Tennis Legends Pancho Gonzales

American Richard Pancho Gonzales (1928-1995) won two U. S. championships and then turned pro in 1949 aged 21. He spent all of the peak years of his career in the pro ranks and was the top tennis pro from the mid 1950s until the early 1960s. When the open era arrived, Pancho was in his forties but won the longest match ever played at that point at Wimbledon 1969 (a match surpassed in length by Isner and Mahut in 2010). He retired in 1973.