Mario Llamas (30 March 1928 – 17 June 2014) was a

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player from

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Career

Llamas was a regular fixture on the Mexico Davis Cup team, appearing in a total of 21 ties during his career.Davis Cup Profile
/ref> He won 21 of his 44 rubbers, 15 of them in singles. In the

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, Llamas was a member of the team that finished as the runner-up. Although he did not play in the final against

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, he took part in the America Zone and Inter-Zone finals. He had a win over

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in a 1959 Davis Cup match. At the 1960 Wimbledon Championships he had wins over

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, Warren Woodcock and Roger Becker, before losing in the round of 16 to

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.Tennis Archive Profile
He also made the fourth round of the 1961 French Championships, where he was seeded 13th. Llamas was a gold medalist in the men's doubles at the

1955 Pan American Games The 1955 Pan American Games, officially known as II Pan American Games () and commonly known as Mexico 1955 (), opened on March 12, 1955, at University Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico, in front of a capacity crowd of 100,000 spectators. A total ...

, with Gustavo Palafox as his partner. In the

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he took home a silver medal in the singles, after losing to gold medal playoff to Ronald Barnes. his other career singles highlights include winning the Pan American Championships on clay courts at Centro Deportivo Chapultepec,

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three times (1958–59, 1963). Llamas died on 17 June 2014 at the age of 86.

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