{"id":298238,"date":"2025-11-18T02:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298238\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:33:16","slug":"rochester-native-former-pro-tennis-player-to-take-over-as-us-open-tournament-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298238\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester native, former pro tennis player to take over as US Open Tournament Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 Rochester native and former Top-20 doubles pro Eric Butorac has been named the next Tournament Director of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The USTA announced the development Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Butorac will succeed Stacey Allaster who the USTA said will continue serving as USTA Chief Executive, Professional Tennis, before transitioning to a strategic advisor role. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The USTA reports Butorac joined the USTA in 2016 after 14 years on tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 Rochester native and former Top-20 doubles pro Eric Butorac has been named the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[155447,3100,99,428,11883],"class_list":["post-298238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-eric-butorac","tag-rochester","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}