HOUSTON \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
Competition begins Thursday with qualifying singles. Four Owls will compete in the qualifying rounds, with Fernanda Martinez<\/a> opening play at 8 a.m. against Abilene Christian’s Jessica Board. Sixth-seeded Josephine Kunz<\/a> will face UTSA’s Celine Abaswki at 9:30 a.m., while Daniela Chica<\/a> will take on UTSA’s Akari Tomoyose at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n Francesca Maguina<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Divna Ratkovic<\/a>, Uma Bakaityte<\/a>, Nithesa Selvaraj<\/a> and Anushka Ashar<\/a> will compete in the main singles draw, which begins Friday.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 The Rice women’s tennis team will travel to Waco this week to compete in the ITA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-459695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459695","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=459695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}