Phyllis Cox Berthoud

{{short description|Indian tennis player}}

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{{Infobox sportsperson

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| name = Phyllis Cox Berthoud

| birth_name = Phyllis Hamilton Cox

| birth_date = 8 April 1887

| birth_place = Bengal, British India

| death_date = 1975 (aged 88)

| death_place = Warwick, Great Britain

| country = {{flagicon|IND|British}} India

| sport = Tennis

}}

Phyllis Cox Berthoud (8 April 1887 - 1975) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player from Bengal, British India. She participated in the Indian Open tennis tournaments between 1918 and 1923. Her entry into a Grand Slam event in 1920 for the Wimbledon singles draw was the first for an Indian woman.{{Cite book|last=Pal|first=Suvam|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lf-GDwAAQBAJ&dq=Phyllis+Cox+Berthoud+tennis&pg=PT178|chapter=Indian tennis: Past perfect, present continuous, future tense|date=2019-02-05|pages=151–161|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781315533575|doi=10.4324/9781315533575-15|title=Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics|s2cid=242873149 |editor-first1=Robert J.|editor-last1= Lake|editor-first2=Carol A.|editor-last2= Osborne}} She died in Warwick in 1975.

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