The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2023-24 Men's Tennis Roster
Roster
Lucas Brown
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Hometown:
- Plano, Texas
- High School:
- Laurel Springs School
- Major:
- Aerospace Engineering
• 2025 ITA National Summer Championships singles champion
• 2025 ITA All-American (Doubles)
• 2025 SEC Academic Honor Roll
• 2025 CSC Academic All-America Second Team
• 2025 CSC Academic All-District
• 2024-25 NCAA Doubles semifinalist with Timo Legout (played fall 2024)
• 2024 ITA Texas Regionals doubles champion with Timo Legout
• 2023-24 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• 2023 ITA Texas Regionals singles consolation runner-up
• Signed his commitment to compete for The University of Texas Men's Tennis program in November 2022
AS A SOPHOMORE (2024-25)
• Posted a 15-4 singles record in the spring with an 15-4 mark in dual matches, including 1-0 at No. 3, 1-0 at No. 4, 3-0 at No. 5 and 10-4 at No. 6
• Notched a 16-12 doubles record in the spring with a 16-12 mark in dual matches, including 11-12 at No. 1, 3-0 at No. 2 and 2-0 at No. 3
• Went 13-12 in doubles dual matches with partner Timo Legout, 1-0 with Rahul Sachdev, 1-0 with Jonah Braswell and 1-0 with Sebastian Eriksson
• Logged five straight singles wins from March 30 to May 10
• Clinched overall matches over #14 Texas A&M (Feb. 14), #36 Arkansas, #26 South Carolina (Mar. 30), #37 Cornell and #14 Tennessee (May 10)
• Clinched doubles dual matches over Georgia Tech, #5 Virginia (Feb. 2), #34 Vanderbilt, #26 South Carolina (Mar. 30), Cornell and #16 UCLA
• Collected 10 ranked doubles dual match wins with partner Timo Legout over No. 43 A. de la Bassetiere and Kabeer Kapasi of Rice, No. 19 Krish Arora and Christophe Clement of Georgia Tech, No. 92 Dylan Dietrich and Mans Dalhberg of No. 5 Virginia, No. 29 Niccolo Baroni and M. Martinez Serrano of No. 22 Mississippi State, No. 42 Matic Kriznik and Filip Planinsek of No. 31 Alabama, No. 48 Connor Smillie and Jakub Vrba of No. 36 Arkansas, No. 68 Julien Penzlin and Aleksi Lofman of LSU, No. 15 Connor Thomson and Lucas da Silva of No. 26 South Carolina (Mar. 30), No. 3 Lucas da Silva and Connor Thomson of No. 13 South Carolina (Apr. 20) and No. 9 Alex Kotzen and Alejandro Moreno of No. 14 Tennessee
Fall
• Registered a 10-2 singles record and a 10-4 doubles mark in the fall
• Began the fall ranked No. 31 in doubles with Sebastian Gorzny and finished it No. 7 with Timo Legout
• Began the fall ranked No. 124 in singles and finished No. 116
• Advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Doubles Championships with Timo Legout, falling in match where Legout was slowed by illness
• Opened NCAA Doubles with a 3-6, 6-1, 1-0 (8) win over No. 11 Wally Thayne and Zach Fuchs of BYU
• Won the ITA Texas Regional Championships doubles title with five-straight wins in partnering with Timo Legout for the first time
• Also reached the singles quarterfinals of the ITA Texas Regionals
• Swept three singles matches and won a doubles contest with Evan Burnett at the SEC/Big 12 Challenge
• Began the fall with four-straight singles wins at the ITA All-American Championships to advance from prequalifying into the second round of qualifying
AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2023-24)
• Compiled an 11-1 singles record in the spring, including 9-1 in dual matches, all at No. 6
• Lost a total of just 27 games in his nine dual match singles wins, all of which he won in straight sets (1.5 per set)
• Gathered a 9-2 doubles record in the spring, including 7-2 in dual matches with a 1-0 mark at No. 2 and 6-2 at No. 3
• His dual match doubles record included 4-1 with Cleeve Harper, 2-0 with Jonah Braswell, 1-0 with Eshan Talluri and 0-1 with Pierre-Yves Bailly
• Clinched the overall match against No. 33 Oklahoma State (April 5)
• Clinched three doubles points, including at BYU in a tiebreaker with Cleeve Harper, over No. 25 UCLA in another tiebreaker with Eshan Talluri, and versus No. 7 Tennessee in the NCAA team quarterfinals with Harper
Fall
• Posted a 6-4 singles record and 2-3 doubles mark in the fall
• Came up short in a three-set match to begin singles at ITA Texas Regionals, but went on to win his next three and reach the consolation draw final, which he pushed to a third-set superbreaker where he was downed, 11-9
• Competed in prequalifying at the ITA All-Americans and won his opening match over Sam Bossum of Penn State
• Won two singles matches and one doubles contest at the Longhorn Invitational to begin his career
AS A FRESHMAN (2022-23)
• Redshirted
BEFORE TEXAS
• Rated No. 6 nationally by TennisRecruiting.net
• Won a total of 19 USTA National Balls, including eight gold, nine silver and two bronze
• Earned a No. 1 USTA national ranking in every age division from 12s-18s.
• Reached the doubles semifinals of the Lubbock 15K Futures
• 18s Clay Court Nationals singles semifinalist in 2022 and doubles champion in 2021.
• USTA Winter Nationals singles and doubles finalist in 2021
• Singles finalist and the doubles champion in 2021, and a doubles finalist in 2019 in the 16s division at Kalamazoo
• Orange Bowl singles semifinalist and doubles finalist in 2020
• Completed most of his high school coursework at iUniversity Prep and spent his final semester at the Laurel Springs School.
