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 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Pancho Segura is the 302nd most popular tennis player (down from 173rd in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Ecuador (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ecuadorean Tennis Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pancho Seguras by language

Over the past year Pancho Segura has had the most page views in the with 35,628 views, followed by Spanish (8,700), and Italian (2,493). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (156.26%), Serbo-Croatian (66.67%), and Slovak (66.58%)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Pancho Segura ranks 302 out of 1,569. Before him are Jonas Björkman, Anita Lizana, Manuela Maleeva, Wollmar Boström, John Doeg, and Mal Anderson. After him are Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, Toni Nadal, Nancy Richey, Josef Maleček, Marin Čilić, and Yvon Petra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Pancho Segura ranks 375. Before him are Rufina Gasheva, Paul Barth, Lloyd Bentsen, Mamie Till, Petter Hugsted, and Regina Bianchi. After him are Prvoslav Mihajlović, Seymour Benzer, Sam Tingle, Giuseppe Moro, Julia Hartwig, and Yevgeni Babich. Among people deceased in 2017, Pancho Segura ranks 436. Before him are Rosa Taikon, Charlie Murphy, Eugène Parlier, Della Reese, Peter Sarstedt, and Françoise Héritier. After him are Raúl Córdoba, Nicolae Lupescu, Kjell Grede, Laurynas Stankevičius, Yuriy Poyarkov, and Peter Hall.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, Pancho Segura ranks 51 out of 147. Before him are José María Urvina (1808), Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río (1893), Luis Cordero Crespo (1833), Alfredo Baquerizo (1859), Antonio José González Zumárraga (1925), and Camilo Ponce Enríquez (1912). After him are Felipe Caicedo (1988), Carlos María de la Torre (1873), Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola (1888), Jorge Enrique Adoum (1926), Otto Arosemena (1925), and José Luis Tamayo (1858).

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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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