WACO \u2013 Rice women’s tennis completed the second day of the ITA Texas Regional at Baylor on Friday, advancing two doubles teams to the round of 16 and earning four singles victories.<\/p>\n
In doubles, Josephine Kunz<\/a> and Francesca Maguina<\/a> advanced to the round of 16 with a pair of 8-3 victories. The duo defeated ACU’s Julia Ionescu and Che Nel before taking down Houston’s Valeriia Krokhotina and Alice Stevens.<\/p>\n Fernanda Martinez<\/a> and Uma Bakaityte<\/a> also advanced after receiving a first-round bye and defeating UTRGV’s Mirka Delaney and Juana Weiss, 8-3.<\/p>\n Anushka Ashar<\/a> and Nithesa Selvaraj<\/a> opened doubles play with an 8-4 win over UIW’s Ine Lamprecht and Jana Ruzic before falling to SMU’s Brooklyn Olson and Sophie Llewellyn, 8-5.<\/p>\n In singles, the Owls recorded four victories to advance to the next round. Divna Ratkovic<\/a> opened the day with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Texas Tech’s Kaili Teso. Maguina followed with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Texas Tech’s Raegan Farm.<\/p>\n Selvaraj earned a three-set victory over UTRGV’s Mariangel Estrella, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, while Bakaityte defeated North Texas’ Lou Chalard, 7-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n Rice will return to the courts Saturday, with doubles beginning at 8 a.m. and singles starting at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n Results Singles \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO \u2013 Rice women’s tennis completed the second day of the ITA Texas Regional at Baylor on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-461881","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\/461881","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=461881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDoubles
\nAnushka Ashar<\/a>\/Nithesa Selvaraj<\/a> (RICE) def. Ine Lamprecht\/Jana Ruzic (UIW) 8-4
\nBrooklyn Olson\/Sophie Llewellyn (SMU) def. Anushka Ashar<\/a>\/Nithesa Selvaraj<\/a> (RICE) 8-5
\nRaegan Farm\/Teodora Prisadnikova (TTU) def. Divna Ratkovic<\/a>\/Daniela Chica<\/a> (RICE) 8-7
\nFernanda Martinez<\/a>\/Uma Bakaityte<\/a> (RICE) def. Mirka Delaney\/Juana Weiss (UTRGV) 8-3
\nJosephine Kunz<\/a>\/Francesca Maguina<\/a> (RICE) def. Julia Ionescu\/Che.Nel (ACU) 8-3
\nJosephine Kunz<\/a>\/Francesca Maguina<\/a> (RICE) def. Valeriia Krokhotina\/Alice Stevens (Houston) 8-3<\/p>\n
\nNatalie Cinkova (Houston) def. Anushka Ashar<\/a> (RICE) 3-6, 6-0, 6-3
\nDivna Ratkovic<\/a> (RICE) def. Kaili Teso (TTU) 6-3, 6-2
\nFrancesca Maguina<\/a> (RICE) def. Raegan Farm (TTU) 6-2, 6-4
\nNithesa Selvaraj<\/a> (RICE) def. Mariangel Estrella (UTRGV) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
\nUma Bakaityte<\/a> (RICE) def. Lou Chalard (UNT) 7-6, 6-3
\nPolina Sleptsova (TTU) def. Josephine Kunz<\/a> (RICE) 6-1, 4-6, 7-6<\/p>\n