{"id":770113,"date":"2026-07-18T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770113\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:12:12","slug":"top-tennis-players-from-afar-travel-to-sioux-falls-for-sd-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770113\/","title":{"rendered":"Top tennis players from afar travel to Sioux Falls for SD Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -The biggest tennis tournament of the summer is the South Dakota Open which is this weekend in Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The South Dakota Open has been around for over 70 years, but when they started paying prize money 10 years ago it really took off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They had to have qualifier matches last night to pair down the men\u2019s open field to 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">And many of these players came a long way to be here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marc Kurtz, Tournament Director says, \u201cWe have international players who are playing here but most of them are college players so they are coming here for this tournament. But we have people flying in for the tournament from North Carolina, Texas, from California. So we get a lot of people coming here and some of them have done the tournament for multiple years now so it\u2019s kind of a tradition for them to play this tournament the 3rd weekend in July. It\u2019s nice to see them re-unite with friends and stuff so it\u2019s great to have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The $22,000 purse is the largest ever and has drawn some great players to Sioux Falls for the 4-day event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The championship matches are Sunday with women\u2019s singles at 10 and men at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -The biggest tennis tournament of the summer is the South Dakota Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[328728,328727,99,428,199938],"class_list":["post-770113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-marc-kurtz","tag-sd-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770113","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=770113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}