# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lance-tingay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:29:46.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lance-tingay"
name: "Lance Tingay"
slug: "lance-tingay"
description: "Lance Tingay was a British sports journalist, historian, and author of several tennis books. For many years his annual ranking of top tennis players was \"the only one that counted\" before ATP rankings were introduced in 1973."
tagline: "British sports journalist and historian (1915–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1915-07-15"
deathDate: "1990-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.13
  momentum:             6.338797814207652
  historical:           8.965625333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Tingay"
    title: "Lance Tingay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "لانسى تينجاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Tingay"
    title: "Lance Tingay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Tingay"
    title: "Lance Tingay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Tingay"
    title: "Lance Tingay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ランス・ティンゲイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Tingay"
    title: "Lance Tingay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Tingay"
    title: "Lance Tingay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Tingay"
    title: "Lance Tingay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Тингей, Ланс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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