Charlie Pasarell has commented for the Tennis Channel and with Arthur Ashe and Sheridan Snyder formed the National Junior Tennis League.
39 Facts About Charlie Pasarell
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Charlie Pasarell was ten times ranked in the top ten of the US and No 1 in 1967 and world No 11 in 1966.
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In 2013, Pasarell was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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Charlie Pasarell is known as Charlito because his father had the same name and was a gifted tennis player, being the champion of Puerto Rico six times in the 1950s.
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Charlie Pasarell was a prestigious junior and first appeared on the cover of "World Tennis Magazine" at the age of 11 in 1955.
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Charlie Pasarell won over half dozen Orange Bowl titles and five US junior titles including the US juniors in singles and doubles with Clark Graebner in 1961.
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Charlie Pasarell first appeared in the US Championships at Forest Hills in 1960 and was first ranked nationally that year.
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Charlie Pasarell attended and graduated from 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.
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Charlie Pasarell reached No 1 in the US rankings in 1967 and became the first man in over 30 years to win the US National Indoors in successive years.
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Charlie Pasarell competed in major tournaments from 1960 through 1979, with his most successful showings coming in doubles.
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Charlie Pasarell reached the finals in men's doubles at the US Championships in 1965 with Frank Froehling and 1969 with Dennis Ralston, the French Open with Arthur Ashe in 1970, and the Australian Open in 1977 with Erik van Dillen.
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Charlie Pasarell was a quarterfinalist at the US National Championships in 1965 and Wimbledon in 1976.
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Charlie Pasarell was a member of the US Davis Cup team in 1966,1967,1968, and 1974.
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In 1969, Charlie Pasarell played Pancho Gonzales in what was, until 2010, the longest match in Wimbledon history in terms of the number of games played.
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Charlie Pasarell was the first man to beat the reigning champion in the first round at Wimbledon when in 1967 he beat Manuel Santana.
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Rosewall and Charlie Pasarell took us to the mountains yesterday - and the air was like wine.
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Charlie Pasarell then had a bad run of form signalling the slow down of his career.
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Charlie Pasarell finished ranked 77 on the ATP computer and 25 in the US Charlie Pasarell had started the year well in doubles with Erik van Dillen.
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Charlie Pasarell made his last attempt to qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon in 1984 aged 40 when he was not invited to take part in the over 35's singles event and lost in the first round to Jeff Turpin.
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Charlie Pasarell continued to play regularly on the seniors' tour until the end of 1985 and then stopped playing completely in 1988.
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Charlie Pasarell returned in 1992 to play regularly in the US Open Seniors events until his last appearance in 2002, he played in a veterans event in Puerto Rico in 1993.
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However, in 1968 on February 17, Allison Danzig of The New York Times reported that Charlie Pasarell played 9 hours and 12 minutes of tennis in the US National Indoors in just over 24 hours.
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Danzig wrote: "In all, Charlie Pasarell played 217 games in just over 24 hours, and that must stand as a record in a National Championship tournament".
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Charlie Pasarell was a very stylish player, and was coached by the celebrated Welby Van Horn at the Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Charlie Pasarell is splay-footed and walks with a drawal, repeatedly pulling at his trousers as if adjusting a gun belt.
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Charlie Pasarell's arms swing menacingly and seem to itch for a challenge to a fast draw.
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Charlie Pasarell has the slow, casual assurance of those poker-faced heroes in films about the old West.
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Charlie Pasarell has fast eyes and hands but is otherwise designed exclusively for leisure.
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Charlie Pasarell's shots are like the lashes of a whip, or sudden flashes of lightning across a muggy, drowsy landscape.
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Joel Drucker wrote in his article in the Tennis Channel published on March 14,2014, after Charlie Pasarell was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame the following description:.
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Charlie Pasarell began a tournament in La Quinta, California that evolved into a premier professional tennis event, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
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Charlie Pasarell had been the longtime Director of that tournament until retiring from that position in 2012.
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Charlie Pasarell is a member of the Intercollegiate Men's Tennis Hall of Fame and the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame.
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Charlie Pasarell was voted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.
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In July 2013, Charlie Pasarell was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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Charlie Pasarell is a descendant of the Puerto Rican writer Manuel Zeno Gandia.
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Charlie Pasarell's brother Stanley who is developing a golf course in Puerto Rico along with Charlie Pasarell, was a very useful player, he won the US junior doubles title with Tico Carrero in 1966.
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In 1967, the Charlie Pasarell family won the USTA Family of the Year award.
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Charlie Pasarell married Shireen Fareed in 1971, the daughter of the US Davis Cup Doctor Omar Fareed, they have two children Fara and Charles.