WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Incoming Harvard Men's Tennis first-year, Masato Perera, added to his already impressive high school tennis resume by winning the USTA's National Junior Scholar Athlete Award. This award is given yearly to a high school junior or senior nationally ranked in the Top 100 with an unweighted GPA of 3.75 on a 4.0 scale, who demonstrates that tennis is the sport of opportunity for education and advancement and character development. Perera is now the second member of the Crimson to earn this prestigious award, following in the footsteps of Xavier Gonzalez '18. 

Perera, who was ranked as a five-star, blue-chip prospect by the Tennis Recruiting Network, comes to Cambridge with a UTR of 12.13 and hopes to be a key piece on a team that will look to secure back-to-back Ivy League Championships in 2023. 

Learn more about one of the newest members of Harvard Men's Tennis who will arrive in Cambridge this Fall in the Crimson's Class of 2026. 

Masato Perera
Hometown: Santa Barbara, Calif.
High School: San Marcos High School
 
Before Harvard: Ranked as a blue chip and five-star recruit by the Tennis Recruiting Network … Listed as the fifth-best recruit in California and 28th in the nation by TRN … Won the CIF-Southern Section Individual Singles Championship in 2021 … Captured the USTA National Boys 18's Singles Championship, a Level 1 USTA event … Won the Channel League Singles title in 2018 … Awarded the Southern California Tennis MVP Award by the USTA … Named a National High School Tennis Association All-American … Honored as the Santa Barbara Round Table's Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2022 … Brother Kento played tennis at Stanford and his sister, Yuka, plays tennis at MIT  … Three-year National Honor Society member … Received the USTA Scholar Athlete award … Member of the Accelerated Academic Program for Leadership and Enrichment at San Marcos … Has a 12.13 UTR.