- Born
- Died
- Birth nameFrancisco Olegario Segura
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Pancho Segura was born on June 20, 1921 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He was married to Virginia Smith and Beverley Moylan. He died on November 18, 2017 in Carlsbad, California, USA.
- SpousesVirginia Smith (divorced, 1 child)Beverley Moylan(? - November 18, 2017) (his death, 1 child)
- His father was a caretaker at a tennis club in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and 7-year-old Francisco began learning the game while working as a ballboy.
- He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1984.
- A case of rickets in childhood left him bowlegged for the rest of his life.
- During a three-year stretch that began in 1950, when he was ranked the No. 1 player in the world, he won three straight U.S. Pro singles titles on three different surfaces.
- If it wasn't for tennis, I'd be checking coconut trees in Ecuador.
- It doesn't take more than a racket and a heart to play this game, It's a great test of democracy in action. Me and you, man, in the arena. Just me and you, baby. Doesn't matter how much you have, or who your dad is, or if you went to Harvard or Yale, or whatever. Just me and you.
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