FARMERS BRANCH, Texas

Notre Dame senior All-American Michelle Dasso won three-set matches in singles and doubles to reach the second round of singles and the doubles quarterfinals on the first day of the Rolex National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships at the Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch, Texas. The third-ranked and third-seeded Dasso held off Stanford's 21st-ranked Keiko Tokuda 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 to reach the second round of singles at the third leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association grand slam. She next will meet Arkansas' 30th-ranked Chin Bee Khoo, a 6-4, 6-0 winner over Ohio State's Kristy Dascoli.

The eighth-ranked but unseeded Irish doubles team of Dasso and junior Becky Varnum rallied to beat another Stanford opponent, defeating 13th-ranked Lauren Barnikow and Lauren Kalvaria 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Dasso and Varnum, who used a break of serve at 5-4 in the second set to force a third set, were scheduled to play a late quarterfinal match against Texas' seventh-ranked and fourth-seeded team of Vladka Ulhirova and Janet Walker.

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