Charlie Pasarell

Charlie Pasarell, born in 1944, is a Puerto Rican-American tennis player who later became one of the sport's administrators. He was ranked number one in the United States in 1967 and eleventh in the world in 1966, and he played Davis Cup for the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. His best Grand Slam results came in doubles, where he reached finals at the U.S. Championships, the French Open and the Australian Open, and in 1969 he lost a five-set Wimbledon match to Pancho Gonzales that was then the longest in the tournament's history by games played. After retiring he founded the tournament that became the Indian Wells event, helped found a national junior tennis league, worked as a broadcaster, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.