Brothers RJ and Jake Sands won their respective age divisions during last week’s junior tennis tournament at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills. Nine-year-old RJ, a fourth-grader at Palisades Elementary School, lost only one set in the 10s division, winning his first two matches at love and rallying from a 4-1 deficit in the second set to win 6-3, 7-5, in the finals. Meanwhile, 8-year-old Jake, entering third grade at Pali Elementary, blazed his way through the boys 8s draw. The brothers, who live in the El Medio bluffs, train at the Palisades Tennis Center and Riviera Country Club and both also play for the Dodgers organization in the Palisades Pony Baseball Association. Their father Howard played with Scott Davis under Coach Bud Ware at Palisades High, graduating in 1979. He was an All-American at Harvard and played full-time for three years on the pro tour.
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