Feb. 5, 2008
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IRVING, Texas - Rice's Christoph Müller is the Conference USA Men's Tennis Player of the Week after helping the No. 41 Owls earn back-to-back 4-3 road victories at No. 20 North Carolina State and No. 10 North Carolina last weekend. Tulsa's Alexandra Kichoutkin is the C-USA Women's Tennis Player of the Week. Kichoutkin has yet to lose a singles match in dual play with an 8-0 record and last weekend went 2-0 in both singles and doubles against Kansas and UT-Arlington.
MEN'S TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK (2/5)
CHRISTOPH MÜLLER - Rice
Jr., Karlsruge, Germany (Max-Planck-Gymnasium)
Müller was an integral part in No. 41 Rice's back-to-back 4-3 road victories at No. 20 North Carolina State and No. 10 North Carolina over the weekend. Müller teamed with fellow German Ralph Knupfer to upend UNC's top pair of Taylor Fogleman and Chris Kearney to give the Owls the doubles point against UNC. Fogleman and Kearney entered the match as the nation's third-ranked doubles team. Müller also won a pair of three-set decisions at the No. 2 singles position. After losing the first set, Müller fired back by winning the next two sets 6-3, 6-2 over NC State's Nick Cavaday. He broke a 2-2 tie and swung the momentum back to the Owls with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 triumph over UNC's Stefan Hardy. The weekly honor is the second of Müller's career, his first in 2008.
WOMEN'S TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK (2/5)
ALEXANDRA KICHOUTKIN - Tulsa
Fr., New York, N.Y. (Rothberg)
Kichoutkin has yet to lose a singles match in dual play with a record of 8-0. She has played at positions one through three this season. Kichoutkin has won three matches without dropping a game and has only dropped one set throughout the young spring season. Last weekend the freshman defeated Kansas' Elizaveta Avdeeva, 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 and Monika Hadvigerova of Texas-Arlington, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, at No. 2. Her biggest singles wins of season came against No. 33- LSU and No. 69 Loyola Marymount. Kichoutkin is also 6-1 doubles competiton with partner Jie Zeng, including two wins last weekend.This is the first career weekly honor for Kichoutkin.
