{"id":805423,"date":"2026-08-07T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805423\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:12:13","slug":"former-tri-state-high-school-standout-to-make-pro-debut-at-cincinnati-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805423\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tri-State high school standout to make pro debut at Cincinnati Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; The 2026 Cincinnati Open is right around the corner, and a former Mason High School tennis standout is set to make his professional tour debut at this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Vignesh Gogineni practiced Friday at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason. The 22-year-old recent Yale graduate won a state championship at the same facility four years ago.<\/p>\n<p><p>The 2026 Cincinnati Open is right around the corner, and a former Mason High School tennis standout is set to make his professional tour debut at this year\u2019s tournament. (WKRC)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gogineni will play his first professional-level match next week in front of friends and family after receiving a qualifying wild card into the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found out mid-tournament in Champaign that I actually received a wild card for this tournament. And it was obviously like, it was one of the best like calls that I&#8217;ve ever gotten in my life,\u201d Gogineni said.<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying wild card means Gogineni must win two matches in the qualifying event to advance to the main draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; The 2026 Cincinnati Open is right around the corner, and a former Mason High School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-805423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805423","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=805423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}