The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2024-25 Men's Tennis Roster
Roster
Pierre-Yves Bailly
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bilzen, Belgium
- High School:
- Het Heilig Graf
- Major:
- Economics
Pronunciation: EEV BYE-lee
• 2025 CSC Academic All-America Team Member of the Year and First Team
• 2025 CSC Academic All-District
• 2025 SEC Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• 2025 SEC Academic Honor Roll
• 2025 First Team All-SEC
• SEC Men's Tennis Athlete of the Week (February 12, 2025)
• 2024 Big 12 Individual Champion at No. 2 doubles/Eshan Talluri
• 2024 Big 12 All-Tournament Team (No. 4 singles & No. 2 doubles/Eshan Talluri)
• 2023-24 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Qualified as 2023 ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Selected to the 2023 NCAA Championships draw for singles
• 2023 First-Team All-Big 12 (singles)
• 2023 Second-Team All-Big 12 (doubles/Siem Woldeab)
• 2023 Big 12 Individual Champion at No. 2 singles
• 2023 Academic All-Big 12
• 2023 CSC Academic All-District Team
• 2022 ITA Texas Region Newcomer of the Year
• Selected to the 2022 NCAA Championships draw for singles
• 2022 Big 12 Freshman of the Year
• 2022 Second-Team All-Big 12 (singles)
• 2022 Big 12 All-Tournament Team (No. 2 singles)
• 2022 ITA Scholar-Athlete
• Enrolled at Texas in January 2022
• Signed his commitment to compete for The University of Texas Men's Tennis program in October 2021
AS A SENIOR (2024-25)
Fall
• Recorded a 3-4 record in singles, with three of the four losses coming to ranked opponents, and a 5-2 mark in doubles
• Began the fall ranked No. 46 in singles and No. 68 in doubles with Jonah Braswell
• Went a combined 5-1 in singles and doubles at the Big 12/SEC Challenge with a perfect 3-0 mark in doubles with Timo Legout that included an 8-3 win over No. 7 Sebastian Abboud and Piotr Pawlak of Texas Tech
• Also played doubles with Sebastian Gorzny at the ITA Sectional Championships, and logged a 7-5, 6-4 win with Jonah Braswell over No. 43 Danil Pararin and Nathan Cox of Vanderbilt at the ITA All-American Championships
AS A JUNIOR (2023-24)
• Registered a 16-7 overall record in the spring, with a 15-6 mark in dual matches, including 4-1 at No. 3 and 11-5 at No. 4
• Finished 16-7 overall in doubles in the spring with a 15-7 dual match record, including 1-0 at No.1, 14-6 at No. 2 and 0-1 at No. 3
• The dual match doubles record was 11-4 with Eshan Talluri, 3-2 with Siem Woldeab, 1-0 with Gilles-Arnaud Bailly and 0-1 with Lucas Brown
• Attained a high singles ranking of No. 56 on Feb. 7 and final ranking of No. 95
• Logged eight-straight singles wins from March 17 to May 18
• Clinched two overall matches against Lamar and No. 36 Oklahoma State (April 20)
• Clinched seven doubles points against Abilene Christian, Oklahoma State (Jan. 28), No. 13 Michigan and No. 4 South Carolina at the ITA Indoors, No. 2 TCU (March 24), Texas Tech, and Sacramento State and No. 25 UCLA in the NCAA Tournament
• Collected six ranked singles wins over No. 115 Tomas Pinho of UTSA (6-2, 6-1), No. 76 Jelani Sarr of No. 4 South Carolina (6-3, 6-1), No. 102 Lodewijk Weststrate of No. 44 USC (4-6, 6-3, 6-4), No. 72 Lui Maxted of No. 3 TCU (6-3, 6-4), and No. 124 Luciano Tacchi of No. 6 Wake Forest (6-2, 7-6 [4])
• Logged two doubles wins with Eshan Talluri against Nos. 51 and 87 Duncan Chan and Lui Maxted of TCU on March 24 and April 21
Fall
• Notched a 5-3 singles record with two of the three losses coming to ranked opponents, along with a 3-2 doubles mark
• Opened the fall ranked No. 16 in singles and finished No. 49
• Advanced to the singles quarterfinals of the ITA Texas Regionals
• Earned a win with Siem Woldeab over No. 35 Aidan Kim and Tanapatt Nirundorn of Florida at the ITA All-America Championships
• Opened the fall with a win over No. 63 Wojtek Marek of USC, 6-2, 5-7, 6-0 at the Longhorn Invitational
AS A SOPHOMORE (2022-23)
• Registered a 14-9 overall singles record in the spring, with a 12-7 mark in dual matches, including 11-5 at No. 2 and 1-2 at No. 3
• Finished 15-11 overall in doubles with a 15-8 dual match record with all but one of those at No. 2
• Reached a high singles ranking of No. 23 on April 18 and finished the season at No. 26
• Attained a high doubles ranking and final ranking of No. 47 with Siem Woldeab
• Recorded a stretch winning eight of nine singles matches from March 14 to April 22
• Clinched four overall matches against No. 18 Arizona (Feb. 12), No. 1 Ohio State, No. 41 Baylor and No. 3 TCU (April 23)
• Clinched six doubles points against No. 13 Florida, No. 14 Arizona (Jan. 29), No. 9 Wake Forest, No. 40 Texas A&M and twice against Nos. 39 and 35 Oklahoma
• Collected five ranked singles wins, including over No. 1 Ethan Quinn of Ohio State (6-3, 6-4), No. 10 Philip Henning of Georgia (6-3, 7-5), No. 78 Colton Smith of Arizona (6-3, 7-2 [2]), No. 16 Luc Fomba of TCU (7-5, 6-2), and No. 90 Jack Pinnington of TCU (6-2, 5-7, 6-1, while also having three others that he was leading that were unfinished
• Posted four ranked doubles wins, all with Siem Woldeab, including over No. 43 Jonah Braswell and Lukas Greif of No. 13 Florida (6-1), No. 29 Rafa Izquierdo Luque and Joseph Wayand of No. 20 NC State (6-3), No. 33 Brian Cernoch and Benjamin Kittay of No. 14 North Carolina (6-0), and No. 48 Jake Beasley and James Story of No. 8 South Carolina (6-4)
Fall
• Missed fall play due to injury
• Began ranked No. 25 in singles and No. 41 in doubles before finishing unranked in both due to the injury
AS A FRESHMAN (2022)
• Forced to withdraw from NCAA Singles Championship prior to the tournament due to injury
• Posted an 11-8 overall singles record, including 10-7 in dual match play, primarily at No. 2 where he was 8-4, while going 1-1 at No. 1 and 1-2 at No. 3
• Recorded a 4-7 overall doubles record, including 3-5 in dual matches, going 3-4 at No. 2 and 0-1 at No. 3
• Reached as high as No. 17 in the ITA singles rankings on Feb. 23 and finished No. 44
• Missed five matches due to injury, including Rice on Feb. 11, No. 28 Texas A&M on March 9, No. 2 Ohio State on March 12, No. 9 USC on March 15, and No. 21 Pepperdine on March 18
• Named to the Big 12 All-Tournament Team at No. 2 singles after wins over Alex Garcia of Oklahoma State, 6-1, 6-3, and No. 43 Matias Soto of Baylor, 7-5, 6-1
• Also defeated Alex Garcia in the regular season finale at No. 52 Oklahoma State, 6-1, 6-2, at No. 2
• Downed Alex Martinez, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, at No. 2 as part of a 7-0 sweep of No. 38 Oklahoma
• Came up one game short of a win over No. 18 Luc Fomba of No. 1 TCU at after leading, 6-4, 6-5, at No. 1 when the match went unfinished
• Defeated Reed Collier, 6-2, 6-2, in a 7-0 sweep of No. 40 Texas Tech
• Topped No. 3 Ben Shelton, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2, at No. 2 to clinch a 4-3 win over No. 5 Florida after pairing with Siem Woldeab for a 6-2 win over No. 44 Mattias Siimar and Andy Andrade at ITA Indoors
• Downed No. 50 Trey Hilderbrand of UCF for the second time in the spring with a 6-1, 6-4 win as part of a 4-0 sweep
• Partnered with Siem Woldeab for a 6-4 win over Ivailo Keremedchiev and Jesper Klov-Nilsson of Oregon at No. 2 to clinch doubles in a 4-0 sweep
• Had been leading No. 12 Alex Kotzen of Columbia, 6-2, 3-3, at No. 1 before going unfinished, while pairing with Siem Woldeab for a 6-1 win over Kotzen and Roko Horvat at No. 2 to clinch doubles in a 4-0 sweep
• Played five tiebreakers in six sets in winning two matches on a road trip to Arizona with a 6-7 (5), 7-5, 1-0 (9) win over Colton Smith of No. 14 Arizona at No. 3, and a 7-6 (6), 6-7 (5), 1-0 (9) win over Murphy Casson of Arizona State at No. 1
• Earned his first dual match win with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Javier Gonzalez of UTSA at No. 2
• Won his first singles and doubles matches as a Longhorn, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, over No. 16 Trey Hilderbrand of UCF in singles, and 6-3 in doubles with Siem Woldeab against Trent Bryde and Britton Johnston of Georgia at the Miami Spring Invite
BEFORE TEXAS
• Top junior player in Belgium
• Captured his first pro singles title at the Monastir 15K in Tunisia and also reached the doubles final there in November 2021
• Reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Juniors in 2021
• Advanced to the second round of the Roland Garros Juniors in 2021
• Has had a high International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior ranking of No. 7
• Won the Grade 1 tournament in Villena, Spain, in November 2020
• Reached the final of the Grade 1 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, just prior to that in October 2020
