Phyllis Cox Berthoud

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Phyllis Cox Berthoud (8 April 1887 - 1975) was a tennis player from unified Bengal, India. She participated in the Indian Open tennis tournaments between 1918 and 1923. Her entry into a Grand Slam event in 1920 was the first for an Indian woman.[1] She died in Warwick in 1975.

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  1. Pal, Suvam (5 February 2019). "Indian tennis: Past perfect, present continuous, future tense". In Lake, Robert J.; Osborne, Carol A. (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. Routledge. pp. 151–161. doi:10.4324/9781315533575-15. ISBN 9781315533575.