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No. 3 Men's Tennis preview: No. 1 TCU
02.06.2025 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns host a top-three match-up against the Horned Frogs at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center on Friday.
Team Records: Texas (6-1, 0-0 SEC), TCU (5-0, 0-0 Big 12)
When: Friday, February 7, 2025, 5:30 p.m. CT
Where: Weller Indoor Tennis Center, Austin, Texas
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-TCU Series: Texas leads, 69-28-4
Texas leads the all-time series with TCU, 69-28-4, with the teams playing four times in 2024. The first was a 4-3 non-conference win for the Horned Frogs in Fort Worth on March 2, where the Longhorns had a match point in the deciding singles contest that TCU eventually won. The second was a 5-0 sweep for Texas in Austin on March 24, while the third was a 4-0 sweep for the Longhorns in the Big 12 Championship Final in Stillwater on April 21. The fourth was in the NCAA Championship Final where TCU led 2-0 before the Longhorns rallied for three-straight singles wins and held a 6-2, 4-2 lead by Eliot Spizzirri at No. 1, but the Horned Frogs came back to win that match and win the remaining one with a clinch by current Longhorn Sebastian Gorzny over Jonah Braswell.
They also faced each other four times in 2023, resulting in a 2-2 split. The last of those four was a 4-1 win by TCU in the final of the Big 12 tournament in Lawrence, Kansas. Just prior to that, a 5-2 Texas victory had earned the Longhorns the Big 12 regular season crown in Austin. Like this season, the teams played a non-conference match in Fort Worth on March 22, which the Longhorns won, 4-1. Those UT wins would be the only two defeats of the year for the Horned Frogs until the NCAA Tournament. TCU won the other match on February 20 of that year, 4-0, in the finals of the ITA Indoors in Chicago for the tournament championship.
That had been the fourth-straight win in the series for TCU, which won twice in 2022, first 4-0 in the quarterfinals of the ITA Indoors in Seattle, and then 4-1 in their regular season conference match in Fort Worth. They also took a 4-3 decision in Austin in 2021. Prior to that, they faced off in the quarterfinals of the 2019 NCAA Championships when the Longhorns captured a 4-1 win at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. Texas also won the regular season match-up that year, 6-1, in Fort Worth. The teams did not face each other in 2020 due to the pandemic shortened season.
Last 13 Meetings
2024: #4 TCU 4, #3 Texas 3 – Stillwater, Okla. (NCAA Championship Final)
2024: #5 Texas 4, #3 TCU 0 – Stillwater, Okla. (Big 12 Championship Final)
2024: #8 Texas 5, #2 TCU 0 – Austin, Texas
2024: #2 TCU 4, #10 Texas 3 – Fort Worth, Texas (non-conference)
2023: #3 TCU 4, #1 Texas 1 – Lawrence, Kansas (Big 12 Championship Final)
2023: #1 Texas 5, #3 TCU 2 – Austin, Texas
2023: #3 Texas 4, #1 TCU 1 – Fort Worth, Texas (non-conference)
2023: #3 TCU 4, #7 Texas 0 – Chicago, Ill. (ITA National Indoors Finals)
2022: #1 TCU 4, #11 Texas 1 – Fort Worth, Texas
2022: #4 TCU 4, #14 Texas 0 – Seattle, Wash. (ITA National Indoors Quarterfinals)
2021: #8 TCU 4, #7 Texas 3 – Austin, Texas
2019: #2 Texas 4, #9 TCU 1 – Orlando, Fla. (NCAA Quarterfinals)
2019: #4 Texas 6, #10 TCU 1 – Fort Worth, Texas
Last Four Box Scores
#4 TCU 4, #3 Texas 3
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Stillwater, Okla. • Greenwood Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (4,3,6,2,1,5)
1. #13 Jack Pinnington (TCU) def. #2 Eliot Spizzirri (UT) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
2. #5 Micah Braswell (UT) def. #7 Jake Fearnley (TCU) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
3. #40 Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. #73 Pedro Vives (TCU) 6-2, 6-1
4. #78 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #90 Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) 6-2, 6-4
5. #77 Sebastian Gorzny (TCU) def. #56 Jonah Braswell (UT) 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
6. Cleeve Harper (UT) def. Tomas Jirousek (TCU) 6-3, 6-2
Doubles – Order of Finish (2,1)
1. Jake Fearnley/Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #26 Eliot Spizzirri/Siem Woldeab (UT) 6-4
2. Sebastian Gorzny/Jack Pinnington (TCU) def. Micah Braswell/Eshan Talluri (UT) 6-3
3. Lucas Brown/Cleeve Harper (UT) vs. Duncan Chan/Lui Maxted (TCU) 5-4, unf.
#5 Texas 4, #3 TCU 0
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Stillwater, Okla. • Greenwood Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (5,4,3)
1. #1 Eliot Spizzirri (UT) vs. #10 Jack Pinnington (TCU) 2-6, 7-5, unf.
2. #3 Micah Braswell (UT) vs. #8 Jake Fearnley (TCU) 6-4, 2-6, 2-1, unf.
3. #39 Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. #55 Pedro Vives (TCU) 6-3, 6-4
4. #86 Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) def. #72 Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-3, 6-4
5. Siem Woldeab (UT) def. Duncan Chan (TCU) 6-2, 6-2
6. #59 Jonah Braswell (UT) vs. Tomas Jirousek (TCU) 3-6, 5-2, unf.
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,2,3)
1. Jake Fearnley/Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #22 Eliot Spizzirri/Siem Woldeab (UT) 6-3
2. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Eshan Talluri (UT) def. #87 Duncan Chan/Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-2
3. Micah Braswell/Cleeve Harper (UT) def. Jack Pinnington/Kaj Quirijns (TCU) 6-2
#8 Texas 5, #2 TCU 0
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Austin, Texas • Texas Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (2,4,3,1)
1. #1 Eliot Spizzirri (UT) def. #8 Jack Pinnington (TCU) 4-6, 7-5, 1-0 (12)
2. #2 Micah Braswell (UT) def. #6 Jake Fearnley (TCU) 6-4, 6-3
3. #41 Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. #57 Pedro Vives (TCU) 6-1, 6-2
4. Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) def. #72 Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-2, 6-3
5. Siem Woldeab (UT) vs. Tomas Jirousek (TCU) 7-5, 3-1, unf.
6. Cleeve Harper (UT) vs. Duncan Chan (TCU) 3-6, 6-2, unf.
Doubles – Order of Finish (3,2)
1. #53 Eliot Spizzirri/Siem Woldeab (UT) vs. Jake Fearnley/Jack Pinnington (TCU) 6-5, unf.
2. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Eshan Talluri (UT) def. #51 Duncan Chan/Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-3
3. Micah Braswell/Cleeve Harper (UT) def. Pedro Vives/Tomas Jirousek (TCU) 6-0
#2 TCU 4, #10 Texas 3
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Fort Worth, Texas • Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (4,6,5,2,3,1)
1. #14 Jake Fearnley (TCU) def. #1 Eliot Spizzirri (UT) 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4
2. #2 Micah Braswell (UT) def. #8 Jack Pinnington (TCU) 6-3, 7-6 (5)
3. Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) def. #21 Pedro Vives (TCU) 7-6 (2), 7-5
4. #38 Sebastian Gorzny (TCU) def. #95 Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) 7-6 (6), 6-1
5. #68 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Cleeve Harper (UT) 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
6. #48 Jonah Braswell (UT) def. Tomas Jirousek (TCU) 6-4, 6-0
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,2,3)
1. #5 Sebastian Gorzny/Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #6 Eliot Spizzirri/Cleeve Harper (UT) 6-1
2. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Eshan Talluri (UT) def. Jake Fearnley/Jack Pinnington (TCU) 6-3
3. #31 Duncan Chan/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Micah Braswell/Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (UT) 7-5
-Texas vs. TCU in 2024-25 tournament play
NCAA Championships
5-8 seed Pedro Vives/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Timo Legout/Lucas Brown (UT), 6-4, 6-2 (Semifinals)
ITA Sectional Championships
2 seed Sebastian Gorzny/Pierre-Yves Bailly (UT) def. Duncan Chan/Kaj Quirijns (TCU), 6-4, 6-2
ITA Texas Regionals
3 seed #29 Jonah Braswell (UT) def. Filip Apltauer (TCU), 6-3, 6-4
ITA All-American Championships
#30 Sebastian Gorzny (TEXAS) def. #39 Lui Maxted (TCU), 6-3, 6-4
-ITA Team Rankings
Texas was tabbed No. 1 in the preseason coaches poll released January 6 by the ITA, held that through the first two weeks, and are currently No. 3, which is the 97th-straight week in the top 15 dating back to April 2018. Meanwhile, TCU moved up to No. 1.
-ITA Individual National RankingsTexas had five listings in the ITA individual in the most recent rankings that were released February 5 with four in singles and one doubles pair. Texas claimed both the No. 10 and No. 11 players in Sebastian Gorzny and Timo Legout, while Jonah Braswell was also in the top-25 at No. 21, and Pierre-Yves Bailly was No. 121. In doubles, Legout and Brown were in the top-five at No. 5.
Texas
Singles
No. 10 Sebastian Gorzny
No. 11 Timo Legout
No. 21 Jonah Braswell
No. 121 Pierre-Yves Bailly
Doubles
No. 5 Timo Legout/Lucas Brown
TCU
Singles
No. 6 Pedro Vives
No. 9 Lui Maxted
No. 18 Jack Pinnington
No. 92 Duncan Chan
No. 111 Julian Alonso Vivanco
Doubles
No. 2 Pedro Vives/Lui Maxted
No. 65 Lui Maxted/Duncan Chan
-Just short in Charlottesville
Texas came up just short on the road at No. 5 Virginia, 4-3, at the Boar's Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Va., on Jan. 2. The Longhorns had match points that would have secured the overall win before the Cavaliers rallied. Texas took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 1, and after Virginia won at No. 5 singles, the Longhorns reclaimed the lead with wins by Jonah Braswell at No. 4, and Pierre-Yves Bailly at No. 3. However, the Cavaliers responded with three-straight three-set wins in matches at Nos. 2, 1 and 6 after Texas had won the first set in each of them. The Longhorns also had three match points in a second-set tiebreaker at No. 1.
-Ojakaar representing Estonia in Davis Cup
Freshman Oliver Ojakaar is representing his home country of Estonia in Davis Cup play and will miss the match against Virginia. Ojakaar won his singles match against Ignacio Parisca, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4.
-Legout named SEC Co-Freshman of the Week
Timo Legout was named the SEC Co-Freshman of the Week on Jan. 29. It was his first career conference award and also the first SEC award ever for the program. Legout went a combined 4-0, all at No. 1 singles and doubles, including three ranked wins, and only dropped a total of nine games in leading Texas to wins over Rice and Georgia Tech to claim the ITA Kickoff Weekend regional title. It also advanced the Longhorns to the ITA National Indoor Championships for the seventh-straight year.
-Texas sweeps its way to the ITA Indoors and regional title
Texas won the championship of the ITA Kickoff Weekend Austin Regional with a 4-0 sweep of Georgia Tech at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center on Jan. 26. With the win, the Longhorns advanced to the ITA National Indoor Championships for the seventh-straight year with this year's tournament taking place from February 14-17 in Dallas and Waco, Texas. Texas took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 3 and 1 and continued with singles victories from Timo Legout at No. 1, Sebastian Gorzny at No. 2, and Sebastian Eriksson at No. 5, who clinched the sweep of the overall match. The day before, the Longhorns had swept Rice, 4-0, with double point wins at Nos. 1 and 2 and victories by the same players at the same positions in the same order.
-Horns cool the Sun Devils
Texas topped No. 18 Arizona State, 6-1, at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center on January 19. Although the Sun Devils took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 1, the Longhorns responded with victories from Timo Legout at No. 1, Lucas Brown at No. 6, Pierre-Yves Bailly at No. 3, Jonah Braswell at No. 4 for the clinch, Oliver Ojakaar at No. 5, and Sebastian Gorzny at No. 2.
-UT system win
The Longhorns produced their second-straight 7-0 sweep with win over UTRGV on January 15 at the Texas Tennis Center. After sweeping the doubles point, the Longhorns received victories from Sebastian Gorzny at No. 1, Oliver Ojakaar at No. 4, Jonah Braswell at No. 3 for the clinch, Sebastian Eriksson at No. 5, Rahul Sachdev at No. 6, and Pierre-Yves Bailly at No. 2.
-Two for two on opening weekend
Texas opened the 2025 dual match season with a pair of home wins at the TTC on Jan. 11 and 12 over Lamar (6-1) and ACU (7-0). The wins marked the dual match debuts of several player, including freshmen Sebastian Gorzny, Oliver Ojakaar and Rahul Sachdev, and junior transfer Sebastian Gorzny. Against Lamar, the Longhorns swept the doubles matches and earned singles victories from Eriksson at No. 5, Lucas Brown at No. 3, Gorzny at No. 1 for the clinch, Jonah Braswell at No. 2, and Ojakaar at No. 4. UT again swept three doubles matches against ACU and earned singles victories from Brown at No. 4, Gorzny at No. 1, Eriksson at No. 6, Braswell at No. 3, Ojakaar at No. 5, and Pierre-Yves Bailly at No. 2.
-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 129-31 overall record (.806) that includes 6-1 this season, 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, three 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 and Rahul Sachdev.
-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.
-Year eight at the Texas Tennis Center
Texas is in its eighth year at the Texas Tennis Center with an 86-9 (.905) overall record in its history. Already 4-0 this season, the Longhorns were 10-1 last season, including wins over both No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 TCU with the only loss being a 4-3 decision to No. 1 Virginia. In 2023, Texas was 13-0, and additionally, set an all-time Texas Tennis attendance record of 1,332 against TCU in a match that saw them clinch the Big 12 regular season title. The season before, the Longhorns posted a 10-3 record with the only losses coming to top-five teams by 4-3 scores against No. 1 Florida and No. 2 Ohio State, and 6-0 to No. 4 Baylor. Texas posted a 14-2 mark in 2021, which included wins over No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 9 Florida and No. 15 Arizona. In a shortened season in 2020, UT recorded a 9-0 record with wins against No. 8 Stanford, No. 18 Georgia and No. 21 Florida State. The Longhorns finished 2019 at 15-1, including wins over No. 1 Ohio State, No. 6 Baylor and No. 12 Columbia, along with three NCAA Tournament victories. The lone loss that year came to No. 15 USC. During its inaugural season, Texas posted a 10-2 record, including winning the 2018 Big 12 Tournament.
Players Mentioned
