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Manuel Santana
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Spanish tennis player (1938–2021)
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Manuel Martinez Santana is a Spanish male tennis player born in Madrid on May 10, 1938. He competed for Spain in tennis, including participation in the 1968 Summer Olympics and membership on the Spain Davis Cup team. His professional career spanned until 1977.
Santana won the men's singles titles at the 1965 U.S. National Championships and the 1966 Wimbledon Championships. He achieved a singles record of 113–44 and a doubles record of 20–22. He is right-handed and speaks Spanish. He resides in Marbella and is married to Mila Ximénez. He has been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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Key facts
- Full name
- Manuel Santana Martínez
- Country sports
- Spain
- Born
- ( 1938-05-10 ) 10 May 1938, Madrid , Spain
- Died
- 11 December 2021 (2021-12-11) (aged 83), Marbella , Spain
- Turned pro
- 1968 (amateur from 1956)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Int tennis hof
- 1984 ( member page )
- Career record
- 864–227 (79.1%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 1 (1965 , Ned Potter )
- French open
- W ( 1961 , 1964 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1966 )
- Us open
- W ( 1965 )
- Olympic games
- W ( 1968 , demonstration )
- Davis cup
- F ( 1965 , 1967 , 1970 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Spain
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Manuel
- Family name
- Santana
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Madrid
- Place of death
- Marbella
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Spain Davis Cup team
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Image
- MSantana.jpg
- Residence
- Marbella
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- Commons category
- Manuel Santana
- date of birth
- 1938-05-10
- doubles record
- 20–22
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 113–44
- birth name
- Manuel Martinez Santana
- end of work period
- 1977-00-00
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- nickname
- Manolo
- date of death
- 2021-12-11
- name in native language
- Manuel Santana
- second family name in Spanish name
- Martínez
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Encyclopedic overview
Manuel Santana Martínez (10 May 1938 – 11 December 2021), also known as Manolo Santana, was a Spanish tennis player. He was ranked as amateur world No. 1 in 1965 by Ned Potter and in 1966 by Lance Tingay and Sport In The USSR.
He won the US Open in 1965 and, before winning Wimbledon the following year, he was quoted as saying "grass is just for cows", favouring artificial surfaces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manuel Santana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.