{"id":566776,"date":"2026-03-27T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:27:10","slug":"owls-to-compete-at-ita-college-tennis-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566776\/","title":{"rendered":"Owls to Compete at ITA College Tennis Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Match 17 | No. 54 Rice Owls (10-5) vs. UC San Diego (5-11)\u00a0| Friday, March 27 | 1 p.m. CT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLocation:\u00a0La Jolla, Calif. (Northview Tennis Courts)<br \/>\nLive Stats: <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.statbroadcast.com\/statmonitr\/?id=625514\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">StatBroadcast<\/a><br \/>\nSeries:\u00a0First Meeting<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMatch 18 | No. 54 Rice Owls (10-5) vs. San Diego (7-7) | Saturday, March 28 | 1 p.m. CT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLocation:\u00a0San Diego, Calif. (Hogan Tennis Center)<br \/>\nVideo Stream: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.track.tennis\/#\/@031d1592-fcac-4e49-a766-6ccdc5e62c67\/@031d1592-fcac-4e49-a766-6ccdc5e62c67\/evt-7sReom_VmMU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch<\/a><br \/>\nLive Stats: <a href=\"https:\/\/ioncourt.com\/ties\/69a772b336cd30e2cc4bb224?source=my-teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ioncourt<\/a><br \/>\nSeries:\u00a0Tied, 1-1<br \/>\nLast Meeting:\u00a0San Diego, 4-0 (2\/25\/2024)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHOUSTON \u2013 The Rice women&#8217;s tennis team will travel to San Diego this weekend to compete in ITA College Tennis Weekend.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRice enters the weekend 10-5 overall and 4-1 on the road. The Owls went 2-0 last weekend, defeating Tulsa 7-0 and Louisiana Tech 4-0. <a href=\"https:\/\/riceowls.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/uma-bakaityte\/10623\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10623\" target=\"_blank\">Uma Bakaityte<\/a> was named the American Women&#8217;s Tennis Player of the Week on Tuesday after posting a 4-0 record across the two matches.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRice opens the weekend against UC San Diego in the first meeting between the two programs. The Owls will close the weekend against San Diego on Saturday. Rice won the only previous meeting between the teams, earning a 6-1 road victory in 2007.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe matches are part of ITA College Tennis Weekend, an initiative where programs host activities and events designed to increase attendance and encourage community engagement during home matches.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match 17 | No. 54 Rice Owls (10-5) vs. UC San Diego (5-11)\u00a0| Friday, March 27 | 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-566776","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\/566776","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=566776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}