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No. 3 Men’s Tennis preview: NCAA Semifinals
05.17.2025 | Men's Tennis
Texas and TCU will face off for the third time this season, and the second time in the Final Four in the past two years, on Saturday.
No. 3 Men's Tennis preview: NCAA Semifinals
3 seed No. 3 Texas vs. 2 seed No. 2 TCU
Team Records: No. 3 Texas (29-4, 13-1 SEC), No. 2 TCU (26-3, 8-0 Big 12)
When: Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7 p.m. CT
Where: Hurd Tennis Center, Waco, Texas
Live Stats: https://hookem.at/MTN-Stats
Broadcast: ESPN+ (Sam Gore [PxP], Luke Jensen [analyst])
Tournament Central
Updated Statistics
Notes
-First serve
Texas enters the match against TCU with a 29-4 record. The 29 wins is tied with the 2019 team for the most in the span since 1975 when teams began playing fewer matches in a season. This season, the Longhorns have wins over No. 1 TCU, No. 5 Virginia, No. 13 Texas A&M, two over South Carolina when they were Nos. 13 and 26, two over No. 14 Tennessee, No. 16 UCLA, No. 18 Arizona State, No. 22 Oklahoma and No. 22 Mississippi State. Meanwhile, two of their four losses have also been by a 4-3 score, and they also have wins against teams from three of their losses, including TCU, Virginia and Tennessee.
-What's at stake
Texas has reached the NCAA semifinals for the third-straight year, and the fifth time in the last six. The Longhorns will now attempt to also advance to the final for the second-straight season and third time in the last six. It would be the fourth appearance in the final in program history (2008, 2019, 2024).
-Texas earns No. 3 overall seed in the 2025 NCAA Championships
UT earned the No. 3 overall seed in the 2025 NCAA Championship field that was announced by the NCAA. It marks the third-straight year Texas has been a top-three seed, after having been the No. 2 seed last year and the No. 1 seed in 2023. It is also the fifth time in the last six years the Longhorns have been in the top four after being No. 4 in 2021 and No. 2 in 2019. The tournament was not held in 2020 due to the pandemic. The Longhorns earned their 33rd consecutive bid to the NCAA Championships and their 42nd overall selection since the NCAA bracketed tournament was introduced in 1977. In winning in this year's first four rounds, they have compiled an 82-40 (.672) all-time record in the tournament. Texas hosted the opening rounds of the NCAA Championships for an eighth-straight year and for the 10th time in the last 11 in which the tournament has been held. UT has also hosted a Super Regional in four of the last five years they have been able to with the exception being in 2022. Also, the round of 16 was instead played at the championship site in 2021 due to the pandemic. Along with winning the 2019 National Championship, the Longhorns were the national runners-up in 2024 and 2008, and additionally have now made it to the semifinals in 1993, 2006, 2009, 2021, 2023 and 2025. They have reached at least the round of 16 in each of the last 11 years with six quarterfinals appearances in 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025 in that span.
-TCU Series: Texas leads, 70-29-4
Texas leads the all-time series with TCU, 70-29-4, with the teams already playing twice this season and each taking a 4-1 decision at home, which for the Longhorns was on February 7 in Austin at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center, and for TCU on March 11 in Fort Worth. They met four times last season, and 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 15 Meetings
2025: #2 TCU 4, #3 Texas 1 – Fort Worth, Texas
2025: #3 Texas 4, #1 TCU 1 – Austin, Texas
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 Three Box Scores
#2 TCU 4, #3 Texas 1
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Fort Worth, Texas • Friedman Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (3,1,4,5)
1. #20 Jack Pinnington (TCU) def. #7 Timo Legout (TEX) 6-4, 6-2
2. #2 Pedro Vives (TCU) vs. #13 Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 6-1, 6-7 (2), 0-1, unf.
3. #64 Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. #15 Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-2, 6-1
4. Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. #39 Jonah Braswell (TEX) 6-3, 6-4
5. Al Pedrico Kravtsov (TCU) def. Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) 7-6 (2), 6-3
6. Roger Pascual (TCU) vs. Lucas Brown (TEX) 7-6 (4), 3-4, unf.
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,2)
1. #1 Pedro Vives/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #10 Lucas Brown/Timo Legout (TEX) 6-2
2. Cooper Woestendick/Jack Pinnington (TCU) def. Jonah Braswell/Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 6-3
3. Duncan Chan/Al Pedrico Kravtsov (TCU) vs. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) 5-5, unf.
#3 Texas 4, #1 TCU 1
Friday, February 7, 2025
Austin, Texas • Weller Indoor Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (1,2,3,4)
1. #11 Timo Legout (TEX) def. #18 Jack Pinnington (TCU) 6-1, 6-1
2. #6 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #10 Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 6-4, 6-3
3. #121 Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. #9 Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-3, 6-3
4. #21 Jonah Braswell (TEX) def. Cooper Woestendick (TCU) 6-4, 6-3
5. Oliver Ojakaar (TEX) vs. #92 Duncan Chan (TCU) 5-7, 6-2, 2-1, unf.
6. Lucas Brown (TEX) vs. Albert Pedrico (TCU) 5-0, unf.
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,2,3)
1. #2 Pedro Vives/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #5 Timo Legout/Lucas Brown (TEX) 7-5
2. Sebastian Gorzny/Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. Jack Pinnington/Cooper Woestendick (TCU) 7-6 (3)
3. Jonah Braswell/Oliver Ojakaar (TEX) def. Duncan Chan/Albert Pedrico (TCU) 7-6 (3)
#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.
-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, moved to No. 3 on February 5, to No. 4 for two weeks, back to No. 3 on March 11, again to No. 4 on March 18, to No. 5 on March 25, back up to No. 3 on April 8, and again at No. 4 on April 15. They returned to No. 3 on April 22 and remained there on May 1, which is the 108th-straight week in the top 15 dating back to April 2018.
-ITA Individual National Rankings
Texas had six listings in the most recent ITA individual rankings that were released May 1 with four in the singles top-75 and one top-10 doubles pair. Texas claimed both the No. 2 and No. 26 players in Timo Legout and Sebastian Gorzny, while Pierre-Yves Bailly was also in the top-60 at No. 54, and Jonah Braswell was No. 72. In doubles, Legout and Brown were No. 10, Gorzny and Braswell were No. 66, and Bailly and Sebastian Eriksson were No. 81.
Texas
Singles
No. 1 Timo Legout
No. 26 Sebastian Gorzny
No. 54 Pierre-Yves Bailly
No. 72 Jonah Braswell
Doubles
No. 10 Timo Legout/Lucas Brown
No. 66 Sebastian Gorzny/Jonah Braswell
No. 81 Pierre-Yves Bailly/Sebastian Eriksson
TCU
Singles
No. 8 Jack Pinnington
No. 10 Pedro Vives
No. 37 Lui Maxted
No. 95 Cooper Woestendick
No. 121 Julian Alonso Vivanco
Doubles
No. 2 Pedro Vives/Lui Maxted
No. 32 Jack Pinnington/Cooper Woestendick
-Trending
Timo Legout
The SEC Player and Freshman of the Year, Timo Legout is currently ranked No. 1 nationally in singles and No. 10 in doubles with a high ranking during the year of No. 5 in doubles. He is 35-3 in singles this year with a 22-2 dual match record and a perfect 12-0 conference record, playing No. 1 in every match. He defeated the No. 1 of every SEC team except Kentucky with that going unfinished while he was up a set and leading in the second set. He has 24 ranked wins, 15 of which are in the top 50. He has notable wins this year over then-No. 4 Cooper Williams of Duke, then-No. 5 Colton Smith of Arizona, then-No. 17 and spring NCAA Singles Champion Filip Planinsek of Alabama, then-No. 17 Stefan Dostanic of Wake Forest, then-No. 18 Jack Pinnington Jones of TCU, then-No. 20 Connor Thomson of South Carolina and No. 20 Rudy Quan of UCLA. He has also played No. 1 in 28 of 30 dual matches in doubles and was 7-5 in the SEC with 12 ranked wins overall this year and seven in the top-30. He and Lucas Brown have won their last four decisions with two of those wins in the top-10. Legout has earned four SEC weekly awards combined between Athlete of the Week and Freshman of the Week. In the fall, he was a semifinalist in both the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, both the singles and doubles champion at the ITA Texas Regionals, and the MVP of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
Sebastian Gorzny
A first-team All-SEC selection, Sebastian Gorzny joined Texas this year after transferring from TCU. He is currently ranked No. 26 in singles and has been as high as No. 2 this year, and he is ranked No. 66 in doubles with Jonah Braswell after being was a doubles All-American last season. Gorzny is 21-10 overall in singles this year, including 15-9 in dual matches where he has played predominantly at No. 2, along with being 6-3 in the SEC. He has 10 ranked singles wins and was leading No. 2 Pedro Vives in a match that went unfinished in March. In the fall, he opened his UT career with five-straight ranked victories, including over then-No. 5 Colton Smith of Arizona, to reach the singles final of the ITA All-American Championships before having to withdraw due to injury prior to the match. He later also defeated then-No. 7 Gavin Young of Michigan in the NCAA Singles Championships. In doubles, he is 19-12 overall, 17-10 in dual matches and 6-6 in the SEC, mostly at No. 2 with Braswell, although he has played with six different partners throughout the year. Gorzny and Braswell have won their last four decisions, including a top-50 win against South Carolina.
Pierre-Yves Bailly
A first-team All-SEC selection, Pierre-Yves Bailly is currently ranked No. 54 in singles and No. 81 in doubles, while during his career he has been ranked as high as No. 17 in singles and No. 41 in doubles. This spring, he has been healthier and has had his best season since he was a freshman, posting a 22-2 singles dual match record with a 7-2 mark in the SEC playing mostly at No. 3 and was either leading or tied in all three of his unfinished SEC matches. He was also the SEC Athlete of the Week on February 12 and was just named the SEC Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Overall this year, he has a 25-6 singles record with five ranked wins and two in the top 15. He had a 10-match winning streak earlier this season and has currently won 12 of his last 13 decisions, including six straight. Both of his dual match losses were to ranked opponents, including No. 25. In doubles, Bailly is 17-9 in dual matches and 8-4 in the SEC, mostly at No. 2, along with being 22-11 overall. He and partner Sebastian Eriksson have won nine of their last 13 decisions. In October, he and Timo Legout had a win over No. 7 Sebastian Abboud and Piotr Pawlak of Texas Tech.
Jonah Braswell
Jonah Braswell is currently ranked No. 72 in singles, but has been as high as No. 20 this year, along with being as high as No. 66 in doubles where he currently is with Sebastian Gorzny. Braswell has produced a 21-9 overall singles record, including 13-5 in dual matches and 4-3 in the SEC, while playing mostly No. 4. He has seven ranked singles victories, including over then-No. 6 Radu Papoe of Cornell in September. He was also the ITA Texas Regionals singles runner-up in the fall and last year's Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. In doubles, Braswell is 16-6 in dual matches and 6-2 in the SEC, mostly at No. 2 in conference play and at No. 3 in non-conference. He is 19-8 overall in doubles this year and 10-4 with Gorzny and they have won their last four decisions, including a top-50.
Sebastian Eriksson
Sebastian Eriksson arrived at Texas in January and made an immediate impact, putting together a 17-5 dual match singles record, including 6-2 in the SEC, mostly at No. 5., including a win over then-No. 92 Mario Martinez Serrano. He secured his highest-ranked win in the NCAA quarterfinals as he topped No. 35 Spencer Johnson of UCLA in straight sets. He also became ranked in doubles with Pierre-Yves Bailly at No. 78 and is now 81 with a 16-7 dual match record and 7-4 in the SEC, mostly at No. 3. The duo has won nine of their last 13 decisions and defeated No. 23 Thomas Paulsell and Ryan Colby of Georgia to help win that doubles point after they moved up to No. 2 in that match.
Lucas Brown
Lucas Brown combines with Timo Legout to form one of the best doubles pairs in the nation, currently ranked No. 10 nationally and having been as high as No. 5. Brown is 16-11 in doubles in dual matches this year and 26-15 overall with 11 ranked wins, six of which are in the top-30. Brown has also posted an outstanding 25-5 overall singles record in his sophomore season, including 15-3 in dual matches and 9-2 in the SEC, mostly at No. 6. He has been ranked as high as No. 116. He has won eight of his last nine singles decisions, clinching the last two against Cornell and Tennessee. In six unfinished dual matches this year, he was leading in four of them with one more even. In the fall, Brown was an NCAA Doubles semifinalist and the ITA Texas Regional doubles champion with Legout, while he was also 10-2 in singles.
Oliver Ojakaar
Oliver Ojakaar joined the Longhorns in January and had an excellent start prior to being injured. He had gone a perfect 8-0 in singles in dual matches, including 2-0 in SEC play. He was also leading both of his two unfinished matches with one in the third set against No. 92 Duncan Chan of TCU. In doubles, Ojakaar has posted a 9-3 record in dual matches and was 2-2 in conference play. He initially partnered with Eriksson, but has also played with Sebastian Gorzny, Jonah Braswell and Pierre-Yves Bailly with Bailly being the most recent.
Evan Burnett
Evan Burnett has stepped into the singles lineup when called on and performed well with a 5-3 dual match record, including 4-2 at No. 6. That has been especially key recently as he has played in significant conference matches due to injuries, including clinching overall matches against Oklahoma and Georgia, along with clinching doubles vs. UGA with Jonah Braswell. He was first off the singles court against Auburn in the SEC quarterfinals and was in solid position against Jan Kobierski of Tennessee in the regular season finale, playing at No. 5. In doubles, he is 4-4 overall and 1-1 in dual matches, and along with the clinch against Georgia, was leading against Tennessee, 5-2, when that match went unfinished.
Rahul Sachdev
Rahul Sachdev earned his first collegiate singles win earlier this year at the ITA Texas Regionals, and his first dual match victory against UTRGV. He has recently played No. 6 against Georgia and Tennessee due to injuries, and although he didn't come away with wins, he took Cyrus Mahjoob of Georgia to three sets. He is also 2-0 in dual match doubles contests with wins against Lamar and UTRGV at No. 3.
-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 is now in his seventh season as head coach in Austin and has led the Longhorns to a 151-34 overall record (.816) that includes 28-4 this season (missed the NCAA first round match vs. Montana due to illness), 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. In reaching the NCAA Final Four this year, Texas is the only program nationally to reach it five times in the last six full seasons. During Berque's previous six seasons at the helm, Texas is the only program in the nation to finish in the top four in five of those. It is also one of just two programs to reach the NCAA championship match twice (2019, 2024), along with Virginia. The Longhorns are one of three teams to have been ranked No. 1 at some point during the season in four of the last seven years along with Ohio State and TCU. During his career, Berque has helped produce four national team champions, seven national individual champions and 14 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 eight singles players and three doubles teams to a No. 1 national ranking, including Timo Legout this season. The 2025 SEC Coach of the Year, Berque has guided the Horns to both the regular season and tournament championships in their debut season in the SEC. In 2024, 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. Meanwhile, UT also secured an outright Big 12 regular season title with a perfect 7-0 record. In six years under Berque where a conference slate was played, Texas has taken home at least a share of the regular season championship five times (2019, '21, '23, '24, '25), including four outright (2019, '23, '24, '25). The 2020 season was halted due to the pandemic prior to conference play. The 29 wins this season are tied with the 2019 team for the most for the program in the era since 1975 when teams began playing shorter schedules. Berque has additionally guided Texas to the semifinals of the ITA National Indoor Championships in two of the last three years (2023, 2025), including the program's first finals appearance in 2023.
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