Pancho Segura

Pancho Segura, born Francisco Olegario Segura Cano in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 20 June 1921, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. He moved to the United States in 1940, played collegiate tennis at the University of Miami, and later became a citizen of both countries. Known for a double-handed forehand, he won the Cleveland and Forest Hills US Pro and International Pro titles on three different surfaces from 1950 to 1952, won the inaugural professional Tournament of Champions at Sydney in 1957, and was ranked the top US professional in 1950, 1951 and 1952. He died on 18 November 2017.