# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helga-niessen-masthoff
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:43:49.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helga-niessen-masthoff"
name: "Helga Niessen Masthoff"
slug: "helga-niessen-masthoff"
description: "Helga Niessen Masthoff is a former tennis player from West Germany. Her best Grand Slam singles tournament was when she reached the 1970 French Open final, losing to Margaret Court in straight sets. She won the German Open three consecutive years from 1972 through 1974, beating Martina Navratilova in the 1974 final, in three sets. Masthoff was the runner-up at that tournament in 1971, losing to Billie Jean King."
tagline: "West German tennis player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helga_Niessen-Masthoff_(1965).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Tennis Players"
  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
  name: "Tennis Player"
  slug: "tennis-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1941-11-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.14
  momentum:             12.02247191011236
  historical:           13.57156533333333
  currentAttention:     7.223113964686998
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga_Masthoffov%C3%A1"
    title: "Helga Masthoffová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Helga Masthoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga_Masthoff"
    title: "Helga Masthoff"
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    title: "Helga Masthoff"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump