Feb. 22, 2002

The University of Missouri women's tennis team fell to Rice on Thursday 4-3 in Houston, Texas. Rice won the doubles point and the two teams split the six singles matches. Missouri is now 3-3 on the season.

The Tiger doubles tandem of sophomore Urska Juric and freshman Katka Sevcikova moved to 5-0 on the season by defeating Jeri Gonzales and Yasmin Fisher 8-1. Juric and Sevcikova are currently the nineteenth ranked doubles team in the nation.

Juric and Sevcikova each also picked up wins in singles play. Juric defeated Gonzales 6-2, 6-1 and Sevcikova downed Natalie Briaud 6-4, 6-3. The other Tiger to win was junior Kristina Olshanskaya. She defeated Fisher 7-6, 6-0.

Missouri will take on Texas A&M at 1:30 p.m. on Friday in College Station, Texas. The Tigers will then travel to Austin, Texas for a dual with Texas on Saturday. The next home action for MU will be March 8, when Oklahoma State will visit the Green Tennis Center at Mizzou.

DOUBLES
1.Urksa Juric/Katka Sevcikova (MU) def. Jeri Gonzales/ Yasmin Fisher (RU) 8-1
2 Judith Hagedorn/Annie Goodrich (RU) def. Mary Barry/Caitlin Thompson (MU) 8-6
3.Natalie Briaud/Karen Chao (RU) def. Kristina Olshanskaya/Lucie Ruskova (MU) 8-2

SINGLES
1. Urska Juric (MU) def. Jeri Gonzales (RU) 6-2, 6-1
2. Katka Sevcikova (MU) def. Natalie Briaud (RU) 6-4, 6-3
3. Judith Hagedorn (RU) def. Mary Barry (MU) 6-2, 6-4
4. Annie Goodrich (RU) def. Caitlin Thompson (MU) 6-4, 6-0
5. Kristina Olshanskaya (MU) def. Yasmin Fisher (RU) 7-6, 6-0
6. Karen Chao (RU) def. Lucie Ruskova (MU) 6-4, 6-0