# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-sturgess
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:01:12.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-sturgess"
name: "Eric Sturgess"
slug: "eric-sturgess"
description: "Eric William Sturgess was a South African male tennis player and winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles. He also reached the singles final of a Grand Slam tournament three times but never won. Sturgess was ranked World No. 6 by John Olliff of The Daily Telegraph in both 1948 and 1949."
tagline: "South African tennis player (1920–2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Tennis Players"
  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
  name: "Tennis Player"
  slug: "tennis-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1920-05-10"
deathDate: "2004-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.98
  momentum:             10.94488188976378
  historical:           15.31076666666667
  currentAttention:     5.249343832020997
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ерік Стерджесс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إريك ستارجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايريك ستيرچيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ерик Стърджис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Sturgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sturgess"
    title: "Eric Sturgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sturgess"
    title: "Eric Sturgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sturgess"
    title: "Eric Sturgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اریک استورگس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Sturgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Sturgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "エリック・スタージェス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sturgess"
    title: "Eric Sturgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Стерджесс, Эрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Sturgess"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1115955"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump