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Miguel Olvera
Miguel Olvera, was a tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1960, as an unseeded player, he won the singles title at the Cincinnati Masters. He remains to this day the only unseeded player ever to win the singles title in Cincinnati. (The tournament began in 1899 and seeding began in 1927.)
In 1967 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Olvera and teammate Pancho Guzman led the Ecuadorian Davis Cup to a stunning upset of the mighty United States Davis Cup team. After American Cliff Richey defeated Guzman in the first singles match, Olvera, then 26 years old, faced Arthur Ashe in ...
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