Pancho Segura, Former Tennis Champ, Dies At 96

By Harrison Smith, San Francisco Chronicle: Local
Tue, 11/21/2017 - 3:37pm

Pancho Segura, a bowlegged tennis player who rose from poverty in Ecuador to become one of the finest tennis players of the 1940s and ’50s, sporting a powerful two-handed forehand and a tactical brilliance that he later employed as the coach for a young Jimmy Connors, died Nov. 18 at his home in Carlsbad, San Diego County.

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Topics: jimmy connors nov carlsbad san diego county parkinson s spencer segoo segura tennis

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