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No. 4 Men’s Tennis defeats LSU, 4-3
03.23.2025 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns won in Baton Rouge to sweep their two weekend road matches and return home 8-0 in the SEC.
Baton Rouge, La. – No. 4 Texas Men's Tennis defeated LSU, 4-3, on Sunday at the LSU Tennis Complex in Baton Rouge. The win provided the Longhorns a sweep of their weekend road matches and moved them to 8-0 in the SEC and 17-3 overall.
After Texas took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 3, LSU won the first singles match at No. 2 to even it. The Longhorns then received three-straight singles victories from freshman Sebastian Eriksson at No. 5, freshman No. 3 Timo Legout at No. 1, and senior No. 46 Pierre-Yves Bailly at No. 3 to clinch. The Tigers then picked up a superbreaker win at No. 6, and a second-set tiebreaker victory at No. 4 for the final margin.
In doubles, the No. 8 duo of Legout and sophomore Lucas Brown was first off the court with a 6-2 win over the No. 68 pair of Julien Penzlin and Aleksi Lofman at No. 1. The Longhorns pushed out to a 3-0 lead with a break in the second game and then broke again on a deuce point for the win.
Bailly and Eriksson then clinched then point with a 6-4 win over Brock Anderson and Alessio Vasquez at No. 3. After LSU held its opening service game, Texas secured consecutive deuce-point wins for a 2-1 lead. The Longhorns break would be the first of three straight, including one at deuce for Texas for a 3-2 lead. The Longhorns consolidated that break for 4-2 and the rest of the match was on serve to the win, including a deuce point that was won by the Tigers to trail, 5-4, which had also been a match point for Texas.
In the remaining match, juniors Sebastian Gorzny and Jonah Braswell had a 5-3 lead over Sasa Markovic and Andrej Loncarevic at No. 2. The Tigers picked up a deuce-point break in the opening game and held for a 2-0 lead. The next three games were also on serve, including consecutive deuce points for the teams for 3-1 and 3-2, until the Longhorns got the break back for 3-3. They then held and broke again for a 5-3 lead before play stopped.
LSU evened the overall score with the first singles win as No. 19 Gorzny fell to Vasquez, 6-4, 6-4, at No. 2. After Gorzny held on a deuce point in the opening game, he later broke first for a 3-1 lead and consolidated for 4-1. However, Vasquez went on a 7-0 run that included consecutive deuce-point wins at the end of the first set and established a 2-0 lead in the second. Vasquez's break in the first game of the second set would turn out to be the difference, as it was the only one of the set on the way to the 6-4 win, despite two deuce-point break chances for Gorzny that Vasquez was able to hold for 4-2 and 5-3.
Eriksson regained the lead for Texas with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Rudy Ceccon. In the first set, Ceccon's first three service games all went to deuce. He held the first for 1-1, but Eriksson broke the next two for a 4-2 lead after Ceccon also broke in between those. Eriksson then consolidated the second one for 5-2, but Ceccon rebounded with a 3-0 run that he capped with a deuce-point hold to preserve the set. However, Eriksson finished it two games later with a hold and a break. That would the start of a 7-0 run that set Eriksson up with a 5-0 lead in the second. Only one of the games during that run reached deuce, which was for 2-0. Ceccon got one game back and saved two match points after a hold at deuce, but Eriksson rifled an ace in the next game for the win.
Legout extended the overall lead to 3-1 with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Penzlin at No. 1. Legout held and broke to begin the match, and after Penzlin broke back on a deuce point held for 2-2, Legout recorded a 5-0 run during which he won the set on a deuce-point break and held the first game of the second. Penzlin also held to start a 3-0 run that finished with consecutive deuce-point wins. Including those two, six of the next eight games reached deuce. Legout got back to 3-2 with a hold, but Penzlin again won consecutive deuce points to take a 5-2 lead. Facing a set point at deuce in the next game, Legout grabbed the break to start another 5-0 run to the finish. That included another set point at deuce that Legout deflected to break for 5-5.
A short time later, Bailly clinched with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) win over Sasa Markovic after another second-set rally. Bailly held and broke on deuce-point to start the match, but Markovic broke back and held for 2-2. The next three games were then on serve, including a deuce-point hold for Markovic for 3-3, until Bailly broke for 5-3 and served out the set. The first two games of the second set both went to deuce and resulted in breaks. Markovic later broke again for 4-2 and consolidated on a deuce point for 5-2. However, Bailly collected consecutive deuce points to start a 3-0 run to even it. Both players held after that to force a tiebreaker where Bailly jumped out to leads of 3-0 and 5-1 en route to a 7-3 win.
That left two matches on the court at Nos. 4 and 6 with No. 6 finishing first as Brown was downed in a superbreaker by Enzo Kohlmann, 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (4). Brown moved out to a 3-0 lead on the strength of a deuce-point break in the second game. Kohlmann later got the break back to trail, 4-3, and consolidated to tie it. The next three games were then on serve until Brown broke for the set, 7-5. Kohlmann broke to begin the second set and held for a 2-0 lead. Brown got the break back for 3-3, but Kohlmann broke again for 4-3, and the last three games were on serve to go to the 10-point breaker. There, Brown served first, but Kohlmann ended up grabbing the first mini-break for a 3-1 lead and secured another for 6-2 on the way to the 10-4 win.
At No. 4, No. 53 Braswell fell to Loncarevic, 6-4, 7-6 (4), for the 4-3 final. It was Braswell who broke in the opening game and held for 2-0. Leading, 3-1, he later had an opportunity to break again on a deuce point for 4-1, but Loncarevic was able to hold for 3-2 to start a 4-0 run that he capped with a deuce-point break for a 5-3 lead. Braswell broke right back, but Loncarevic was able to break again for the set. In the second, Braswell broke first on a deuce point for 2-1 lead, but that was the first of four-straight breaks with the third and fourth of those also coming at deuce, until Loncarevic held again for a 4-3 lead. Another pair of deuce-point breaks made it 5-4 and the last three games were on serve to a tiebreaker. In the breaker, Loncarevic pushed out to a 3-0 lead, but Braswell did one better with a 4-0 run for the lead. However, Loncarevic answered that with another 4-0 run for the win.
The Longhorns will next return to Austin for the final two home matches of the regular season against No. 30 Kentucky on Friday, March 28, at 6 p.m. CT, and No. 18 South Carolina on Sunday, March 30, at 1 p.m. CT.
#4 Texas 4, LSU 3
Singles – Order of Finish (2,5,1,3,6,4)
1. #3 Timo Legout (TEX) def. Julien Penzlin (LSU) 6-2, 7-5
2. Alessio Vasquez (LSU) def. #19 Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 6-4, 6-4
3. #46 Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. Sasa Markovic (LSU) 6-3, 7-6 (3)
4. Andrej Loncarevic (LSU) def. #53 Jonah Braswell (TEX) 6-4, 7-6 (4)
5. Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) def. Rudy Ceccon (LSU) 7-5, 6-1
6. Enzo Kohlmann (LSU) def. Lucas Brown (TEX) 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (4)
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,3)
1. #8 Lucas Brown/Timo Legout (TEX) def. #68 Julien Penzlin/Aleksi Lofman (LSU) 6-2
2. Sasa Markovic/Andrej Loncarevic (LSU) vs. Jonah Braswell/Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 3-5, unf.
3. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) def. Brock Anderson/Alessio Vasquez (LSU) 6-4
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