Piedmonter Wins Singles Title at Easter Bowl

Mackenzie McDonald of Piedmont won the boys’ 18s singles title Sunday at the 2012 Easter Bowl ITF Tennis Championships in White Plains, NY.  McDonald (17), who celebrated a birthday Monday, will receive a wild cards into a USTA Pro Circuit event as well as to the US Open Junior Championships (if needed).

McDonald, who reached the boys’ semifinals at the 2012 Australian Open, entered the tournament as the No. 3 seed and defeated No. 4 seed Alexios Halebian of Glendale, CA, 6-4, 6-1, to capture his first national singles title since winning the USTA Boys’ 14s Spring National title in 2009.

Many of the nation’s top junior tennis players competed in the Easter Bowl and six other USTA Spring National Championships, the first major national junior championships of 2012, in Rancho Mirage, CA, and Delray Beach, Florida, last week.