{"id":512556,"date":"2026-03-01T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:26:08","slug":"rice-mens-tennis-opens-home-slate-against-no-8-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512556\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Men&#8217;s Tennis Opens Home Slate against No. 8 Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Match 10\u00a0| No. 71 Rice Owls (4-5) vs. No. 8 Baylor Bears (7-5)\u00a0| Monday, March 2 | 2 p.m. CT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLocation:\u00a0Houston, Texas (George R. Brown Tennis Center)<br \/>\nVideo Stream: <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.co\/LiveStatsandVideo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlaySight<\/a><br \/>\nLive Stats: <a href=\"https:\/\/sidearmstats.com\/rice\/mten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidearm<\/a><br \/>\nSeries:\u00a0Rice leads, 10-4<br \/>\nLast Meeting:\u00a0Baylor, 6-1 (Feb. 2, 2025)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHOUSTON \u2013 The Rice men&#8217;s tennis team will open its spring 2026 home slate against No. 8 Baylor at the George R. Brown Tennis Center on Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Owls are coming off the Battle in Borrow, where they went 1-2. Rice claimed all three doubles points and came out with a win over Utah but fell to Old Dominion and Middle Tennessee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRice is aiming for its first win over Baylor since a 5-2 victory in Waco in 1996. At the GRBTC, the Owls are 4-1 all-time, though their last home meeting ended in a 5-2 loss in 1998.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis season, Rice is 4-2 when winning the doubles point. <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kabeer-kapasi\/10475\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10475\" target=\"_blank\">Kabeer Kapasi<\/a> leads the Owls with two clinch points, while <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/petro-kuzmenok\/10476\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10476\" target=\"_blank\">Petro Kuzmenok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/rafael-botran\/10620\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10620\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Botran<\/a> have each contributed one.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPROMOTION<br \/>\nThe first 150 fans in attendance will receive free pizza. Fans 21 and older can enjoy free hard seltzers and hard iced tea with a valid ID while supplies last, limited to three drinks per person and served one at a time.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match 10\u00a0| No. 71 Rice Owls (4-5) vs. No. 8 Baylor Bears (7-5)\u00a0| Monday, March 2 | 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-512556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}