# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-kovacs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:24:58.453Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-kovacs"
name: "Frank Kovacs"
slug: "frank-kovacs"
description: "Frank Kovacs was an American amateur and professional tennis player in the mid-20th century. He won the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships singles title in 1941. He won the World Professional Championships tournament in 1945 in San Francisco. Kovacs was successful on clay and won the Great Lakes Professional Clay Court Championships near Chicago in 1946, defeating Riggs in the final, and five U.S. Professional Clay Court Championships from 1948 to 1953. Kovacs won U.S. Professional Championships or International Professional Championships at Cleveland in 1951. He also won the U.S. Professional Challenge Tour in 1947 against Bobby Riggs."
tagline: "American tennis player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Kovacs_1941_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1919-12-04"
deathDate: "1990"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.606408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%87"
    title: "Френк Ковач"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانك كوفاكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kovacs"
    title: "Frank Kovacs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kovacs"
    title: "Frank Kovacs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%86"
    title: "فرانک کواچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kovacs"
    title: "Frank Kovacs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%87%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Ковач, Фрэнк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kovacs"
    title: "Frank Kovacs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2740954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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