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Lucila Becerra

Mexican tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ61234655 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lucila "Lucy" Becerra González (born 22 July 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico.

Biography

Tennis career

Becerra reached a best singles ranking of 253 in the world and won nine professional titles on the ITF circuit. As a doubles player she was ranked as high as 194 and won 22 ITF titles.

A three-time Pan American Games medalist, Becerra won the mixed doubles gold at Indianapolis in 1987, to go with her women's doubles bronze medal in the same tournament. She won a further women's doubles bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.

Her Fed Cup career for Mexico spanned 10 years and she appeared in a total of 15 ties. She won 11 matches overall, five in singles and six in doubles.

Personal life

Becerra lives in Mazatlán and is married with two children, twins Lucy and Mariano.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lucila Becerra” as mexican tennis player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1987, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-07-22. The account is most persuasive where Lucila, Becerra and Mexican can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as mexican tennis player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q61234655. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1987 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lucila Becerra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.