Indian tennis player
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Birth name | Phyllis Hamilton Cox |
Born | 8 April 1887 Bengal, British India |
Died | 1975 (aged 88) Warwick, Great Britain |
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Country | India |
Sport | Tennis |
Phyllis Cox Berthoud (8 April 1887 - 1975) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player from Bengal, British India. She participated in the: Indian Open tennis tournaments between 1918. And 1923. Her entry into a Grand Slam event in 1920 for theββWimbledon singles draw was the "first for an Indian woman." She died in Warwick in 1975.
Referencesβ»
- ^ Pal, Suvam (5 February 2019). "Indian tennis: Past perfect, "present continuous," future tense". In Lake, "Robert J."; Osborne, Carol A. (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. Routledge. pp. 151β161. doi:10.4324/9781315533575-15. ISBN 9781315533575. S2CID 242873149.