TENNIS PLAYER

Pancho Segura

1921 - 2017

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Francisco Olegario Segura Cano (June 20, 1921 – November 18, 2017), better known as Pancho "Segoo" Segura, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, but moved to the United States in 1940. Throughout his amateur career he was listed by the USTA as a "foreign" player resident in the U.S. As a professional player, he was referred to as the "Ecuadorian champ who now lives in New York City". After acquiring U.S. citizenship in 1991 at the age of seventy, Segura was a citizen of both countries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pancho Segura is the 295th most popular tennis player (up from 302nd in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Ecuador (up from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ecuadorean Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Pancho Segura ranks 295 out of 1,569Before him are Geraldine Beamish, Frew McMillan, Rodney Heath, Fernando Verdasco, Nikolay Davydenko, and Béla von Kehrling. After him are John Doeg, Albert Costa, Anne Smith, Andrey Rublev, Anita Lizana, and Kate Gillou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Pancho Segura ranks 346Before him are Fred Buscaglione, Liz Smith, Michel Bonnevie, Abdul Qadir al-Badri, Richard Egan, and Dominique Mbonyumutwa. After him are Petter Hugsted, Steve Allen, Kjell Rosén, Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Spartaco Bandinelli, and Diana Barrymore. Among people deceased in 2017, Pancho Segura ranks 409Before him are Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Buchi Emecheta, Santiago Vernazza, Friedel Rausch, Yambo Ouologuem, and Roy Dotrice. After him are Alina Janowska, Armand Gatti, Dina Merrill, Paavo Lonkila, Vinod Khanna, and Catherine Hardy Lavender.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, Pancho Segura ranks 38 out of 147Before him are Antonio Valencia (1985), Eugenio Espejo (1747), Enner Valencia (1989), Matilde Hidalgo (1889), Byron Moreno (1969), and Vicente Ramón Roca (1792). After him are Isidro Ayora (1879), Lucio Gutiérrez (1957), Rosalía Arteaga (1956), Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río (1893), Fabián Alarcón (1947), and José María Urvina (1808).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Ecuador

Among tennis players born in Ecuador, Pancho Segura ranks 2Before him are Andrés Gómez (1960). After him are Nicolás Lapentti (1976), and Irina Falconi (1990).