Women's Tennis Falls at #53 Rice

Sunday, March 26

Houston, TX

6 p.m. ET

Brown University

Rice

3/26/2023 7:56:00 PM | Women's Tennis

HOUSTON, Texas – The Brown women's tennis team fell to No. 53 Rice 4-1 Sunday evening.

The lone point for the Bears came in singles following a Lindsey Hofflander victory.

Phoebe Peus was leading her singles match when the event was called due to the team result being decided. Addison Ahlstrom also had not finished her match and was in the middle of the third set.

"Rice came out really strong in the first part of our doubles play and even though we were able to make the score close and played much better doubles on a couple of courts, ultimately the score divide Rice created was too large to overcome," head coach Lucie Schmidhauser said. "In singles, we competed well on all courts but couldn't convert in crucial moments and scoreboard opportunities to get ahead. We need to do a better job recognizing opportunities in pressure moments and have the courage and confidence to execute."

"Lindsey continues to play with so much clarity and patience and today's match was no different. I'm excited for the team to have more opportunities to compete this week and find ways to make our opponents more uncomfortable with purposeful and well executed play."

DOUBLES RESULTS
El Jardi/Zipoli (Rice) def. Britany Lau/Addison Ahlstrom (Brown) 6-4
Trevisan/Budin (Rice) def. Nora Lee/Vivian Miller (Brown) 6-2
Schwartzman/Orav (Rice) vs. Lindsey Hofflander/ Phoebe Peus (Brown) 5-4 unf.

SINGLES RESULTS
Zipoli (Rice) def. Ali Benedetto (Brown) 6-3, 6-1
Trevisan (Rice) def. Lau (Brown) 7-6, 6-4
El Jardi (Rice) def. Miller (Brown) 7-6, 6-2
Peus (Brown) vs. Schwartzman (Rice) 6-4, 4-6, 3-1 unf.
Ahlstrom (Brown) vs. Budin (Rice) 6-3, 4-6, 2-3 unf.
Hofflander (Brown) def. Orav (Rice) 6-2, 6-2

UP NEXT
The Bears will take on their second straight ranked opponent this Tuesday, March 28 when they face No. 14 Texas at 3 p.m.

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