Pedro Masip

Pedro Masip Saura (8 October 1918 – 28 June 2001)[1][2] was a Spanish tennis player who competed in the early postwar years.

It was while at the club that Ricardo Saprissa, a nationally-renowned footballer and hockey player, gave the young Masip his first tennis racquet.

While the national ban was in place, Masip chose to earn his living playing Basque pelota with his brother, successfully introducing the one-handed backhand to the sport.

[2] Upon his return to competitive tennis in 1945, Masip won the Spanish national title a further six times in a row.

[4] In 1950, Masip left Spanish tennis behind and moved to Barranquilla in Colombia, only returning to Spain in 1968.