Phyllis Cox Berthoud

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 the Wimbledon singles draw was the first for an Indian woman.[1] She died in Warwick in 1975.

Phyllis Cox Berthoud
Personal information
Birth namePhyllis Hamilton Cox
Born8 April 1887
Bengal, British India
Died1975 (aged 88)
Warwick, Great Britain
Sport
CountryIndia India
SportTennis

References

  1. 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. 151–161. doi:10.4324/9781315533575-15. ISBN 9781315533575. S2CID 242873149.
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