Bertha Townsend

{{short description|American tennis player}}

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|fullname = Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin

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|birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1869|03|07}}

|birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin (née Townsend; March 7, 1869 – May 12, 1909) was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships (now U.S. Open) in 1888 and 1889.{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|authorlink=Bud Collins|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2016|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-937559-38-0|page=694|edition=3rd}} She developed the underhand technique.

She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1974.{{cite web|title=Hall of Famers - Bertha Townsend Toulmin|url=http://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/bertha-townsend-toulmin|publisher=ITF|accessdate=22 April 2012}}