{"id":240776,"date":"2026-04-08T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:08:22","slug":"no-11-mt-heads-to-west-texas-to-face-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240776\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 11 MT Heads to West Texas to Face Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 No.\u00a011\u00a0Baylor men&#8217;s tennis\u00a0is\u00a0on the road\u00a0again after winning all five of\u00a0its\u00a0previous\u00a0home matches.\u00a0The Bears will face\u00a0No. 70 Texas Tech at the McLeod Tennis Center in Lubbock on Thursday, April 9th, at\u00a05:00 p.m. CT.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBaylor (19-7, 5-1) is facing\u00a0Tech following\u00a0its doubleheader\u00a0against Midwestern State and BYU this past week, both resulting in 4-0 decisions for the Bears. Currently on a\u00a0seven-match\u00a0win streak, BU is\u00a0looking to\u00a0keep\u00a0up this\u00a0momentum through the end of\u00a0the regular season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBU\u00a0trails Arizona by a game and sits in a tie with TCU for second place in Big 12 standings. UofA only has No. 15 UCF and Texas Tech\u00a0remaining\u00a0on the schedule, while TCU travels to Oklahoma State before facing Baylor on Sunday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Red Raiders (12-10, 2-5)\u00a0are\u00a0hosting\u00a0Baylor\u00a0after\u00a0their\u00a0loss against No. 10 Arizona\u00a0at home. With a 10-3 home record, Tech will have to rely on\u00a0its No. 76 doubles team,\u00a0Blake\u00a0Hilsen\u00a0and Eyal Shumilov to stay\u00a0competitive\u00a0against the Bears.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bears\u00a0still boast their strong roster\u00a0in singles, with <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/devin-badenhorst\/14539\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14539\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Badenhorst<\/a>\u00a0remaining\u00a0in the\u00a0top-10\u00a0for singles\u00a0at No.\u00a07. Badenhorst is joined by\u00a0No. 35 <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/zsombor-velcz\/14543\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14543\" target=\"_blank\">Zsombor Velcz<\/a> and No.\u00a046 <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/connor-van-schalkwyk\/14546\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14546\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Van Schalkwyk<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor fans who want to follow along,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.playsight.com\/live\/texas-tech-university-tennis\/101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">live video<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.statbroadcast.com\/broadcast\/?id=642837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">live stats<\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0available. The match will also be streamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/player\/_\/id\/e60e3792-ba3b-45a3-9562-254ce1dbeac8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#8211; BaylorBears.com &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 No.\u00a011\u00a0Baylor men&#8217;s tennis\u00a0is\u00a0on the road\u00a0again after winning all five of\u00a0its\u00a0previous\u00a0home matches.\u00a0The Bears will face\u00a0No. 70&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-240776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}