Myslivecek and Gagnon fail to qualify in Austin for ITA national tournament
Junior Paula Myslivecek and senior Jessica Gagnon both played three matches in an effort to qualify for the national tournament.
Myslivecek defeated Allyson Dureu of Stephen F. Austin State 6-0, 6-0 in her first match.
She then went on to defeat Trish Robinson of the University of Texas-El Paso 6-3, 6-4.
It wasn't until Friday that Myslivecek ran into problems.
She fell to Laura Berendt of the University of Texas at Austin 6-4, 6-2.
Gagnon faced a similar fate. In her first match, she defeated Renee Greyventeyn of Southern Methodist University 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Her second match was a 6-1, 7-5 victory over the University of Arkansas' Brandy Brown.
Gagnon was white-washed by Texas' Sandy Sureephong on Friday 6-0, 6-0.
Neither Myslivecek nor Gagnon qualified for the national tournament.
Including the ITA regionals, they finished the fall season with respective records of 8-5 and 7-6.
The tournament wasn't the only news for the team this week. Head Coach Paul Blankenship announced on Wednesday that two high school players have signed national letters of intent to play tennis at Rice.
The first, Elle Lewis, is a 5-9 right-hander from Miami.
She was ranked fifth nationally in doubles in 1994, and she was also ranked 28th in the country in singles action.
Charlotte Feasby, the second signee, was the top-ranked singles player in Alberta in 1995.
The 5-10 right-handed player was ranked fifth in Canada.
The 34th-ranked women's team will open its 1996 dual match season Jan. 27 in a match at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.
This item appeared in the Sports section of the November 17, 1995 issue.
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