Word: segura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's best hope at Wimbledon had failed, but a little-known fellow Californian-23-year-old Tom Brown of San Francisco-still had a chance. He upset Ecuador's flashy Pancho Segura last week, now had to get past (among others) Czechoslovakia's sizzling Jaroslav Drobny and France's veteran, 6 ft. 7 in. Yvon Petra to win. The U.S. women, led by Pauline Betz and Margaret Osborne, were still going strong...
...last week, Ecuador's excitable Francisco ("Pancho") Segura was all but blown off the slippery court at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. Then Pancho, who feels very badly when sports writers call him "the best Grade B player in tennis," steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a "Bravo, Pancho." In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles...
...erratic virtuosity survived four rounds. The semifinals drew the biggest crowd (8,000) in three years, and they cheered as madly as a mannerly tennis crowd could for Elwood Cooke's brave but hopeless stand against methodical Frankie Parker. In the other semifinals, Ecuador s pigeon-toed Pancho Segura learned once again that his two-fisted drives and self-satisfied "Bravos" were no match for Bill Talbert's power strokes. Talbert won easily at the cost of a twisted knee...
Seville Cathedral, second largest in the world,* was ready. So was Cardinal Segura, who would tie the knot. But the climax would not come until Dom Duarte, Duke of Bragança, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, could arrive from Switzerland. Wartime traveling is so uncertain...
...start, most experts picked Ecuador's flashy Francisco ("Pancho") Segura as the ultimate winner. Pigeon-toed Pancho of the two-handed drive delighted the crowd with audible pep talks to himself in Spanish, with dramatic gestures of disgust when he flubbed a point. But Pancho got a head cold, and in the semifinals a headache; there he came up against Indianapolis' lanky, steady Bill Talbert, 4-F (for diabetes). A sound stylist with good ground strokes and a solid net game, Talbert drove Pancho to distraction and defeat in five long sets...