# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bertha-townsend
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:52:14.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bertha-townsend"
name: "Bertha Townsend"
slug: "bertha-townsend"
description: "Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin 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 in 1888 and 1889. She developed the underhand technique."
tagline: "US tennis player (1869-1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bertha_Townsend.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Tennis Players"
  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
  name: "Tennis Player"
  slug: "tennis-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1869-03-07"
deathDate: "1909-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6
  historical:           14.209216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bertha Townsend"
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    title: "Bertha Townsend"
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    title: "Bertha Townsend"
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    title: "Bertha Townsend"
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    title: "Bertha Townsend"
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    title: "Bertha Townsend"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bertha Townsend"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump