I said to myself: "Geez, I'd like to be like him!"

• Santan dies The enterprising and passionate champion who gave life to Spanish tennis

• Album A Life in Pictures

I saw him for the first time at the La Salut Tennis Club, when he played a final against

, in 1959. I had already heard of him, but that was the first time I was able to see him play.

I was a ball boy and he had started in the same tennis

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