Rice University Athletics
Rasch and Guzman Find Success on ITA Summer Circuit
7/17/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
July 17, 2009
Rice sophomores Ana Guzman and Alex Rasch captured the women's doubles title last weekend at the ITA Summer Circuit Southeast Regional event held in Gainesville, Fla., capping off a strong weekend for the duo. In addition to capturing the doubles title, both players reached the quarterfinals in the singles competition.
"Both Alex and Ana have been working very hard this summer and it is great to see that hard work pay off with an ITA title," Rice head women's coach Elizabeth Schmidt said. "I am happy that our players have been out there competing this summer and it should really help prepare them for our upcoming season."
The ITA Summer Circuit presented by the USTA is the brainchild of Indiana head women's tennis coach Lin Loring and provides college (and junior) players the opportunity to compete in organized events virtually year round. It is made up of seven regional circuits (East, Southeast, Midwest, Central, Mountain, Southwest and West) and each region consists of four consecutive open tournaments played during the month of July, leading up to the August 8-12 ITA National Summer Championships in Bloomington, Indiana.
The Southeast regional circuit opened play with a stop in Tallahassee, Florida the weekend of July 8-11 and Rasch reached the semifinals of the singles competition. Guzman split a pair of singles matches while teammate Varsha Shivashankar picked up a pair of wins in the consolation bracket.
The circuit moves on to Chapel Hill, North Carolina this weekend before wrapping up with a tournament in Greensboro, NC on July 24-27.
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