Pancho Gonzales
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Ricardo Alonso "Pancho" González, known sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player. He won 15 major singles titles, including two U.S. National Championships in 1948 and 1949, and 13
Gonzales in a tournament in Los Angeles, c. 1950
Pancho Segura (left) and Gonzales (right) at the Professional Championship in Noordwijk, Netherlands in August 1961.
Pancho Segura
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Francisco Olegario Segura Cano, better known as Pancho "Segoo" Segura, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador,
Pancho Gonzales
…community, the name "Pancho" is traditionally only given to individuals whose first name is "Francisco", as was the case with Gonzales' tennis rival, Pancho Segura. Gonzales reportedly was "haunted by race issues throughout his life...Six months before he died, he told his brother Ralph that he should have taken…
Segura in 1961
Segura, c. 1945
Segura, c. 1951
Billie Jean King, Pancho Segura, and Stan Smith at a tennis clinic in Los Angeles (1966).