Saturday, February 4
Houston, Texas
11 AM
Rice University
vs
LSU
Owls Host LSU
2/3/2023 2:19:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Combined dual with the Rice women's team
In Brief: The Rice men's tennis team will host LSU at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the George R. Brown Tennis Center as part of a combined dual with the Rice women's team who will take on #3 Texas A&M.
Promotions: The Oh My Gogi! food truck, Houston's first Korean-Mexican fusion food truck, will be in front of GRBTC on Saturday and the first 125 fans will receive two free tacos.
How to Follow: Live video and scores for Saturday's match are available at Rice Tennis Live 2023
The Owls: Rice evened its record at 3-3 with a 4-3 win over Elon last weekend, the fifth time in six matches that the final score was 4-3. Unlike the previous four where the match was not decided until the final point, Rice clinch the team victory by winning the doubles points and the first three singles matches.
LSU: The Tigers come to Houston with a 1-1 record after splitting a pair of matches at the ITA Kickoff Weekend Athens Regional. They fell to host Georgia 4-1 and then edged Miami 4-3. LSU leads the series with Rice with a 13-5 record since 2004 and has won the last three in the series. Rice holds a 2-1 lead in matches played at the George R. Brown Tennis Center, but LSU took the most recent meeting here, 4-1 in 2020. Rice's last win over LSU was a 4-3 victory in 2018. This is the fourth time the match with LSU has been part of a combined dual with the women and the first when not combined with the LSU women's team. The two squads met here in 2016 and 2020 and in Baton Rouge in 2019.
GRBTC: Rice is 74-33 in dual action since moving into their current home in the fall of 2014. They are 9-7 in C-USA play and 6-12 all-time against ranked opponents.
Doubling Up: Saturday's combined match is the first of four this season that are combined women's tennis dual. Both teams will host Texas A&M Corpus Christi at 2 p.m. on February 22. On March 26 the men will face William & Mary while the women host Brown at 11 a.m. and the slate of combined matches end on April 8 when the men host UTSA and then women take on SMU.
Notable:
• Rice is 5-1 in doubles this season and has a combined record of 9-3 so far this year. The Owls are 2-3 when winning the point, 1-0 when dropping the first point.
• Five of the first six matches this season have been decided by the seventh point and Rice is 3-2 in 4-3 matches.
• Emir Sendogan has opened the year 6-0 in singles, while freshman Kabeer Kapasi has a 5-0 mark in doubles while partnering with Yasha Zemel (4-0) and Eduardo Morais (1-0)
• Clinch Points: Trinity Grear, Emir Sendogan and Yasha Zemel (1)
Up Next: The Owls head back on the road next weekend to take on Middle Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Their next home dual is February 18 vs. Tulane.
Promotions: The Oh My Gogi! food truck, Houston's first Korean-Mexican fusion food truck, will be in front of GRBTC on Saturday and the first 125 fans will receive two free tacos.
How to Follow: Live video and scores for Saturday's match are available at Rice Tennis Live 2023
The Owls: Rice evened its record at 3-3 with a 4-3 win over Elon last weekend, the fifth time in six matches that the final score was 4-3. Unlike the previous four where the match was not decided until the final point, Rice clinch the team victory by winning the doubles points and the first three singles matches.
LSU: The Tigers come to Houston with a 1-1 record after splitting a pair of matches at the ITA Kickoff Weekend Athens Regional. They fell to host Georgia 4-1 and then edged Miami 4-3. LSU leads the series with Rice with a 13-5 record since 2004 and has won the last three in the series. Rice holds a 2-1 lead in matches played at the George R. Brown Tennis Center, but LSU took the most recent meeting here, 4-1 in 2020. Rice's last win over LSU was a 4-3 victory in 2018. This is the fourth time the match with LSU has been part of a combined dual with the women and the first when not combined with the LSU women's team. The two squads met here in 2016 and 2020 and in Baton Rouge in 2019.
GRBTC: Rice is 74-33 in dual action since moving into their current home in the fall of 2014. They are 9-7 in C-USA play and 6-12 all-time against ranked opponents.
Doubling Up: Saturday's combined match is the first of four this season that are combined women's tennis dual. Both teams will host Texas A&M Corpus Christi at 2 p.m. on February 22. On March 26 the men will face William & Mary while the women host Brown at 11 a.m. and the slate of combined matches end on April 8 when the men host UTSA and then women take on SMU.
Notable:
• Rice is 5-1 in doubles this season and has a combined record of 9-3 so far this year. The Owls are 2-3 when winning the point, 1-0 when dropping the first point.
• Five of the first six matches this season have been decided by the seventh point and Rice is 3-2 in 4-3 matches.
• Emir Sendogan has opened the year 6-0 in singles, while freshman Kabeer Kapasi has a 5-0 mark in doubles while partnering with Yasha Zemel (4-0) and Eduardo Morais (1-0)
• Clinch Points: Trinity Grear, Emir Sendogan and Yasha Zemel (1)
Up Next: The Owls head back on the road next weekend to take on Middle Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Their next home dual is February 18 vs. Tulane.
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