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Owls Add Three
11/18/2021 5:43:00 PM | Men's Tennis
One mid-year and two for 2022-23
Rice men's tennis coach Efe Ustundag announced on Thursday the addition of one student-athlete who will join the team in January and a pair of signees who will join the Owls for the 2022-23 campaign.
Eduardo Morais (Lisbon, Portugal) will join the Owls lineup when the squad opens its 2022 dual campaign in January while Santiago Navarro (Santa Cruz, Bolivia) and Kabeer Kapasi (Houston) have signed letters of intent to join the team next season.\
"I am extremely happy with the quality of individuals we added to our program for this spring and the fall of '22," Ustundag said. "We have three young, hard-working, and talented student-athletes who wanted to be at Rice. I expect Eduardo, Kabeer, and Santiago to make a strong impact on our team over the next four years. Eduardo is a top 10 junior out of Portugal who had a very good summer. Santiago is ranked top two among the under 18s in Bolivia was been invited to the Bolivian Davis Cup Team last month. Kabeer is a top-five junior in Texas. We continue to add student-athletes to our program of high morals and work ethic. I am excited for these guys and can't wait to see what they will do on the court for the Rice Owls."
Morais has a career-best ITF junior ranking of 306 and reached the finals of a G3 singles event in Lousada, Portugal earlier this year. He is also a past national junior champion in Portugal.
Navarro is a past national champion in Bolivia and has been a member of the national team since he was competing in the U 12 division. He has also won tournaments at the J4 level.
Kapasi is ranked as a 5-star recruit by the Tennis Recruiting Network and is ranked 68th nationally in singles and 19th in doubles in the USTA's Boys 18 national standings. He recently reached the singles semifinals and doubles finals at a USTA event in Edmond, Oklahoma.
The Rice men's tennis team will open their 2022 dual campaign on January 15 when they host Denver at the George R. Brown Tennis Center.
Eduardo Morais (Lisbon, Portugal) will join the Owls lineup when the squad opens its 2022 dual campaign in January while Santiago Navarro (Santa Cruz, Bolivia) and Kabeer Kapasi (Houston) have signed letters of intent to join the team next season.\
"I am extremely happy with the quality of individuals we added to our program for this spring and the fall of '22," Ustundag said. "We have three young, hard-working, and talented student-athletes who wanted to be at Rice. I expect Eduardo, Kabeer, and Santiago to make a strong impact on our team over the next four years. Eduardo is a top 10 junior out of Portugal who had a very good summer. Santiago is ranked top two among the under 18s in Bolivia was been invited to the Bolivian Davis Cup Team last month. Kabeer is a top-five junior in Texas. We continue to add student-athletes to our program of high morals and work ethic. I am excited for these guys and can't wait to see what they will do on the court for the Rice Owls."
Morais has a career-best ITF junior ranking of 306 and reached the finals of a G3 singles event in Lousada, Portugal earlier this year. He is also a past national junior champion in Portugal.
Navarro is a past national champion in Bolivia and has been a member of the national team since he was competing in the U 12 division. He has also won tournaments at the J4 level.
Kapasi is ranked as a 5-star recruit by the Tennis Recruiting Network and is ranked 68th nationally in singles and 19th in doubles in the USTA's Boys 18 national standings. He recently reached the singles semifinals and doubles finals at a USTA event in Edmond, Oklahoma.
The Rice men's tennis team will open their 2022 dual campaign on January 15 when they host Denver at the George R. Brown Tennis Center.
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