Country (sports) USA Name Bertha Townsend Role Tennis player | US Open W (1888, 1889) Grand slams won (singles) 2 US Open W (1889) | |
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Full name Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin Born March 7, 1869
Philadelphia, PA, USA ( 1869-03-07 ) Died May 12, 1909, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
Int. Tennis HoF 1974 (member page) | ||
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) (1888 and 1889). She discovered the under-hand technique.
She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1974.
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