Ratkovic Earns Spot in Singles Quarterfinals

WACO – Rice women's tennis wrapped up day three of the ITA Texas Regional Championships on Saturday, with Divna Ratkovic advancing to the singles quarterfinals.

Ratkovic secured her spot in the main draw with a pair of dominant wins, defeating SMU's Allie Bittner and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Kseniya Ramanouskaya by identical 6-1, 6-1 scores.

In doubles consolation play, Ratkovic and Daniela Chica defeated Houston's Natalie Cinkova and Alexia Puiac, 8-5, to advance to the quarterfinals.

Nithesa Selvaraj opened singles play with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Texas Tech's Laura Pop before falling to Texas A&M's Kori Montoya. Uma Bakaityte also earned an opening-round victory, defeating Baylor's Maria Ustic, 6-3, 7-5, before falling to TCU's Sofiia Mykhailets, 7-5, 7-6.

In the consolation singles draw, Anushka Ashar defeated Jana Ruzic, 7-5, 6-2, to advance. Ashar will face North Texas' Stefany Nformi at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Singles main-draw action is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, while Ashar will compete in the consolation draw at 10 a.m.

Results
Doubles
Allie Bittner/Natalie Stasny (SMU) def. Fernanda Martinez/Uma Bakaityte (RICE) 8-6
Maya Chen/Carolina Laydner (UNT) def. Josephine Kunz/Francesca Maguina (RICE) 8-4
Consolation
Divna Ratkovic/Daniela Chica (RICE) def. Natalie Cinkova/Alexia Puiac (Houston) 8-5

Singles
Divna Ratkovic (RICE) def. Allie Bittner (SMU) 6-1, 6-1
Na Dong (Baylor) def. Francesca Maguina (RICE) 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
Nithesa Selvaraj (RICE) def. Laura Pop (TTU) 6-2, 7-5
Uma Bakaityte (RICE) def. Maria Ustic (Baylor) 6-3, 7-5
Divna Ratkovic (RICE) def. Kseniya Ramanouskaya (TAMUCC) 6-1, 6-1
Kori Montoya (TAM) def. Nethisa Selvaraj (RICE) 6-2, 6-3
Sofiia Mykhailets (TCU) def. Uma Bakaityte (RICE) 7-5, 7-6
Consolation
Anushka Ashar (RICE) def. Jana Ruzic 7-5, 6-2
Carolina Laydner (UNT) def. Josephine Kunz (RICE) 6-4, 7-6

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