The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
No. 3 Men’s Tennis sweeps SEC weekly awards
02.12.2025 | Men's Tennis
Senior Pierre-Yves Bailly was named Athlete of the Week, while Timo Legout was tabbed Freshman of the Week.
Austin – Texas Men's Tennis swept the sport's two SEC weekly awards, the conference announced Wednesday. Senior Pierre-Yves Bailly was named the Athlete of the Week, while Timo Legout was tabbed the Freshman of the Week after both helped the Longhorns to a 4-1 win over No. 1 TCU on Friday.
For Bailly, it marked his first career conference weekly award, while for Legout it was his second after being Co-Freshman of the Week two weeks earlier.
Bailly won both his singles and doubles matches, registering a decisive 6-3, 6-3 top-10 win over No. 9 Lui Maxted at No. 3, which gave the Longhorns a 3-1 lead in the overall match against the Horned Frogs. Bailly had closed the first set with a 3-0 run and the second set with a 5-0 run on the way to the win.
In doubles, Bailly and junior Sebastian Gorzny gave Texas one of its two tiebreaker wins to take the doubles point with a 7-6 (3) victory over Jack Pinnington and Cooper Woestendick at No. 2. The duo rallied from a 4-1 deficit to get to the tiebreaker where they jumped out to a 4-0 lead en route to the 7-3 win.
Bailly is now 5-0 in dual match singles contests as part of an 8-3 overall record. He is also 4-1 in dual match doubles contests with a 9-3 overall record.
Legout posted a decisive 6-1, 6-1 win over No. 18 Jack Pinnington at No. 1 to be first off the court in singles. Both of Pinnington's wins came in the second game of each set with the second one being at deuce. It was one of only three games to reach deuce in the match with the other two going to Legout for 6-1 for the first set and 4-1 in the second. Legout also paired with Lucas Brown in coming up just short in doubles against the No. 2 pair of Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted, 7-5, at No. 1 after TCU broke in the last game to win.
Legout is now 17-2 overall in singles this year, including 4-1 in dual matches, with 11 ranked wins, seven of which are in the top-50. In doubles, he is 14-3 overall and 3-2 in dual contests with five ranked wins and three in the top-20.
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