HOUSTON — The Rice women’s tennis team will travel to Waco this week to compete in the ITA Women’s Texas Regional Championship, scheduled for Oct. 8-13.
Competition begins Thursday with qualifying singles. Four Owls will compete in the qualifying rounds, with Fernanda Martinez opening play at 8 a.m. against Abilene Christian’s Jessica Board. Sixth-seeded Josephine Kunz will face UTSA’s Celine Abaswki at 9:30 a.m., while Daniela Chica will take on UTSA’s Akari Tomoyose at 11 a.m.
Francesca Maguina earned a first-round bye and will open competition at 3:30 p.m. against the winner of UTSA’s Laia Peyro and Luna Buijtenhuijs.
Divna Ratkovic, Uma Bakaityte, Nithesa Selvaraj and Anushka Ashar will compete in the main singles draw, which begins Friday.
The Owls will also begin doubles competition Friday in the Round of 64. Ashar and Selvaraj will face an Incarnate Word duo at 8 a.m., while Kunz and Maguina will take on Abilene Christian at 9:30 a.m. Ratkovic and Chica, as well as Bakaityte and Martinez, earned first-round byes.