{"id":846049,"date":"2026-08-04T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846049\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:34:09","slug":"red-deer-hosts-alberta-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846049\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Deer hosts Alberta Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Red Deer hosts Alberta Open<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:27 am Tuesday, August 4, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Some of the best tennis players in the province were in Red Deer this past weekend for one of Canada\u2019s longest-running tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 113th Alberta Open was held in Red Deer from Thursday, July 30 to Monday, Aug. 3 at the Red Deer Tennis Club, located next to the Don Moore Recreation Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a great tournament all weekend long,\u201d said Colin Latchford, Tennis Alberta executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got all levels competing, from open levels down to more recreational players. We have men, women, doubles and singles. We added a wheelchair division for the first time in many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta Open has run since 1906, only interrupted during the First World War, the Second World War, the 2013 Alberta floods and the COVID-19 Pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list of winners at the 2026 Alberta Open:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men\u2019s Singles Open: Andre Szilvassy (first) and Liam Spiers (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men\u2019s Singles 5.0: Jonathan Pearson (first) and Fraser Hart (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men\u2019s Singles 4.0: Bahman Sobbi (first) and Christopher James York (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men\u2019s Singles 3.0: Clarke Jay (first) and Haopeng Jin (second)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women\u2019s Singles Open: Jennifer Fang (first) and Mika Oguro (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women\u2019s Singles 5.0: Mary Potter (first) and Liisa Wheadon (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women\u2019s Singles 4.0: Karen Leah Mackay (first) and Katie Avram (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women\u2019s Singles 3.0: Amber Qian (first) and Nadya Vandervelden (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men\u2019s Doubles Open: Jeff David Spiers\/Liam Spiers (first) and Harry Lin\/Armaan Patel (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men\u2019s Doubles 5.0: Henry Gardiner and Arthur Usevicius (first), and Drake Chao and Jack Snell (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Men\u2019s Doubles 4.0: Antonio Acevedo Boguer\/Jason R Mcwhirter (first) and Don Seibel\/Eugene Swanepoel (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women\u2019s Doubles 5.0: Alexandra Dorobantu\/Anamaria Shana Dorobantu (first), and Erin Silverman\/Tami Solola (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women\u2019s Doubles 4.0: Jaroslava Dolemo\/Simona Nichols (first), and Katie Avram\/Alana Skocdopole (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mixed Doubles 5.0: Eason Yichen Liu\/Jennifer Fang (first) and Jonathan Pearson\/Erin Silverman (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mixed Doubles 4.0: Jason R. McWhirter\/Nya McWhirter (first) and Bahman Sobbi\/Jaroslava Dolemo (second).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wheelchair: Laurie Zalmanowitz (first) and Kyle Thompson (second).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Deer hosts Alberta Open Published 9:27 am Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Some of the best tennis players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-846049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846049","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=846049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}