Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long & Patient. They quickly learned otherwise-and so did Gimeno's fellow pros. In his first professional match, the lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 160 Ibs.) Spaniard defeated Peru's Alex Olmedo. He then won 16 of his next 24 matches, earned the right to meet Pancho Gonzales in a 29-match, head-to-head contest for the professional championship of the world. On court, Gimeno bears a startling resemblance to the young Bill Tilden. His ground strokes are long, faultless and patient. His big serve darts and leaps. His apparent lethargy masks lightning-quick reflexes. Says Australia...
...superbly conditioned athlete, Gimeno is unruffled by the rigors of the professional tour. He invariably falls asleep as soon as he sinks into an airplane seat, voraciously gobbles steaks and vitamin pills. He is also hungry to improve his game. "From Pancho Gonzales," says Gimeno, "I learn to throw the ball further in front of me when I serve, so I get more power. From Lew Hoad I learn to hit the ball harder. But always from myself I learn to fight like a lion." Gimeno is assured of a lion's share of the kitty: Promoter Kramer...
...logical doormat, with the only starter on opening certain to be in the lineup by The Reds have twice as many players. In Vada Pinson and Robinson they boast two of an outfield, but the rest the squad would have trouble a good AAA club. For the Tony Taylor, Pancho and Tony Gonzales are all capable of nudging .300, and with a little luck a deep array of mediocre rookies and sophomores might stand up well enough through the dog-days of August to cause the older pros some uneasiness...
Born. To Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 32, durable old pro of Jack Kramer's play-for-pay tennis troupe, and Madelyn Darrow, 25, Miss Rheingold of 1958: twin girls, their first children (Pancho has three by a previous marriage); in Los Angeles...
...mouth like a long, amusing sentence, and a silly little mustache that sets it off in tiny, hairy quotation marks. From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego he is almost as popular as orange soda, and in Mexico he is the greatest national hero since Pancho Villa. His movies make millions, his baggy-pants burlesque of the bullfight draws the biggest crowds at any corrida, his tongue-tied twaddling and self-swallowing sentences have added a new verb (cantinflear) to the Spanish language...