Rice advanced to the singles quarterfinals at the American Individual Championships and secured five wins at the JAE Foundation Invite on Thursday.<\/p>\n
American Individual Championships In singles, No. 4 seed Maguina defeated Diana Badalyan of Tulane 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 and will take on Kalara Kajabova at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. No. 2 seed Bakaityte defeated Sienna Leeson of South Florida 6-3, 6-2 and will face Lou Chalard of North Texas at 11:30 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n JAE Foundation Invite In singles the Owls faced the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, Kunz won 6-4, 6-2 over Anastasia Sysoeva while Ema Mravcova<\/a> defeated Skye Madatali 6-4, 6-0. Chica rounded out the singles wins with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Aria Nina\u00a0 Avalos.<\/p>\n Action will start at 11 a.m. with doubles followed by singles on Friday.<\/p>\n Results JAE Foundation Invite
\nIn doubles, the team of Uma Bakaityte<\/a> and Francesca Maguina<\/a> fell 8-4 to FAU’s Alexia Patru and Ioana Sava to open the day.<\/p>\n
\nFive Owls collected wins to open the JAE Foundation Invite hosted by TCU in Fort Worth. IN doubles the teams of Daniela Chica<\/a> and Josephine Kunz<\/a> won 6-4 while Anushka Ashar<\/a> and Nithesa Selvaraj<\/a> won 6-3 against Utah doubles teams.<\/p>\n
\nAmerican Individual Championship
\nDoubles
\nAlexia Patru\/Ioana Sava (FAU) def. Uma Bakaityte<\/a>\/Francesca Maguina<\/a> (Rice), 8-4
\nSingles
\nFrancesca Maguina<\/a> (Rice) def. Diana Badalyan (Tulane), 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
\nUma Bakaityte<\/a> (Rice) def. Sienna Leeson (USF), 6-3, 6-2<\/p>\n
\nDoubles
\nDaniela Chica<\/a>\/Josephine Kunz<\/a> (Rice) def. Hayley Roberts\/Mike Lenz (Utah) 6-4
\nAnushka Ashar<\/a>\/Nithesa Selvaraj<\/a> (Rice) def. Emi Dowdell\/Kara Garcia (Utah) 6-3
\nSara Akid\/Hams Merwally (Utah) def. Fernanda Martinez<\/a>\/Ema Mravcova<\/a> (Rice) 6-3
\nSingles
\nBianca Molnar (ND) def. Nithesa Selvaraj<\/a> (Rice) 6-4, 6-2
\nJosephine Kunz<\/a> (Rice) def. Anastasia Sysoeva (ND) 6-4, 6-2
\nJessica Kovalcik (ND) def. Fernanda Martinez<\/a> (Rice) 6-1, 6-7, 10-6
\nEma Mravcova<\/a> (Rice) def. Skye Madatali (ND) 6-4, 6-0
\nEsther Vrlan (ND) def. Anushka Ashar<\/a> (Rice) 6-1, 6-0
\nDaniela Chica<\/a> (Rice) def. Aria Nina Avalos (ND) 6-4, 6-1
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