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No. 10 Men’s Tennis preview: at No. 7 TCU [April 18, 2015]
04.17.2015 | Men's Tennis
Longhorns conclude regular season on the road against No. 7 TCU.
Match 23: #10 Texas (18-4, 2-2) at #7 TCU (19-6, 2-2)
Date/Time: Saturday, April 18 • 1 p.m. CT
Location: Fort Worth, Texas • Friedman Tennis Center
Live Scoring • @TexasMTN • Season Stats
TEXAS-TCU SERIES
• Texas leads the all-time series with TCU, 63-17-1.
• The Longhorns have won eight straight matches in the series. The last TCU victory was April 6, 1996 in the Southwest Conference era.
• It is the first top-10 matchup between the schools since TCU joined the Big 12 in 2012.
LAST TIME OUT
• No. 10 Texas lost to No. 2 Baylor, 4-1, in the regular season home finale on Wednesday. It marked just the second home loss for the Longhorns in the last two seasons.
BIG 12 POWER
• All six Big 12 men's tennis teams are ranked in the ITA top-30, including four in the top-10 -- No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 Baylor, No. 7 TCU, and No. 10 Texas. The league is rounded out by 16th-ranked Texas Tech and 29th-ranked Oklahoma State.
• The Big 12 Men's and Women's Tennis Championships begin Thursday, April 23 in Waco, Texas.
SINGLES SUMMARY
• UT's top three positions in singles are a combined 47-11 this season, including a 36-6 mark at singles positions one and two.
• Texas holds a 77-32 (.706) record in singles competition during dual match play.
• Senior Søren Hess-Olesen (26-5, 16-3 dual) has led the Longhorns at the No. 1 singles position in the lineup for four years. Hess-Olesen has a 16-3 record at No. 1 singles and 16 wins over nationally ranked opponents.
• Senior All-American Lloyd Glasspool (16-7, 11-3) has won 11 of his last 13 decisions at No. 2 singles.
• Senior Adrien Berkowicz (27-9, 15-3) has won four straight decisions and leads the team in overall singles wins (27).
• Senior Clement Homs (6-0, 6-0) is undefeated with three match-clinching wins since returning from a knee injury on March 12.
DOUBLES SUMMARY
• Texas holds an 11-0 record during dual match play when earning the team doubles point.
• The Longhorns enter the week with a combined 31-27 (.534) doubles record in the spring.
• The All-American doubles team of Lloyd Glasspool and Søren Hess-Olesen (14-9, 10-7 dual) account for six of UT's nine wins over nationally ranked doubles teams.
• Adrien Berkowicz and George Goldhoff (14-9, 8-5) hold the No. 2 doubles position for Texas.
• At No. 3 doubles, Nick Naumann and Michael Riechmann have a 7-3 record since their first match as a doubles team in March.
HESS-OLESEN ONE AWAY FROM 100TH CAREER WIN
• Senior two-time All-American Søren Hess-Olesen is one win away from becoming the ninth student-athlete in Texas history to reach 100 wins in singles competition. Hess-Olesen enters the week with a 99-37 career singles record. All but one of his 55 wins during dual match competition have been at the No. 1 position in the lineup.
• The Denmark native was the top-ranked singles player in the country during the week of March 24, becoming UT's first No. 1-ranked player since Chad Clark in 1995. This season, Hess-Olesen is 26-4 overall, 16-2 during dual match play, and 16-3 against ranked opponents.
• Hess-Olesen maintained a 17-match winning streak from Jan. 11 to March 17 this season.
• Hess-Olesen is the reigning Big 12 Player of the Year, the reigning regular season champion at No. 1 singles, and a three-time All-Big 12 honoree in singles. Last season he advanced to the NCAA Singles Championship semifinals and earned ITA All-America honors in singles and doubles.
IN THE ITA RANKINGS
Team
7. TCU
10. TEXAS
Singles
5. Søren Hess-Olesen, TEXAS
43. Cameron Norrie, TCU
44. Nick Chappell, TCU
47. Guillermo Nuñez, TCU
48. Lloyd Glasspool, TEXAS
49. Adrien Berkowicz, TEXAS
121. Facundo Lugones, TCU
Doubles
21. Nick Chappell / Will Stein, TCU
23. Lloyd Glasspool / Søren Hess-Olesen, TEXAS
27. Cameron Norrie / Trevor Johnson, TCU
84. Trevor Johnson / Blake Wiggins, TCU