This tennis player was named Ricardo Alonso Gonzalez but better known as Pancho.
He was born in Los Angeles on May 9 1928 and died in Las Vegas on July 3 1955.
His family was Mexican by descent.
He taught himself to play tennis at the age of twelve when he received his first racket and as a teenager had a number of 'run ins' with the police and truant officers.
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