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Manuel Santana
Sign in to saveAlso known as Manuel Martinez Santana, Manolo Santana
Spanish tennis player (1938–2021)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Impresiones = impressions
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1966
Discography
- Santana1969
- Abraxas1970
- Santana1971
- Caravanserai1972
- Welcome1973
- Borboletta1974
- Amigos1976
- Festivál1976
- Inner Secrets1978
- Marathon1979
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Manuel+Santana">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,422x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,143x
- Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models
· 1995 · cited 14,691x
- The Hallmarks of Aging
· 2013 · cited 14,131x
via Crossref · CC0
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
- Team
- _Deceased Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Spain
via TheSportsDB
~6 min read
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.