Head to head
Rivalry summary
Manuel Santana and Arthur Ashe met 6 times on the ATP tour between 1968 and 1978. Arthur Ashe leads the head-to-head 4–2 against Manuel Santana. By surface, Ashe leads 2–0 on grass; Santana leads 2–1 on carpet.
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Hard
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Grass
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Carpet
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Manuel Santana's wins on the left · Arthur Ashe's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (6)
| 1978 | Newport | Grass | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 7-5 6-2 |
| 1970 | New York | Carpet | RR | Manuel Santana | 6-5 |
| 1969 | US Open | Grass | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 7-5 6-1 6-8 6-4 |
| 1968 | Davis Cup EUR SF: USA vs ESP | Hard | RR | Arthur Ashe | 11-13 7-5 6-3 13-15 6-4 |
| 1968 | New York-1 | Carpet | QF | Arthur Ashe | 7-5 3-6 7-5 |
| 1968 | Philadelphia | Carpet | SF | Manuel Santana | 6-1 6-3 |
Methodology
Head-to-head totals and surface splits exclude walkovers (no match was played), which follows ATP convention — walkover meetings still appear in the match list. The momentum chart plots the running lead across all counted meetings, oldest to newest.