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...fisted backhand, with jackhammer force, pounding down an opponent with his nonstop attack. Small-bodied, he gets his power from outsize muscular shoulders and a swing calibrated to bang the ball on the rise, a technique first taught him by his mother, Gloria, and later stressed by Pancho Segura, the wily pro who has been Connors' instructor for the past six years. "Never let a ball come to you" is Segura's First Law. Charge the ball, he insists, lean into it and meet it on the rise. That attack tactic maximizes power and control and allows the player...
...Pancho Segura says that Court will learn the hard way what he and other veteran players know from long experience: "Never bet against Riggs." There was the time in 1939, for example, when the cocksure Riggs went to London, bet the bookies that he would win the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon-and went home $100,000 richer. Before one match with Don Budge, he strolled among the box seats placing bets with film stars and then went out and won in four sets. John Faunce, who used to hustle $20,000 to $30,000 every spring playing...
...addition to the white coral beach, Obolensky offered for diversion gambling at the casino until 6 a.m. In the afternoon, he organized an exhibition tennis match, pitting Pancho Segura and Dina Merrill against Pancho Gonzales and Janet Leigh. And when George (Paper Lion) Plimpton leaped onto the court with a cry of "Tennis, anyone?" the Beautiful People sensibly took it as a signal to leap back into their limousines and depart...
...SOCORRO GIRON DE SEGURA...
...Laver has more equipment than Budge ever had. He would have beaten Budge." Professional Promoter Jack Kramer, who as an amateur got halfway to a grand slam in 1947, takes a somewhat cooler view: "Right now he's not in Budge's class. Sedgman, Gonzales, Hoad, Rosewall, Segura, even Trabert, who's 32, could beat Laver. When Laver turns pro, he's going to get beaten just like every other amateur champion who turned pro. I think I was the last guy who turned pro and won right away." At Forest Hills the word was that...