MIDLAND, TEXAS (October 11, 2008) The Rice women’s tennis team embarked on the fall season and notched a quartet of first round singles victories Friday at the Midland Invitational.
“It’s one thing to practice and another thing to compete,” head coach Elizabeth Schmidt said. “I was excited that we were finally able to get our fall season started. I was thrilled for Julie, Rebecca, Emily and Ana to pick up opening round wins. At the same time, we also found some things that we need to work on.”
Julie Chao stormed into the Round of 16, dropping only seven games in a pair of straight set victories over Abilene Christian’s Irene Squillaci and Texas Tech’s Simone Templeton. She takes on No. 6 seed Alex Liles of Pepperdine in the Round of 16.
Rebecca Lin took down Rachel Wilheim of North Texas 6-4, 6-1 before dropping a hard-fought 6-4, 7-5 decision to Texas Tech’s Kelsy Garland.
Emily Braid emerged with a gritty 7-6, 1-6, 1-0 (4) triumph over Nikola Matovivoa of UTA but fell 6-1, 6-2 to No. 1 seed Elzé Potgieter of Texas A&M in the second round.
Ana Guzman won her collegiate debut turning in an impressive 6-2, 6-3 win against Shannon MacKenzie of North Texas. Her upset bid of No. 5 seed Madeleine Geibert of Nebraska was spoiled in the super tiebreaker 2-6, 6-2, 1-0 (5).
Varsha Shiva-Shankar and Alex Rasch also picked up consolation wins for the Owls.
Action from Midland continues today.
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