Saturday, February 25
Beaumont, TX
11 am
Rice University
at
Lamar
Owls Face Lamar on Saturday
2/24/2023 9:49:00 PM | Men's Tennis
11 am first serves
In Brief: Rice hits the road on Saturday morning to face Lamar at the Beaumont Municipal Tennis Center at 11 a.m.
How to Follow:
Score updates will be available on Twitter (@RiceTennis)
The Owls: Rice fell to 3-7 on the season after falling to Tulane 4-3 last Saturday. It was the sixth time this year a match has been decided by a 4-3 score, with Rice posting a 3-3 mark in matches going the distance. Four of seven road matches have been decided by a single point (Rice is 2-2).
Lamar: The Cardinals are 7-5 this season and are coming off a 4-3 home win over Southern Miss last Monday. Rice leads the series 26-1 since 1987 and has won the last five. Current Rice volunteer coach Juuso Laitinen was a five-time All-Southland Conference selection while leading the Cardinals to back-to-back conference titles for the first time in over 40 years. He was a member of the Cardinals' 68th-ranked squad that defeated the 28th-ranked Owls, 4-1 in Beaumont in 2016.
Notable:
Up Next: The Owls will be back on the road next weekend, facing Portland, #55 New Mexico and Penn in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They will close the 2023 regular season by playing seven of the final eight home matches prior to hosting the Conference USA Championship April 21-23.
How to Follow:
Score updates will be available on Twitter (@RiceTennis)
The Owls: Rice fell to 3-7 on the season after falling to Tulane 4-3 last Saturday. It was the sixth time this year a match has been decided by a 4-3 score, with Rice posting a 3-3 mark in matches going the distance. Four of seven road matches have been decided by a single point (Rice is 2-2).
Lamar: The Cardinals are 7-5 this season and are coming off a 4-3 home win over Southern Miss last Monday. Rice leads the series 26-1 since 1987 and has won the last five. Current Rice volunteer coach Juuso Laitinen was a five-time All-Southland Conference selection while leading the Cardinals to back-to-back conference titles for the first time in over 40 years. He was a member of the Cardinals' 68th-ranked squad that defeated the 28th-ranked Owls, 4-1 in Beaumont in 2016.
Notable:
- Six of the Owls first seven matches away from home have come against teams currently ranked in the ITA Top 75. Rice defeated #64 USF and fell to #25 Middle Tennesee, #34 UCSB, #54 FAU, #63 Air Force and #71 Vanderbilt.
- Rice is 6-4 in doubles this season and has a combined record of 12-5 so far this year. The Owls are 2-4 when winning the point, 1-3 when dropping the first point.
- Emir Sendogan has opened the year 8-1 in singles, while freshman Kabeer Kapasi has a 7-1 mark in doubles while partnering with Yasha Zemel (5-0) and Eduardo Morais (2-1)
- Clinch Points: Trinity Grear, Emir Sendogan and Yasha Zemel (1)
Up Next: The Owls will be back on the road next weekend, facing Portland, #55 New Mexico and Penn in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They will close the 2023 regular season by playing seven of the final eight home matches prior to hosting the Conference USA Championship April 21-23.
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