Trevisan Closes Out 25th Ranked Arizona State

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Houston: In less than an hour, freshman Federica Trevisan went from battling to keep 25^th ranked Arizona State off the scoreboard to having the outcome on her racket and she delivered her fourth clinching point of the season to give Rice a 5-2 win on Sunday at the George R. Brown Tennis Center. The win was the Owls first over a top 25 team since 2017.

Doubles: After Michaela Haet and Trevisan opened the doubles with a 6-3 win at the second line, the Sun Devils tied it with a win on three. Maria Budin and Diae El Jardi broke in the fourth game of their match against ASU's 50^th ranked duo of Illze Hattingh and Lauryn John-Baptist and survived a deuce point in the eighth game to take a 6-3 win and give the Owls a 1-0 lead. Budin and El Jardi have picked up wins over ranked opponents in two of their last three matches.

Singles: While Diae El Jardi allowed the Owls to extend their lead early by racing to a 6-1, 6-1 win, the remaining points proved to be difficult to come by as the 25^th ranked Sun Devils extended all to third sets or multiple tie breaks. Trevisan raced to a 6-0 win in her opening set, but after dropping the second 6-1, she found herself trailing 5-2 in the third with the Owls leading only 2-0. She held and then broke ASU's Lauryn John-Baptiste to close to 5-4, but needed to win a deuce point at 5-4 to hold serve and continue, eventually clinching the match with a 7-4 win in the tiebreaker. Anna Bowtell took a 5-0 lead in the third only to see ASU's Giulia Morlet storm back to cut the margin to 5-4 and go back on serve. Bowtell put an to Morlet's comeback hopes with a service break of her own in the next game to extend the lead to 3-0, setting the stage for Trevisan to put the Owls over the top. Michaela Haet added the Owls final point with a three-set win over ASU's 115^th ranked Sammi Hampton.

Notable:

Rice had lost its last 11 against teams ranked in the top 25 since defeating No. 15 Texas A&M 4-1 in College Station in 2017.
Rice evened the series with ASU at 1-1. Rice dropped a 5-2 decision to the 18^th ranked Sun Devils last season in Tempe.
The Owls improved to 5-3 in doubles this season.
Budin and El Jardi improved to 2-1 against ranked opponents this spring and 5-2 on the season.
Haet's win over Hampton was her first this year vs. a ranked opponent and improved the Owls singles mark to 3-2 vs. ranked opponents
Trevisan improved to 6-1 in the dual season, including a 5-0 mark at the third line.

Elizabeth Schmidt: "It was what you would expect from a match like this, There were a lot of ebbs and flows but what remained constant was the grit of our team. I was really proud of the team, across the board on every court. On all three doubles courts and all six singles courts there was a ton of grit. We were running down balls, we were fighting. It was really nice to get that second point up early from Diae. She played a disciplined, high quality match and served really well. We won some first sets and lost the second and we lost some first sets but won the second. When you have two teams in college tennis playing at a high level, you're going to see matches like this. Our team had a lot of belief in themselves and belief in each other. Fedi (Trevisan) has found herself clinching a couple of times. She was tough and kept going to do the work. The crowd was really great and had our backs the whole time. When we would get a little down, you could hear them picking us back up and when we had a great point, the really brought great energy."

Up Next: The Owls continue the homestand on Saturday March 6 at 11 a.m. when they open C-USA play by hosting UTSA. Fans are now permitted to attend matches at GRBTC with the following protocols.

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