Tennis: Carsten Ball advances at Easter Bowl

The best amateur junior tennis players in the country are in the

desert until next Friday competing in the prestigious Easter Bowl, or the

United States Tennis Association Super National Spring Championships, at

Riviera Resort in Palm Springs.

Following Thursday’s opening-round action, Corona del Mar High

freshman Carsten Ball, the No. 2 seed in the boys 14s, defeated Douglas

Perrin of Atlanta, 6-3, 6-3, to advance.

In the girls 16s, CdM’s Taylynn Snyder advanced with a 6-4, 6-4

first-round win over Brittany Baldy of Oklahoma City, Okla., while

fourth-seeded Kristi Miller of Marysville, Mich., advanced over CdM’s

Brittany Holland, 7-5, 1-0 (retired).

Highlighting today’s opening-round play will be CdM senior Cameron

Ball, unseeded in the boys 18s, will face No. 12 Stephen Bass of

Bronxville, N.Y., today at 3:30 p.m.

Ball, enjoying a breakthrough season, has defeated every top player

his way of late, including Stanford-bound James Pade of Menlo School

(Atherton) in an eight-game pro set, 8-7 (7-1), in the CdM National High

School All-American Boys Team Tennis Invitational at Palisades Tennis

Club.

In the boys 16s, Newport Beach’s Kaes Van’t Hof (Mater Dei), unseeded,

will play Luka Cerenko of Atlanta at 10:30 a.m., while unseeded CdM

junior standout Garrett Snyder will square off in the 18s against

25th-seeded Brett McKeon of Boca Raton, Fla., at 8 a.m.