Word: segura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...
Married. Francisco ("Pancho") Segura, 26, excitable Ecuadorian tennist, whose two-handed technique made him the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles championship (1946); and Virginia Spencer Smith, 20, blonde Forest Hills, N.Y. tennis fan; in Manhattan...
...first four months (or 35% of the take, whichever is larger), to get him to go gunning for Bobby Riggs. Another proposition comes from a Chicago promoter named Jack Harris, who says he will meet Crosby's offer and go higher. Harris also wants Schroeder and Pancho Segura as a supporting feature: Crosby prefers a second billing of ex-Lady Champions Pauline Betz and Alice Marble...
After that, he might get to thinking about that cocky Bobby Riggs. During the past seven years, Big Jake and Cocky Bobby have often played against each other in doubles, sometimes for big side bets. Last fall at the Los Angeles Club, Big Jake (teamed with Segura) won $1,000 from Riggs (teamed with Frank Parker). But, by unspoken agreement, the two have never so much as suggested playing singles against each other since 1941-even for fun. When & if they do, it will be in Madison Square Garden, before a packed house, for important money. For Jake Kramer knows...
With the United States Davis Cup squad in Australia, the remaining sixteen top men in the country including the two-handed racquet-wielder Pancho Segura, Bob Falkenburg, Seymour Greenberg, and Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...