niessen Masthoff is the 374th most popular tennis player (down from 309th in 2019), the 5,300th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,123rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Helga Niessen Masthoff ranks 374 out of 1,569Before her are Jeļena Ostapenko, Fabrice Santoro, Bertha Townsend, Nathalie Tauziat, Mabel Cahill, and Margaret Scriven. After her are Brad Gilbert, Gail Chanfreau, Ken Fletcher, Kateryna Bondarenko, Tommy Robredo, and Jasmine Paolini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Helga Niessen Masthoff ranks 542Before her are Uta Frith, Graciela Borges, Luigi Ferrando, Irina Petrescu, Viktor Putyatin, and Ulf Sterner. After her are Takao Sakurai, Bobby Hutcherson, Jagjit Singh, Rubén Correa, Vyacheslav Vedenin, and Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helga Niessen Masthoff ranks 5,303 out of 7,253Before her are Florian Wirtz (2003), Max Streibl (1932), Walter Giller (1927), Johannes Schaaf (1933), Katharine Cornell (1893), and Tomer Sisley (1974). After her are Tobias Sammet (1977), Christopher Franke (1953), Josef Streb (1912), Curt Siodmak (1902), George Engelmann (1809), and Arnold Bode (1900).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Germany

Among tennis players born in Germany, Helga Niessen Masthoff ranks 13Before her are Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908), Michael Stich (1968), Oscar Kreuzer (1887), Heinrich Schomburgk (1885), Angelique Kerber (1988), and Tommy Haas (1978). After her are Sylvia Hanika (1959), Wilhelm Bungert (1939), Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (1982), Dustin Brown (1984), Tatjana Maria (1987), and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (1963).