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.
Jack Kramer
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John Albert Kramer was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, and a pioneer promoter who helped drive the sport towards professionalism at the elite level. Kramer also ushered in the serve-
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…of the 1940s. The headquarters for tennis activity was the Los Angeles Tennis Club, which actively trained other top players such as the youthful Jack Kramer. During that time, the head of the Southern California Tennis Association, and the most powerful man in California tennis was Perry T. Jones. Jones…
Tony Trabert and Jack Kramer in 1955
Kramer with his son David in 1947