Tennis: Carsten Ball cruises to third round at Easter Bowl

Corona del Mar High freshman sensation Carsten Ball, the No. 2 seed

in the boys 16s, advanced to the third round with another easy victory

Friday in the prestigious Easter Bowl, the United States Tennis

Association’s Super National Spring Championships at Riviera Resort in

Palm Springs.

Ball defeated Jon Wiegand of San Antonio, Texas, 6-0, 6-2, in the

second round, after beating first-round opponent Douglas Perrin of

Atlanta, 6-3, 6-3.

In the 18s, Corona del Mar junior Garrett Snyder lost to 25th-seeded

Brett McKeon of Boca Raton, Fla., 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, in the first round.

Another Newport Beach player is making a case for himself in the

desert in the 16s, as Mater Dei’s Kaes Van’t Hof advanced with a 4-6,

6-4, 6-1 first-round victory Friday over Atlanta’s Luka Cerenko and will

face ninth-seeded Benjamin Rogers of Oak Ridge, Tenn., today at noon in

the second round. Van’t Hof is unseeded.

The Easter Bowl traditionally hosts the top amateur junior tennis

players in the country.

CdM senior standout Cameron Ball is expected to play today in the 18s,

while, on the girls side, CdM’s Taylynn Snyder competes in the 16s.