Sport: Bravo, Pancho

For one set last week, Ecuador’s excitable Francisco (“Pancho”) Segura was all but blown off the slippery court at Manhattan’s Seventh Regiment Armory. Then Pancho, who feels very badly when sports writers call him “the best Grade B player in tennis,” steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a “Bravo, Pancho.” In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles. The score: 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.