Charlie Pasarell
Over 35s Doubles at Wimbledon 1985
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| Full name | Charles Manuel Pasarell, Jr. |
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| Country (sports) |
 United States
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| Residence | Indian Wells, California, USA |
| Born |
February 12, 1944 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Turned pro | 1968 (amateur tour from 1960) |
| Retired | 1979 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 2013 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 201-220 (Open era) |
| Career titles | 23 |
| Highest ranking | No. 11 (1966, World's Top 20) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (1976, 1977Jan) |
| French Open | 3R (1973) |
| Wimbledon | QF (1976) |
| US Open | QF (1965) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 236–201 (Open era) |
| Career titles | 30 |
| Highest ranking | No. 22 (August 23, 1977) |
| Last updated on: July 7, 2013. | |
Charlie (Charles Manuel) Pasarell, Jr. (born February 12, 1944, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a former Puerto Rican tennis player, Tennis Administrator and founder of the current Indian Wells tournament. He has also commented for the Tennis Channel and with Arthur Ashe and Sheridan Snyder formed the National Junior tennis League. He was ten times ranked in the top ten of the U.S. and No. 1 in 1967 and World No. 11 in 1966. Representing the United States as a player, he has been heavily engaged in the administration of the professional game from the inception of the ATP in 1972 and has been Vice President when he was still playing and until recently on the Board of Directors representing the Americas tournaments. In 2013 Pasarell was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
He is also known as Charlito ("Little Charlie") because his father had the same name and was also a gifted tennis player, being the champion of Puerto Rico six times in the 1950s.
Pasarell was a prestigious junior and first appeared on the cover of World Tennis Magazine at the age of 11 in 1955. He won over half dozen Orange Bowl titles and five U.S. Junior titles including the U.S. Juniors in Singles and Doubles with Clark Graebner in 1961. He first appeared in the U.S. Championships at Forest Hills in 1960 and was first ranked nationally that year. In 1962 he played at the Caribe Hilton Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This was arguably the biggest tournament in the whole of Central, Caribbean and South America. Charlie was only just 18 and beat U.S. No. 7 Ron Holmberg, followed by Mexican No. 1 Mario Llamas 6-0, 6-0 in the quarter finals (avenging a similar defeat of his 14-year-old brother Stanley earlier in the tournament). In the semi finals Charlie met Rod Laver, who would later win his first Grand Slam that year. He took the first set 6–0 before losing in three sets. World Tennis reported that "The newspapers and magazines in Puerto Rico have put Khrushchev (Soviet leader behind the Cuban Missile Crisis) on the second page and Charlito on the first".
He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he won the NCAA men's singles and doubles with Ian Crookenden of New Zealand in 1966, one year after his friend and teammate Arthur Ashe won those titles. He reached #1 in the U.S. rankings in 1967, and became the first man in over 30 years to win the U.S. National Indoors in successive years. This tournament was the biggest indoor tournament in the world.
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