Word: segura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's intercollegiate tennis interests will be represented by Don S. Willner '47 and Ed L. Slater '47, when they participate in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Matches at Elizabeth, New Jersey, tomorrow through Sunday. Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the bow-legged Ecuadorian with the mean two-handed forehand, is the defending champion. He is currently enrolled in Miami College...
...Tennis Championships, which promised to be a bust, turned out to be a pretty good show-largely because several top-ranking players in uniform wangled unexpected furloughs* and played unexpectedly good tennis. One of them, Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer, played well enough to upset the pre-tournament favorite, Francisco Segura, two-fisted pride of Ecuador. Still another, Lieut, (j.g.) Joe Hunt, beat Kramer in the finals...
Ecuador Dynamo Segura had swept every tournament this summer; his opponent, 22-year-old Coast Guardsman Kramer, former Men's Doubles titleholder, not only had not seen a grass court all year but had suddenly developed a case of what Ellsworth Vines called "ptomaine nerves" (nervous stomach). Lank, lackadaisical Jack Kramer slouched around the court; pigeontoed, muttering, gesticulating Segura crouched like a predatory biped, gave everything Kramer hit a run for its money. Kramer, rejecting the tempo agitato, dropped the first set 2-6, suddenly found the touch and raced through the next three sets...
Half the circuit-swank Southampton, suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes...
Parker's dark sunglasses, grave face and deliberate air help his reputation as a "colorless" player. Tennis connoisseurs found nothing insipid in his management of the first two sets against Segura. Hitting with perfect length on both forehand and backhand, using always the exactly appropriate stroke, and subtly increasing the pace and angle of his shots when Segura left the court slightly open, Parker made just seven errors in two sets. Segura seemed lucky to get one game...