{"id":895684,"date":"2026-10-26T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895684\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:14:11","slug":"cedar-rapids-duo-win-at-national-tennis-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895684\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Rapids duo win at national tennis championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; Two Cedar Rapids tennis teammates are celebrating a win at a national championship over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nathan Williams and Brady Anderson won the top award for the Unified Doubles competition at the United States Tennis Association\u2019s Intellectual and Developmental Disability Championship in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two have been tennis partners since high school. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Unified Doubles game pairs athletes with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team. Twenty-four other unified doubles teams competed at the three-day event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">U.S. Tennis Association says the game puts player sportsmanship and athletic performance on a national stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This was also the first U.S. Tennis Association\u2019s tournament in partnership with the Special Olympics to expand accessibility and inclusion in tennis. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Nathan Williams and Brady Anderson during the IDD National Championships October 25, 2026 at...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/G4LQ23AAYNGGXJE6RTNPTNVUCY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1470\" \/>Nathan Williams and Brady Anderson during the IDD National Championships October 25, 2026 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.(Julio Aguilar\/ Turtlebox Pictures | Julio Aguilar\/ Turtlebox Pictures)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; Two Cedar Rapids tennis teammates are celebrating a win at a national championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[375484,375486,375483,375488,99,428,375485,375487],"class_list":["post-895684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-brady-anderson","tag-intellectual-and-developmental-disability-championship","tag-nathan-williams","tag-orlando-tennis-championship","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states-tennis-association","tag-usta-idd-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895684","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=895684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}