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No. 1 Men's Tennis preview: Lamar/ACU
01.10.2025 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns open the spring dual match season with contests against Lamar and Abilene Christian this weekend.
No. 1 Men's Tennis preview: Lamar/ACU
Team Records: Texas (0-0, 0-0 SEC), Lamar (0-0, 0-0 Southland), ACU (0-0, 0-0 WAC)
When: Lamar – Saturday, January 11, 2025, 1 p.m. CT; ACU – Sunday, January 12, 2025, 11 a.m. CT
Where: Texas Tennis Center, Austin, Texas
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Notes
-Lamar Series: Texas leads, 7-0
Texas leads the all-time series with Lamar, 7-0, after posting a 7-0 win last season at the Texas Tennis Center. Prior to that, the teams had last met in 2016, which was a 6-1 win for the Longhorns.
Last Meeting
#3 Texas 7, Lamar 0
Friday, January 11, 2024
Texas Tennis Center • Austin, Texas
Singles – Order of Finish (3,1,4,6,2,5)
1. #1 Eliot Spizzirri (UT) def. Max Amling (LU) 6-2, 6-1
2. Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. Leon Nickel (LU) 6-3, 6-1
3. #2 Micah Braswell (UT) def. Martin Garcia-Ripoll (LU) 6-1, 6-0
4. #49 Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) def. Brandon Do (LU) 6-2, 6-0
5. #28 Jonah Braswell (UT) def. Joan Crespo (LU) 6-2, 6-2
6. Lucas Brown (UT) def. Haruki Omori-Cowie (LU) 6-1, 6-0
Doubles – Order of Finish
1. Micah Braswell/Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. Max Amling/Haruki Omori-Cowie (LU) 6-2
2. Jonah Braswell/Lucas Brown (UT) def. Brandon Do/Leon Nickel (LU) 6-4
3. Evin McDonald/Eshan Talluri (UT) def. Martin Garcia-Ripoll/Gustav Hasslegren (LU) 6-3
-Texas vs. Lamar in 2024-25 tournament play
ITA Texas Regional Championships
Evan Burnett (UT) def. Haruki Omori-Cowie (LAMAR), 6-0, 6-4
Calvin Wang (UT) def. Leon Nickel (LAMAR), 6-4, 6-3
-ACU Series: Texas leads, 6-0
Texas leads the all-time series with ACU, 6-0, after a 7-0 sweep last year at Weller Indoor Tennis Center. Prior to that, the teams last met in 2017, which was also a 7-0 win for the Longhorns at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center.
Last Meeting
#3 Texas 7, ACU 0
Sunday, January 13, 2024
Weller Indoor Tennis Center • Austin, Texas
Singles – Order of Finish (4,5,2,3,1,6)
1. #1 Eliot Spizzirri (UT) def. Daniel Morozov (ACU) 6-4, 6-2
2. Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. Dario Kmet (ACU) 6-0, 6-2
3. #49 Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) def. Mihaly Deli (ACU) 6-3, 6-1
4. #101 Siem Woldeab (UT) def. Merse Deli (ACU) 6-2, 6-1
5. #28 Jonah Braswell (UT) def. Dennis Dutine (ACU) 6-1, 6-1
6. Lucas Brown (UT) def. Ethan Scribner (ACU) 6-2, 6-2
Doubles – Order of Finish (2,1,3)
1. Siem Woldeab/Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) def. Ethan Scribner/Daniel Morozov (ACU) 6-1
2. Micah Braswell/Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. Dario Kmet/Mihaly Deli (ACU) 6-0
3. Jonah Braswell/Lucas Brown (UT) def. Jose Maria Rastrojo/Merse Deli (ACU) 6-2
-Texas vs. ACU in 2024-25 tournament play
ITA Texas Regional Championships
Calvin Wang (UT) def. 9-16 seed Martin Delnido (ACU), 5-7, 6-1, 6-4
Rahul Sachdev (UT) def. Alejandro Verdasco (ACU), 6-1, 6-4
-ITA Team Rankings
Texas was tabbed No. 1 in the preseason coaches poll released January 6 by the ITA. It's the 94th-straight week in the top 15 dating back to April 2018. Meanwhile, Lamar and ACU were not ranked.
-ITA Individual National Rankings
Texas had five listings in the ITA individual fall postseason rankings that were released December 3 with five in singles and one doubles pair. Texas claimed both the No. 2 and No. 3 players in Sebastian Gorzny and Timo Legout, while Jonah Braswell was also in the top-20 at No. 20, and Lucas Brown was No. 116. In doubles, Legout and Brown were in the top-10 at No. 7.
Texas
Singles
No. 2 Sebastian Gorzny
No. 3 Timo Legout
No. 20 Jonah Braswell
No. 116 Lucas Brown
Doubles
No. 7 Timo Legout/Lucas Brown
Lamar
Singles
N/A
Doubles
N/A
ACU
Singles
N/A
Doubles
No. 90 Ethan Scribner/Benjamin McDonald
-Berque at the Helm
An accomplished coaching veteran with three decades of experience with some of the nation's top tennis programs, Bruce Berque was named the fifth head coach of The University of Texas Men's Tennis program on May 23, 2019. Berque has now completed six seasons as head coach in Austin and has led the Longhorns to a 123-30 overall record (.804) that includes 27-4 last season, 26-4 in 2023, 18-11 in 2022, 24-6 in 2021, 13-3 in a 2020 season that was shortened by the pandemic, and 15-2 in 2019 en route to the guiding Texas to its first team National Championship. During Berque's six seasons at the helm, Texas is the only program in the nation to finish in the top four in five of those six seasons, and it is the only program nationally to make four NCAA Final Fours in that span. It is also one of just two programs to reach the NCAA championship match twice (2019, 2024), along with Virginia. The Longhorns are additionally one of five teams to have been ranked No. 1 at some point during the regular season or post-season in at least three of those years (Ohio State, Virginia, Florida, TCU). Adding in the recent preseason ranking of No. 1, Texas is the only program to be No. 1 in four of those years. During his career, Berque has helped produce four national team champions, seven national individual champions and 12 conference team titles. He has coached 28 All-Americans who collectively have amassed 58 All-America honors, along with two more players who have already qualified for three All-America honors in the upcoming year. Additionally, he has guided seven singles players and three doubles teams to No. 1 national ranking. Texas came within a point of its second national title before coming up just short by a 4-3 score to TCU to finish as NCAA runners-up and with a No. 2 final ranking. As part of a 27-4 overall record, it had been the fourth time the teams had met during the season, resulting in a 2-2 split that also saw the Longhorns claim the Big 12 tournament championship over the Horned Frogs. Meanwhile, UT also secured an outright Big 12 regular season title with a perfect 7-0 record. That marked the fourth time in the five years under Berque where a conference slate was played that Texas took home at least a share of the regular season championship (2019, '21, '23, '24), including three outright (2019, '23, '24). The 2020 season was halted due to the pandemic prior to conference play. The 27 wins was second-most for the program since 2010, trailing only the 29 from the 2019 National Championship season.
-Back from 2024
In the seventh season under head coach Bruce Berque, Texas will have a different look from 2024, but at the same time return a number of familiar faces. Returning with match experience will be a trio of players including senior Pierre-Yves Bailly, junior Jonah Braswell and sophomore Lucas Brown. In addition, four players were on the team last season and redshirted, including Timo Legout, who had a sensational fall season and moved all the way up to No. 3 and No. 7, respectively, in the preseason singles and doubles rankings, along with Evan Burnett, Rahul Sachdev and Calvin Wang.
-Three newcomers arrive for their first dual match season on the 40
The Longhorns add three new faces for 2025, all who are expected to be impact players, starting with Sebastian Gorzny, who transferred from TCU in the summer and is a junior. Two other players just arrived on the 40 Acres this month in Oliver Ojakaar from Estonia, and Sebastian Eriksson from Sweden.
-Fall/Summer Wrap-up
In the first year of the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships being moved to the fall, Timo Legout reached the semifinals of both this past November, combining with Lucas Brown in doubles to qualify as All-Americans. Earlier, Legout and the combination of Legout and Brown won both titles at the ITA Texas Regionals, and junior Jonah Braswell also made the singles final. Sebastian Gorzny additionally finished as the singles runner-up at the ITA All-American Championships.
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