On December 11, 2021, Saturday, at the edge of four in the afternoon, the death of the tennis player was made public. Manolo Santanaat 83 years of age due to a heart attack and after a time afflicted with a weak health. Santana wore several days sedated at homeand its outcome “with I was waiting“, as reported on television.
The truth is that in recent years the athlete’s health was delicateas could be seen in his last public outing, in September 2021, in Marbella, during the celebration of the Mutua Madrid Open. In that act, Santana was holding onto his wife with difficulty, claudia rodriguez, to be able to walk. Thus demonstrating a reduced mobility.
Be that as it may, one sad loss not only for the world of tennis -the field in which Santana became a legend-, but also for his family and friends. Manolo left a affective legacy -in addition to patrimonial- made up of Five sons and a widow, Claudia.
[La discreta vida de Claudia Rodríguez, viuda de Manolo Santana: el papel de su hijo y su estado anímico]
The tennis player Manolo Santana in one of his last public outings, in March 2021, in Marbella.
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A few weeks ago, THE SPANISH could know that the woman of the racket ace continues “played“and battling against grief, sheltered in memories and supported by her only son, Christian Tuaty.
Today, 365 days after that death, the name of Manolo Santanamuch to his regret, continues to be in the news for two key aspects: his heritage and the future of the tennis club that I raise a 1997 a Marbella, Manolo Santana Racquets Club.
On the one hand, a few days ago the medium desk reported, and EL ESPAÑOL has been able to confirm, that four of the tennis player’s five children have judicially requested two properties that his father had in his name before he died, in Madrid, in the Chamberí neighborhood. Specific, a parking lot and a garage space.
This medium has tried to find out the identity of those four children, but has only been able to find out a revealing detail: “Today, Claudia only has a relationship, and a good one, with Barbarian“. Be that as it may, what this newspaper has been able to corroborate is that It is not true that Manolo Santana disinherited his children. Each of their descendants has received their corresponding legitimate, as required by law.
The informant with whom this medium contacts does not hide that the widow, Claudia Rodríguez, has been left “well positioned” with the inheritance. From the outset, she is sole administrator of what is understood as the jewel in the tennis player’s crown, the tennis club that he founded in Marbella and ran until his death, located on the hill of the mountain on the Istan road.
According to the information to which EL ESPAÑOL had access a year ago, this company was incorporated in 2010 and, with only one more year of seniority, Claudia Inés Rodríguez Valencia, already appeared as sole administrator. In that staff the son of the colombina also appears, Christian Tuaty Rodriguezas proxy, a position that until then had been occupied by the son of the tennis player, Manuel Santana Martinezfruit of the first marriage of the athlete with Fernanda Dopeso.
The couple formed by Manolo Santana and Claudia Rodríguez, very smiling looking at the camera, in March 2019 during a tennis tournament.
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Several opinions have been issued about this club and not exactly favorable. Some sources have claimed that the Racquets Club It is experiencing a moment of great neglect in its facilities and that several partners have recently resigned.
A critical situation that, added to the fact that the concession of the Racquets Club of Marbella It is valid Until the year 2026 -the year in which the time granted to Manolo Santana to operate the facilities expires-, there are those who speculate that Claudia wants to get rid of the facilities when the time comes. An extreme that EL ESPAÑOL has not been able to confirm or deny.
It is only made to arrive that the Colombian “he doesn’t know anything yet“about what he’s going to do.”You are seeing what compensates youshe has also bet a lot on that club and has invested a lot, “they add. About the war and the relationship with four of Santana’s children, the person who entrusts this information to this media outlet assures:” She has someone by her side have to have.”
Claudia was always a discreet woman with a very closed and select group of friends. This is how it continues to be today; very few people know how Claudia Rodríguez really feels. It’s hard for her to open up He only confesses to a few good and discreet friends. “They have been very unfair to her. The man in her life left her and there are friends who have decided to look the other way,” added another source, a few weeks ago, to this medium.
Claudia Rodríguez with Bárbara, one of Manolo’s daughters, in a tribute to the tennis player in Marbella.
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Claudia Rodríguez has in her only son, Christian Tuatyto his great emotional support and, above all, a great ally in business. “You can say that the business is run, hand in hand, by mother and son. He has never let go of his mother’s hand, not even at the worst moments. He also had a bad time with the death of Manolo, he was like a second father“, they pointed out then.
This newspaper has wanted to be interested in the possible desire of Claudia Rodríguez to fall in love again, but it is completely ruled out: “She does not have the head for that now, although I will tell you, and here I am, that she does not lack suitors in the club”.
In this time without Manolo, one of the great motivations of Claudia Rodríguez are the tributes paid to the legendary tennis player, such as the one that took place on May 4, 2022 at the Mutua Madrid Open.
After the victory of Rafael Nadal (35) over the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic (22), the Manolo Santana court became the scene of a brief act in honor of the tennis legend. The one from Manacor with the mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida (47) paid tribute to the deceased athlete with the delivery of a recognition approved by the Plenary of the Madrid City Council on April 26 of this year.
This recognition came just two months after the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation organized a tribute to Manolo Santana at the Roman Bridge Club of Marbella, in which Claudia Rodríguez was also present. In addition, in April 2022, it was revealed that Manolo Santana was going to be named Favorite Son of the city of Madrid. This has not been his only consideration in the Spanish capital, since in 2008 he was named Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Dos de Mayo.
