Budin and El Jardi Open NCAA Action on Tuesday
5/23/2022 11:57:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Face North Carolina's Morra and Tanguilig
Maria Budin and Diae El Jardi will open play on Tuesday at the NCAA Women's Doubles Championship when they face North Carolina's Cameron Morra and Carson Tanguilig in the opening round at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex in Champaign, Illinois.
They are the seventh Rice doubles team to earn a berth in the NCAA Doubles Championship and the first to do since 2016. The Rice duo is competing in the national championship nearly 40 years to the day when Rice's Tracie Blumentritt and Susan Rudd began their successful run to the 1982 AIAW National Doubles title (May 31-June 2 in Iowa City, Iowa).
Budin and El Jardi earned an at-large selection when the field was announced on May 4, while their opponents moved into the field from the alternate's pool after Duke's Georgia Dummy and Karolina Berankova withdrew. The winner of Tuesday's opening match will advance to Wednesday's second round and face the winner of the match between Georgia Tech's Carol Lee and Kate Sharabura, who are seeded fourth, and Ayumi Miyamoto and Lisa Marie Rioux of Oklahoma State.
They were 14-5 during the dual season, the most for a Rice doubles team at the first line since Natalie Beazant and Dominique Harmath were 20-6 in 2013. Bezant and Harmath are the only two-time doubles qualifiers from Rice and they were the first to win a match at the NCAA Championship in 2012.
Budin and El Jardi have faced five doubles teams competing at the championship, posting a 2-3 record with wins over Texas A&M's Jayci Goldsmith and Tatiana Makarova and Tulane's Charlotte Russell and Lahari Yelamanchi.
All NCAA doubles matches are the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. A 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
They are the seventh Rice doubles team to earn a berth in the NCAA Doubles Championship and the first to do since 2016. The Rice duo is competing in the national championship nearly 40 years to the day when Rice's Tracie Blumentritt and Susan Rudd began their successful run to the 1982 AIAW National Doubles title (May 31-June 2 in Iowa City, Iowa).
Budin and El Jardi earned an at-large selection when the field was announced on May 4, while their opponents moved into the field from the alternate's pool after Duke's Georgia Dummy and Karolina Berankova withdrew. The winner of Tuesday's opening match will advance to Wednesday's second round and face the winner of the match between Georgia Tech's Carol Lee and Kate Sharabura, who are seeded fourth, and Ayumi Miyamoto and Lisa Marie Rioux of Oklahoma State.
They were 14-5 during the dual season, the most for a Rice doubles team at the first line since Natalie Beazant and Dominique Harmath were 20-6 in 2013. Bezant and Harmath are the only two-time doubles qualifiers from Rice and they were the first to win a match at the NCAA Championship in 2012.
Budin and El Jardi have faced five doubles teams competing at the championship, posting a 2-3 record with wins over Texas A&M's Jayci Goldsmith and Tatiana Makarova and Tulane's Charlotte Russell and Lahari Yelamanchi.
All NCAA doubles matches are the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. A 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
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