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...feature matches in the Longwood Cricket Club Tennis Tournament in Brookline yesterday afternoon, Al Everts, Varsity number one man and one of the outstanding local entrants in the tournament, succumbed to the two-handed forehand and tricky dropsliots of Francisco Segura, Ecuador champion and top rated player in the foreign seedings...
...Segura playing his first round match, had too much experience and speed for Everts and he won in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. Today he will meet Dave Freeman, California tennis player and national badminton champion...
...grass court, on which the match was played, was definitely favorable to Segura's game. The low bounce and skidding tendency of the ball made his cannonball two-handed forehand, which many observers have called the best they have ever seen, very difficult to return...
...Australian Davis Cuppers Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich both held their racquets like baseball bats. McGrath used a two-handed grip for his backhand. Bromwich served with his right hand, switched to his left for shots on that side, used both hands for shots on his right side. Pancho Segura's two-fisted attack is less complicated, more spectacular. He uses both hands for both forehand and backhand (with a singlehanded follow-through on his backhand). Instead of slapping the ball, as Bromwich does, Pancho swings like Joe Di Maggio...
...Little Segura's lusty swings are deceptive: a shot that seems to start as a forehand drive sometimes floats over the net for a drop shot. A passionate enthusiast, twinkletoed and tireless, he yells Ay! (Alas) when he gets excited. Waiting for a serve, he jumps up & down with impatient impatience. He is fun to watch, and by last week Ecuador's idol was fast becoming the latest darling of U.S. tennis fans...