{"id":886566,"date":"2026-10-18T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886566\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:48:43","slug":"tovar-and-mendez-advance-to-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886566\/","title":{"rendered":"Tovar and Mendez Advance to Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792324123_56_20261010-204600.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Tovar and Mendez Advance to Day Two\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy EHS Athletics on X<\/p>\n<p>Emporia High tennis extended its state postseason run on Friday as the doubles team of Alexa Tovar and Chelsea Mendez advanced to Saturday at the 5A State Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCompeting at the Andover District Tennis Complex, the Spartans saw mixed results on the opening day of state play:<\/p>\n<p>\u200bAfter dropping their opening match, Alexa Tovar and Chelsea Mendez rallied in the consolation bracket. The duo bounced back with back-to-back victories in their second and third matches to secure their spot in Saturday\u2019s tournament action.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bIzabella Hinst represented Emporia in the singles draw, coming up short in two hard-fought matches to bring her season to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy EHS Athletics on X Emporia High tennis extended its state postseason run on Friday as the doubles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-886566","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\/886566","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=886566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}