Chase Pekar will make his debut on the international tennis circuit this summer as a member of the gold medal team. Along with 13 other top-ranked American juniors and two college coaches, the 14-year-old Palisadian will represent the United States as a tennis ambassador on a 27-day European tour which will include tournaments in Sweden, Germany and Holland. ‘I look forward to representing our great nation that I’m so proud to live in,’ Pekar says. ‘I’m eager to compete against top juniors half a world away from us.’ Pekar and his doubles partner Torsten Keil-Long of Claremont reached the finals of the War By the Shore junior tournament in Newport Beach last July. Pekar won the 14s division of the Palisadian-Post Tennis Open and reached the boys’ 12s consolation finals at the K-Swiss Grand Prix Masters in 2003. An eighth-grader at Corpus Christi, Pekar plans to enroll at Palisades High in the fall.
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