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Voici le texte de l'article anglais sur Pancho. Je vais essayer de le traduire petit a petit en francais. Veuillez corriger mon francais, s'il vous plait! Hayford Peirce 6 février 2006 à 22:39 (CET)
Ricardo Alonso González (9 mai 1928 – 3 juillet 1995), who was generally known as Pancho Gonzales, was the dominant male tennis player in the world for most of the 1950s and early-1960s. During that period, he played as a professional. Completely self-taught, he was also a successful amateur player in the late-1940s, twice winning the United States Championships. The tempestuous Gonzales is widely considered to be one of the all-time great tennis players. Prior to Open era, he was considered by most observers to be the greatest player in the history of the game.
[modifier] Career
[modifier] As an amateur
As a mostly unknown 20-year-old, Gonzales had a national ranking of number 17 when he went to his first United States Championships at Forest Hills in 1948. He was seeded 8th in the tournament but won it fairly easily with his powerful serve-and-volley game. The following year he did badly at Wimbledon and was derided for his performance by some of the press. A British sportswriter called him a "cheese champion" and, because of his name, his doubles partner of the time, Frank Parker, began to call him "Gorgonzales", after Gorgonzola, the Italian cheese. This was eventually shortened to "Gorgo", the nickname by which he was later known by his colleagues on the professional tour.
In 1949, Gonzales returned to the American championships and, to the surprise of many observers, repeated his victory of the previous year, beating Ted Schroeder, the #1 seed, in a five-set final. Finishing both 1948 and 1949 as the number-one ranked U.S. amateur, Gonzales also won both his singles matches in the Davis Cup finals against Australia. He then turned professional.
[modifier] As a professional
Gonzales was badly beaten in his first year on the professional tour by the reigning king of professional tennis, Jack Kramer, and then mostly disappeared from public view. He continued to win occasional professional tournaments, however, defeating his old nemesis Kramer several times in the process. In 1953, Kramer, by now also a promoter, organized a tour of Australia featuring himself, Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor, and Pancho Segura. Troubled by a bad back, however, Kramer signed Gonzales to replace him. In the subsequent matches Gonzales handily beat Sedgman, a 7-time Grand Slam singles winner, and annihilated McGregor, the 1952 Australian Open champion. Playing to dwindling audiences because of Gonzales's clear superiority, Kramer then enlisted yet another a former Australian champion, Dinny Pails to play Gonzales. Gonzales beat him 47 matches to 7 and by the end of 1954 had clearly established himself as the top player in the world.
Gonzales was now the dominant player in the men's game for about the next ten years, beating such tennis greats as Sedgman, Tony Trabert, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Mal Anderson, and Ashley Cooper on a regular basis. In that period, he won the United States Professional Championship eight times and the Wembley professional title in London four times, plus beating, in head-to-head tours, all of the best amateurs who turned pro. During this time Gonzales was known for his fiery will to win, his cannonball serve, and his all-conquering net game, a combination so potent that the rules on the professional tour were briefly changed in the 1950s to prohibit him from advancing to the net immediately after serving. He won even so, and the rules were changed back.
Much of Gonzales's competitive fire derived from the anger he felt at being paid much less than the players he was regularly beating. In 1955, for instance, he was paid $15,000 while his touring opponent, the recently turned professional Tony Trabert, had a contract for $80,000.
So great was his ability to raise his game to the highest possible level, particularly in the fifth set of long matches, that Allen Fox has said that he never once saw Gonzales lose service when serving for the set or the match.
[modifier] Open tennis
Most of Gonzales's career as a professional fell before the start of the Open era of tennis in 1968, and was he therefore ineligible to compete at the Grand Slam events between 1949 (when he turned pro) and 1967. As has been observed about other great players such as Rod Laver, Gonzales almost certainly would have won a number of additional Grand Slam titles had he been permitted to compete in those tournaments during that 18-year period. Jack Kramer, for instance, has speculated in an article about the theoretical champions of Forest Hills and Wimbledon that Gonzales would have won an additional 11 titles in those two tournaments alone.
The first major Open tournament was the French Championships in May of 1968, when Gonzales had just turned 40. In spite of the fact that he had been semi-retired for a number of years and that the tournament was held on slow clay courts that penalize serve-and-volley players, Gonzales beat the 1967 defending champion Roy Emerson in the quarterfinals. He then lost in the semi-finals to Roy Laver. He lost in the third round of Wimbledon but later beat the second-seeded Tony Roche in the fourth round of the United States Open before losing an epic match to Holland's Tom Okker.
[modifier] The most famous match ever played
In 1969, however, it was Gonzales's turn to prevail in the longest match ever played till that time, one so long and arduous that it resulted in the advent of tie break scoring. As a 41-year-old at Wimbledon, Gonzales met the fine young amateur Charlie Pasarell and beat him in a 5-set match that lasted five hours and 12 minutes and took 2 days to complete. In the fifth set Gonzales won all seven match points that Pasarell had against him, twice coming back from 0-40 deficits. The final score was an improbable 22-24, 1-6, 16-14, 6-3, 11-9. Gonzales went on to the fourth round, where he was beaten in four sets by Arthur Ashe. The match with Pasarell, however, is still remembered as one of the highlights in the history of tennis.
[modifier] The final professional years
Later that year Gonzales won the Howard Hughes Open in Las Vegas and the Pacific Southwest Open in Los Angeles, beating, among others, John Newcombe, Ken Rosewall, Stan Smith (twice), Cliff Richie, and Arthur Ashe. He was the top American money-winner for 1969 with $46,288. If the touring professionals had been included in the United States rankings, it is likely he would have been ranked number 1 in the country, just as he had been two decades earlier in 1948 and 1949. He could also beat the clear number-one player in the world, Rod Laver, on an occasional basis. In their most famous meeting, a $10,000 winner-take-all match before 15,000 in Madison Square Garden in February, 1970, the 41-year-old Gonzales beat Laver in five sets.
Gonzales continued to play in the occasional tournament and became the oldest player to have ever won a professional tournament, winning the Des Moines Open over 24-year-old Georges Goven when he was three months shy of his 44th birthday. In spite of the fact that he was still known as a serve-and-volley player, in 1971, when he was 43 and Jimmy Connors was 19, he beat the great young baseliner by playing him from the baseline at the Pacific Southwest Open.
Roy Emerson, the fine Australian player who won a dozen Grand Slam titles during the 1960s as an amateur when most of the best players in the world were professionals, turned pro in 1968 at the age of 32, having won the French Open the year before. Gonzales, 8 years older, immediately beat him in the quarter-finals of the French championships. In the following years, Gonzales beat Emerson another 11 times, never losing a match to him.
Gonzales was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport, Rhode Island in 1968.
[modifier] Personal and family life
Gonzales' parents, Manuel Antonio González and Carmen Alire, migrated from Chihuahua, Mexico to the US in the early 1900s. Gonzales was born in Los Angeles, the eldest of seven children. Although his name was properly spelled "Gonzalez", during most of his playing career he was known as "Gonzales". It was only towards the end of his life that the proper spelling began to be used.
The young Gonzales had a troubled adolescence and taught himself to play tennis with no encouragement from the exclusively white, and predominantly upper-class, tennis establishment of 1940s Los Angeles. He had brushes with the law and joined the Navy at the age of 16, serving for two years.
Gonzales married six times (twice to actress Madelyn Darrow), and had seven children. His last wife, Rita, is the sister of tennis great Andre Agassi. Gonzales died, nearly broke and almost friendless, in a tiny house near the Las Vegas airport in 1995. Andre Agassi paid for his funeral.
[modifier] Place among the all-time great tennis players
For about 35 years from around 1920 to 1955, Bill Tilden was generally considered the greatest player of all time. From the mid-1950s to about 1970, many people thought that Gonzales had claimed that title. Since then, champions of the Open era such as Rod Laver, Björn Borg, and Pete Sampras, have become widely considered to be greater players than Tilden or Gonzales. However some people connected with the game still consider Gonzales to be the best male player in tennis history. Jack Kramer, for instance, who became a world-class player in 1940 and then beat Gonzales badly in the latter's first year as a professional, has stated that he believes that Gonzales was better than either Laver or Sampras. Pancho Segura, who played, and frequently beat, all of the great players from the 1930s through the 1960s has stated that he believes that Gonzales was the best player of all time. Other tennis greats such as Don Budge, Lew Hoad, and Allen Fox have agreed with this assessment. In a 1972 article about an imaginary tournament between the all-time greats, Gene Scott had the fourth-seeded Gonzales upsetting Bill Tilden in the semi-finals and then using his serve to destroy Rod Laver in the finals.
[modifier] Most significant results
Grand Slam Tournament wins:
- United States Championships:
- Men's Singles champion - 1948, 1949
- Wimbledon:
- Men's Doubles champion - 1949
- French Championships:
- Men's Doubles champion - 1949
Professional World Singles Tournament wins:
- Wembley, Angleterre
- Singles champion - 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956
- Singles runner-up - 1953
- United States Professional Championship
- Singles champion - 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961
- Singles runner-up - 1951, 1952, 1964
- French Professional Championship
- Singles runner-up - 1953, 1956, 1961
Professional tour results:
- 1949-1950 - Jack Kramer beat Gonzales 96 matches to 27
- 1953-1954 - Gonzales beat Frank Sedgman 16-9, Ken McGregor 15-0, and Dinny Pails 47-7
- 1954 - Gonzales beat Sedgman 30-21 and Pancho Segura 30-21 in a series of round-robin matches
- 1955-1956 - Gonzales beat Tony Trabert 74-27
- 1957 - Gonzales beat Ken Rosewall 50-26
- 1958 - Gonzales beat Lew Hoad 51-36
- 1959 - Gonzales beat Mal Anderson, Ashley Cooper, and Hoad in round-robin matches
- 1959-1960 - Gonzales beat Alex Olmedo, Segura, and Rosewall in round-robin matches
- 1961 - Gonzales was the major winner in a tour that included Butch Buchholz, Barry MacKay, Andres Gimeno, Hoad, Olmedo, Sedgman, Trabert, and Cooper.
Davis Cup:
- Member of the US Davis Cup winning team in 1949 (won two singles rubbers in the final against Australia).
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[modifier] Melbourne février 1967, pas un tournoi pro mais matches par équipe d'une tournée pro
Melbourne, terminé le 19 février 1967 ne fut pas un tournoi (à 4 joueurs) comme indiqué par Joe McCauley mais une rencontre de deux jours opposant les EU à l'Australie (comme toutes les compétitions professionnelles en Australie début 1967). Voici les résultats complets de la tournée pro à Melbourne. Pour ceux qui possèdent le livre de Joe McCauley vous pourrez constater que celui-ci a fait 2 erreurs : ce n'est pas Laver qui a battu Ralston mais le contraire et ce ne fut pas un tournoi remporté par Gonzales bien que ce dernier ait remporté ses 2 simples (Stolle, Laver) :
18-19 Février 1967
Matches de tournée professionnelle, Melbourne
1er jour (18 février)
D Ralston (EU) b. R Laver 86 26 64
R Gonzales (EU) b. F Stolle 86 64
Laver-Stolle b. Gonzales-Ralston 16-14
2ème jour (19 février)
Ralston b. Stolle 97 63
Gonzales b. Laver 62 64
Laver-Stolle b. Gonzales-Ralston 46 1210 62
Carlo Colussi (d) 8 février 2008 à 13:00 (CET)
