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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, although he never represented the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pancho Segura has received more than 346,140 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Pancho Segura is the 173rd most popular tennis player (down from 126th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Ecuador (down from 27th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ecuadorean Tennis Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Pancho Segura ranks 173 out of 1,148. Before him are Bill Johnston, David Nalbandian, Kei Nishikori, Victoria Azarenka, Barbara Schett, and Henri Leconte. After him are Major Ritchie, Nikolay Davydenko, Otto Froitzheim, Marcelo Ríos, Molla Mallory, and Lena Rice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Pancho Segura ranks 305. Before him are Egon Jönsson, Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Norman Joseph Woodland, John Russell, Eusebio Castigliano, and Abdul Qadir al-Badri. After him are Joe Fagan, Wu Xueqian, Kathleen Antonelli, Ben Bradlee, Nando González, and Abu Sayeed Chowdhury. Among people deceased in 2017, Pancho Segura ranks 351. Before him are Geoff Nicholls, Patrick Nève, Vladimir Shainsky, Santiago Vernazza, Vladimir Makanin, and Sam Panopoulos. After him are Betty Cuthbert, Joseph Bologna, Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, Aleksei Petrenko, Michael Ogio, and Girija Devi.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, Pancho Segura ranks 32 out of 126. Before him are Abdalá Bucaram (1952), Eugenio Espejo (1747), Andrés Gómez (1960), Byron Moreno (1969), Guillermo Rodríguez (1924), and José de la Mar (1778). After him are Matilde Hidalgo (1889), Osvaldo Hurtado (1939), Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906), Antonio José González Zumárraga (1925), Vicente Ramón Roca (1792), and Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río (1893).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Ecuador

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

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