{"id":774761,"date":"2026-07-20T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774761\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:20:26","slug":"tennis-ulster-county-tourney-crowns-mens-and-womens-singles-champs-daily-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774761\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Ulster County tourney crowns men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles champs \u2013 Daily Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, N.Y. \u2014 Top-seeded Evan Ambrose and Karen Gill captured the UIster County Open Tennis Tournament\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles titles, respectively, at Forsyth Park on Sunday, July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose bested No. 3 seed Mat Guido 6-3, 6-3 in the title match. Ambrose didn\u2019t lose a set in his five wins on the way to claiming the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Gill beat No. 2 Carolyn Pinheiro 6-0, 6-2 in the women\u2019s singles final. Gill didn\u2019t drop a set in three matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 tennis championship had a 63% increase over 2025 in unique participants, with 48 people participating in more than one draw.<\/p>\n<p>The longest match of the two-week tournament was 33 games. Franz Kaisik and Rick Lange defeated Jesse Goldfarb and Philippe Hyman 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the marathon men\u2019s doubles match.<\/p>\n<p>Guido had the most games by a player (148).<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,720 games were played by all players combined.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $7,685 was raised from player registrations and sponsorships, with more to come in September\u2019s 45-and-over event. The funds will be allocated to the improvement of local tennis courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON, N.Y. \u2014 Top-seeded Evan Ambrose and Karen Gill captured the UIster County Open Tennis Tournament\u2019s men\u2019s and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2005,99,428,173849],"class_list":["post-774761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-new-york","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-ulster-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774761","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=774761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}