{"id":446964,"date":"2026-09-25T03:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446964\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:28:18","slug":"kats-head-to-houston-for-rice-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446964\/","title":{"rendered":"Kats head to Houston for Rice Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">HUNTSVILLE \u2013 The Sam Houston tennis team will continue its fall schedule Friday through Sunday at the Rice Invitational in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day tournament will be played at the George R. Brown Tennis Center. Joining the Bearkats in the 10-team field are host Rice, Baylor, Houston, LA Tech, Northwestern State, SMU, Tulane, UTRGV and UTSA.<\/p>\n<p>Competition begins at 9 a.m. Friday with two rounds of doubles and one round of singles. Saturday&#8217;s schedule features one round each of doubles and singles before the tournament concludes with a final round of singles Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Houston opened its fall schedule last weekend at the Lady Demon Invitational in Natchitoches, La. <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sara-sadadinovic\/12168\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12168\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Sadadinovic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/maria-gajete\/12172\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12172\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Gajete<\/a> went 3-0 to capture the White Draw doubles title, while <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/ivona-savekova\/12169\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12169\" target=\"_blank\">Ivona Savekova<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/isabella-garza\/12166\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12166\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella Garza<\/a> won the White Draw consolation bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Sadadinovic also advanced to the final of the Yellow Singles Draw after earning a pair of straight-set victories. <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anamaria-kurtsikashvili\/12167\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12167\" target=\"_blank\">Anamaria Kurtsikashvili<\/a> posted two singles wins during the weekend, while <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sara-khamitova\/12173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12173\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Khamitova<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/veronika-muzichenko\/12174\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12174\" target=\"_blank\">Veronika Muzichenko<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/isabella-garza\/12166\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12166\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella Garza<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/maria-gajete\/12172\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12172\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Gajete<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/viktorie-zidelova\/12171\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12171\" target=\"_blank\">Viktorie Zidelova<\/a> also earned singles victories.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Rice Invitational, the Kats will travel to Waco for the ITA Texas Regional Championships on Oct. 8-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTSVILLE \u2013 The Sam Houston tennis team will continue its fall schedule Friday through Sunday at the Rice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-446964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}