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Pancho Segura at a tournament in Cincinnati in 1944.
Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images; thumbnail, United Press International, 1966
Pancho Segura
Died on November 18, 2017 at age 96
After surmounting a sickly and impoverished childhood in Ecuador, Segura used his blistering two-handed forehand, keen sense of court strategy and crowd-pleasing flair to become one of the world’s leading tennis players in the mid-20th century.
Notable Deaths 2017
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