Tennis: Van’t Hof, Nanosky advance to singles semifinals

OJAI - Newport Beach’s Kaes Van’t Hof and Costa Mesa’s John Nanosky

advanced to the singles semifinals Friday in the boys 16s and 14s,

respectively, at the 102nd Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, where several

matches were shortened to eight-game pro sets because of rain.

Van’t Hof defeated San Marino’s Bryant Yung, 6-3, 7-6 (4), in the

Round of 32, Phillip Huffard of Santa Barbara in the Round of 16, 8-2,

and Jason Jung of Torrance in the quarterfinals, 8-4.

Nanosky beat Abhi Venugopal of Cerritos in the Round of 32, 6-3, 6-3,

Chris Johnson of Trabuco Canyon in the Round of 16, 8-3, and Moises

Cardenas of North Hills in the quarterfinals, 8-5.

Corona del Mar High’s Cameron Ball and Garrett Snyder, seeded No. 1 in

the boys CIF Interscholastic doubles, advanced to the semifinals

straight-set victories over Cole Dunlap and Thomas Hopkins of Coronado in

the Round of 16, 6-0, 6-1, and John Mano and Jason Wood of Los Alamitos

in the quarterfinals, 6-0, 6-2.

In the girls 18s singles, second-seeded and Pepperdine-bound Natalie

Braverman (Newport Beach) lost in the quarterfinals to Celia Durkin of

Woodland Hills, 8-3.