HOUSTON – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros women's tennis team advanced three student-athletes to singles draw semifinals on a weather-impacted Day One of the Rice Invitational Friday at the George R. Brown Tennis Center.
Rain delayed the action and limited the number of matches played to two per student-athlete, one doubles and one singles. Junior
Yaiza Vazquez and sophomores
Madeleine Joffe and
Rhea Makesar all advanced to the semifinals of their respective singles draws.
Vazquez earned a solid 6-3, 6-3 win over Baylor's Lauren Littell to advance to the semifinals of Flight 4. Joffe stayed hot and battled for a grueling 6-7 (7:9), 7-6 (7:3), 6-1 over UT Arlington's Ioana Dumitrescu to reach the Flight 5 semifinals. Makesar made her UTRGV debut and captured a 7-5, 6-4 win over UTSA's Aoka Nagasawa to advance to the Flight 6 semifinals.
Action continues Saturday starting at 10 a.m. with participants playing two doubles matches in the morning session. The Vaqueros will play one singles match in the afternoon, starting at 12:30 p.m.
UTRGV Friday Results
Doubles
Flight 2
Nanaka Sato/Brooke Thompson (BU) def.
Yaiza Vazquez/
Madeleine Joffe (UTRGV) 6-1
Flight 3 (Round Robin)
Valeriia Ivanovskaia/Maria Araoz-Gosn (UTA) def.
Valentina Urraco/
Hitakamya Narwal (UTRGV) 6-3
Valeria Sanchez/Aoka Nagasawa (UTSA) def.
Mariia Bakhtina/
Rhea Makesar (UTRGV) 6-1
Singles
Flight 4
Yaiza Vazquez (UTRGV) def. Lauren Littell (BU) 6-3, 6-3
Gabriela Cortes (UH) def.
Valentina Urraco (UTRGV) 6-1, 6-0
Flight 5
Valentina Ponce Serrano (Rice) def.
Hitakamya Narwal (UTRGV) 6-4, 7-5
Madeleine Joffe (UTRGV) def. Ioana Dumitrescu (UTA) 6-7 (7:9), 7-6 (7:3), 6-1
Flight 6
Gabriela Felix da Silva (ISU) def.
Mariia Bakhtina (UTRGV) 6-2, 7-6 (7:4)
Rhea Makesar (UTRGV) def. Aoka Nagasawa (UTSA) 7-5, 6-4
UTRGV Saturday Schedule
Doubles
Flight 2 West
Yaiza Vazquez/
Madeleine Joffe (UTRGV) vs. Ashlee Narker/Gabriela Felix da Silva (ISU), 10 a.m.
Yaiza Vazquez/
Madeleine Joffe (UTRGV) vs. Kenna Erickson/Indi Patel (LSU) or Ioana Dumitrescu/Nika Novikova (UTA), 10:45 a.m.
Flight 3 (Round Robin)
Mariia Bakhtina/
Rhea Makesar (UTRGV) vs. Valentina Ponce Serrano/Anushka Ashar (Rice), 10 a.m.
Valentina Urraco/
Hitakamya Narwal (UTRGV) vs. Valeria Sanchez/Aoka Nagasawa (UTSA), 10 a.m.
Mariia Bakhtina/
Rhea Makesar (UTRGV) vs. Valeriia Ivanovskaia/Maria Araoz-Gosn (UTA), 10:45 a.m.
Valentina Urraco/
Hitakamya Narwal (UTRGV) vs. Alessia Tagliente/Emma Cohen (MSU), 10:45 a.m.
Singles
Flight 4 Semifinals
Yaiza Vazquez (UTRGV) vs. Alessia Tagliente (MSU), 12:30 p.m.
Flight 5 Semifinals
Madeleine Joffe (UTRGV) vs. Heta Nuutinen (UH), 12:30 p.m.
Flight 6 Semifinals
Rhea Makesar (UTRGV) vs. Emma Cohen (MSU), 12:30 p.m.
Flight 4 West
Valentina Urraco (UTRGV) vs. Anushka Ashar (Rice), 12:30 p.m.
Flight 5 West
Hitakamya Narwal (UTRGV) vs. Nika Novikova (UTA), 12:30 p.m.
Flight 6 West
Mariia Bakhtina (UTRGV) vs. Indi Patel (LSU), 12:30 p.m.
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