{"id":662317,"date":"2026-05-11T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:38:10","slug":"king-wins-regional-tennis-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662317\/","title":{"rendered":"King wins regional tennis title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              King wins regional tennis title<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:19 am Monday, May 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Mike Marsee\/Contributing Writer\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND, Ky. \u2014 Jacob King of Boyle County Rebels won the 12th Region boys singles championship Friday at Eastern Kentucky University.<\/p>\n<p>King defeated Owen Willoughby of Casey County Rebels 6-7, 7-6, 1-0 (10-6) in the championship match to capture his first regional title.<\/p>\n<p>King, a junior who reached the round of 16 in last year\u2019s regional tournament, is one of five area players who qualified for the KHSAA State Tennis Tournament May 20 and 26-27 in Lexington by advancing to the regional semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Watson of Danville Admirals won two matches without dropping a game and added another straight-sets victory in the quarterfinals before falling to Piper Harris of Pulaski County Maroons in a third-set super tiebreaker in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Karmen Cundiff and Julia King of Casey County lost in straight sets to a Pulaski County doubles team in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King wins regional tennis title Published 7:19 am Monday, May 11, 2026 By Mike Marsee\/Contributing Writer RICHMOND, Ky.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-662317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}