{"id":294963,"date":"2026-05-15T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294963\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:49:12","slug":"no-1-mens-tennis-preview-ncaa-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294963\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Men\u2019s Tennis preview: NCAA Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Complete Match Notes<\/a><\/p>\n

No. 1 Men’s Tennis preview: NCAA Semifinals<\/p>\n

2 seed No. 1 Texas vs. 6 seed No. 2 TCU

\nTeam Records:\u00a0Texas (28-6, 12-2 SEC), TCU (25-5, 7-1 Big 12)

\nWhen:\u00a0Saturday, May 16, 2026, 10 p.m. ET\/9 a.m. CT

\nWhere:\u00a0Magill Tennis Complex, Athens, Ga.

\nLive Stats:\u00a0https:\/\/hookem.at\/MTN-Stats<\/a>\u2028

\nBroadcast:\u00a0ESPN+\u00a0https:\/\/hookem.at\/MTN-Watch<\/a><\/p>\n

Tournament Central<\/a><\/p>\n

Updated Statistics<\/a><\/p>\n

Notes<\/p>\n

-What’s at stake

\nTexas will be attempting reach the NCAA National Championship Match for the second time in the last three years and the fourth time in program history (2008, 2019, 2024) since the NCAA Tournament went to its current format in 1977.<\/p>\n

-TCU Series: Texas leads, 71-31-4\u00a0

\nTexas leads the all-time series with TCU, 71-31-4, including a 4-3 win for the Longhorns on February 14 in the quarterfinals of the ITA National Indoor Championship in Waco, and a 4-1 win for the Horned Frogs on March 7 at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center in Austin. The teams played three times last season with each taking a 4-1 regular season 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 went on to face off in the NCAA Semifinals on May 17 in Waco in a match won by the Horned Frogs, 4-2. They met four times in 2024, 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<\/a> at No. 1, but the Horned Frogs came back to win that match and the remaining one with a clinch by current Longhorn Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> over Jonah Braswell<\/a>. 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. Among their other meetings, the teams 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.<\/p>\n

Last 13 Meetings

\n2026: #7 TCU 4, #2 Texas 1 \u2013 Austin, Texas\u00a0

\n2026: #7 Texas 4, #5 TCU 3 \u2013 Waco, Texas (ITA National Indoors Quarterfinals)

\n2025: #2 TCU 4, #3 Texas 2 \u2013 Waco, Texas (NCAA Championship Semifinals)

\n2025: #2 TCU 4, #3 Texas 1 \u2013 Fort Worth, Texas\u00a0

\n2025: #3 Texas 4, #1 TCU 1 \u2013 Austin, Texas

\n2024: #4 TCU 4, #3 Texas 3 \u2013 Stillwater, Okla. (NCAA Championship Final)

\n2024: #5 Texas 4, #3 TCU 0 \u2013 Stillwater, Okla. (Big 12 Championship Final)

\n2024: #8 Texas 5, #2 TCU 0 \u2013 Austin, Texas

\n2024: #2 TCU 4, #10 Texas 3 \u2013 Fort Worth, Texas (non-conference)

\n2023: #3 TCU 4, #1 Texas 1 \u2013 Lawrence, Kansas (Big 12 Championship Final)

\n2023: #1 Texas 5, #3 TCU 2 \u2013 Austin, Texas

\n2023: #3 Texas 4, #1 TCU 1 \u2013 Fort Worth, Texas (non-conference)

\n2023: #3 TCU 4, #7 Texas 0 \u2013 Chicago, Ill. (ITA National Indoors Finals)<\/p>\n

Last Five Box Scores<\/p>\n

#7 TCU 4, #2 Texas 1

\nSaturday, March 7, 2026

\nAustin, Texas \u2022 Weller Indoor Tennis Center

\nSingles \u2013 Order of Finish (4,6,5,2)

\n1. #4 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) vs. #36 Cosme Rolland De Ravel (TCU) 6-4, 6-7 (5), 2-1, unf.

\n2. #9 Duncan Chan (TCU) def. #37 Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3

\n3. #65 Abel Forger<\/a> (TEX) vs. #41 Cooper Woestendick (TCU) 6-4, 6-7 (2), 4-3, unf.

\n4. Jonah Braswell<\/a> (TEX) def. Albert Pedrico (TCU) 6-2, 6-3

\n5. Oliver Bonding (TCU) def. Lucas Marionneau<\/a> (TEX) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3

\n6. Roger Pascual (TCU) def. Mariano Dedura-Palomero<\/a> (TEX) 6-0, 7-6 (8)<\/p>\n

Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (1,2)

\n1. #8 Duncan Chan\/Cosme Rolland De Ravel (TCU) def. #13 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a>\/Lucas Marionneau<\/a> (TEX) 6-2

\n2. Cooper Woestendick\/Albert Pedrico (TCU) def. Abel Forger<\/a>\/Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) 6-4

\n3. Jonah Braswell<\/a>\/Evan Burnett<\/a> (TEX) vs. Oliver Bonding\/Maximus Dussault (TCU) 4-5, unf.<\/p>\n

#7 Texas 4, #5 TCU 3

\nSaturday, February 14, 2026

\nWaco, Texas \u2022 Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center (ITA National Indoors Quarterfinals)

\nSingles \u2013 Order of Finish (5,1,2,3,4,6)

\n1. #10 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) def. #5 Duncan Chan (TCU) 7-6 (2), 6-4

\n2. Kalin Ivanovski<\/a> (TEX) def. #49 Co Rolland De Ravel (TCU) 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-2

\n3. Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. Abel Forger<\/a> (TEX) 6-7 (3), 6-2, 7-5

\n4. #51 Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) def. Oliver Bonding (TCU) 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-4

\n5. Albert Pedrico (TCU) def. Jonah Braswell<\/a> (TEX) 6-2, 6-2

\n6. Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> (TEX) def. Roger Pascual (TCU) 6-3, 7-6 (5)<\/p>\n

Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (2,1)

\n1. Cooper Woestendick\/Oliver Bonding (TCU) def. Abel Forger<\/a>\/Kalin Ivanovski<\/a> (TEX) 6-3

\n2. #22 Co Rolland De Ravel\/Duncan Chan (TCU) def. Sebastian Gorzny<\/a>\/Lucas Marionneau<\/a> (TEX) 6-3

\n3. Filip Apltauer\/Albert Pedrico (TCU) vs. #27 Sebastian Eriksson<\/a>\/Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> (TEX) 5-4, unf.<\/p>\n

#2 TCU 4, #3 Texas 2

\nSaturday, May 17, 2025

\nWaco, Texas \u2022 Hurd Tennis Center (NCAA Championship Semifinals)

\nSingles \u2013 Order of Finish (3,4,5,2,6)

\n1. #8 Jack Pinnington (TCU) vs. #1 Timo Legout<\/a> (TEX) 4-6, 6-3, 4-3, unf.

\n2. #26 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) def. #10 Pedro Vives (TCU) 6-2, 3-6, 6-0

\n3. #37 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #54 Pierre-Yves Bailly<\/a> (TEX) 6-3, 6-0

\n4. Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) def. #95 Cooper Woestendick (TCU) 6-4, 6-0

\n5. Al Pedrico Kravtsov (TCU) def. #72 Jonah Braswell<\/a> (TEX) 7-5, 6-2

\n6. Roger Pascual (TCU) def. Lucas Brown<\/a> (TEX) 6-4, 0-6, 6-3<\/p>\n

Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (3,1)

\n1. #2 Pedro Vives\/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #10 Lucas Brown<\/a>\/Timo Legout<\/a> (TEX) 6-3

\n2. #32 Jack Pinnington\/Cooper Woestendick (TCU) vs. #66 Jonah Braswell<\/a>\/Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) 5-4, unf.

\n3. Al Pedrico Kravtsov\/Duncan Chan (TCU) def. #81 Pierre-Yves Bailly<\/a>\/Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) 6-3<\/p>\n

#2 TCU 4, #3 Texas 1

\nTuesday, March 11, 2025

\nFort Worth, Texas \u2022 Friedman Tennis Center

\nSingles \u2013 Order of Finish (3,1,4,5)

\n1. #20 Jack Pinnington (TCU) def. #7 Timo Legout<\/a> (TEX) 6-4, 6-2

\n2. #2 Pedro Vives (TCU) vs. #13 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) 6-1, 6-7 (2), 0-1, unf.

\n3. #64 Pierre-Yves Bailly<\/a> (TEX) def. #15 Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-2, 6-1

\n4. Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. #39 Jonah Braswell<\/a> (TEX) 6-3, 6-4

\n5. Al Pedrico Kravtsov (TCU) def. Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) 7-6 (2), 6-3

\n6. Roger Pascual (TCU) vs. Lucas Brown<\/a> (TEX) 7-6 (4), 3-4, unf.<\/p>\n

Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (1,2)

\n1. #1 Pedro Vives\/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #10 Lucas Brown<\/a>\/Timo Legout<\/a> (TEX) 6-2

\n2. Cooper Woestendick\/Jack Pinnington (TCU) def. Jonah Braswell<\/a>\/Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) 6-3

\n3. Duncan Chan\/Al Pedrico Kravtsov (TCU) vs. Pierre-Yves Bailly<\/a>\/Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> (TEX) 5-5, unf.<\/p>\n

#3 Texas 4, #1 TCU 1

\nFriday, February 7, 2025

\nAustin, Texas \u2022 Weller Indoor Tennis Center

\nSingles \u2013 Order of Finish (1,2,3,4)

\n1. #11 Timo Legout<\/a> (TEX) def. #18 Jack Pinnington (TCU) 6-1, 6-1

\n2. #6 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #10 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> (TEX) 6-4, 6-3

\n3. #121 Pierre-Yves Bailly<\/a> (TEX) def. #9 Lui Maxted (TCU) 6-3, 6-3

\n4. #21 Jonah Braswell<\/a> (TEX) def. Cooper Woestendick (TCU) 6-4, 6-3

\n5. Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> (TEX) vs. #92 Duncan Chan (TCU) 5-7, 6-2, 2-1, unf.

\n6. Lucas Brown<\/a> (TEX) vs. Albert Pedrico (TCU) 5-0, unf.<\/p>\n

Doubles \u2013 Order of Finish (1,2,3)

\n1. #2 Pedro Vives\/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #5 Timo Legout<\/a>\/Lucas Brown<\/a> (TEX) 7-5

\n2. Sebastian Gorzny<\/a>\/Pierre-Yves Bailly<\/a> (TEX) def. Jack Pinnington\/Cooper Woestendick (TCU) 7-6 (3)

\n3. Jonah Braswell<\/a>\/Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> (TEX) def. Duncan Chan\/Albert Pedrico (TCU) 7-6 (3)<\/p>\n

-ITA Team Rankings

\nTexas was tabbed No. 2 in the preseason poll released January 7 by the ITA and ended up cycling back to that position on March 3, moved to No. 3 on March 10 and back to No. 2 on March 31 before moving up to No. 1 on April 7 where it remains through the rankings just released on April 30. In between, the Longhorns were No. 4 on January 21, No. 5 on January 28, No. 7 on February 4, No. 3 on February 19, and back to No. 4 on February 24. It’s the 122nd-straight rankings week in the top 15 dating back to April 2018.<\/p>\n

-ITA Individual National Rankings

\nTexas had seven listings in the most recent ITA individual rankings that were released April 30\u00a0with five in singles and two\u00a0doubles pairs.<\/p>\n

Texas<\/p>\n

Singles

\nNo. 3 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a>

\nNo. 35 Sebastian Eriksson<\/a>

\nNo. 41 Kalin Ivanovski<\/a>

\nNo. 89 Oliver Ojakaar<\/a>

\nNo. 102 Abel Forger<\/a><\/p>\n

Doubles

\nNo. 21 Sebastian Gorzny<\/a>\/Lucas Marionneau<\/a>

\nNo. 46 Sebastian Eriksson<\/a>\/Oliver Ojakaar<\/a><\/p>\n

TCU<\/p>\n

Singles

\nNo. 8 Duncan Chan

\nNo. 42 Cosme Rolland De Ravel

\nNo. 55 Cooper Woestendick

\nNo. 108 Julian Alonso<\/p>\n

Doubles

\nNo. 4 Duncan Chan\/Cosme Rolland De Ravel

\nNo. 42 Cooper Woestendick\/Albert Pedrico<\/p>\n

-Four-straight Final Fours

\nWith its quarterfinals win over No. 11 Baylor, Texas has reached the NCAA Final Four for the fourth-straight year. The Longhorns are the only team in the nation to advance to the Final Four in six of the last seven years or even make it to five in that span. The next closest are Wake Forest and TCU with four. Baylor claimed the doubles point in an extended set of matches that the Bears emerged from with a 6-3 win at No. 1 and a 7-5 win at No. 3. Texas was sitting on a match point in a tiebreaker at No. 2, 6-6 (8-7), when play stopped. However, the Longhorns followed with singles victories Kalin Ivanovski<\/a> at No. 2, Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> at No. 3, Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> at No. 4, and Lucas Marionneau<\/a> at No. 6 with the clinch.<\/p>\n

-Four-straight Elite Eights

\nNo. 1 Texas Men’s Tennis advanced to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight with a 4-1 win over 15 seed No. 17 San Diego on May 8 at the Texas Tennis Center. It marks the fourth-straight year the Longhorns have reached at least the quarterfinals and the sixth time in the last seven. Texas produced one of its best doubles points of the year with decisive wins at Nos. 1 and 2 and then followed with singles victories by Oliver Ojakaar<\/a> at No. 4, and Lucas Marionneau<\/a> at No. 6. San Diego picked up its lone point at No. 1, but the clinch for the Longhorns came from Sebastian Eriksson<\/a> at No. 3. Eriksson had missed the previous two matches in the tournament with an injury but returned to also be a factor in doubles.<\/p>\n

-Sweet again for the 12th-straight year

\nTexas advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 with a pair of 4-0 sweeps over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on May 1 at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center. and No. 32 SMU on May 2 at the Texas Tennis Center. It marks the 12th-straight year the Longhorns have reached at least the round of 16. Against SMU, Texas secured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 2, and followed with singles victories by Lucas Marionneau<\/a> at No. 6, Abel Forger<\/a> at No. 4, and Kalin Ivanovski<\/a> at No. 2. Meanwhile against TAMCC, Texas took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 3 and 2 and followed with singles victories by Marionneau at No. 5, Mariano Dedura-Palomero<\/a> at No. 6, and Sebastian Gorzny<\/a> at No. 1 for the clinch.<\/p>\n

-Texas earns No. 2 overall seed in the 2026 NCAA Championships

\nUT earned the No. 2 overall seed in the 2026 NCAA Championship field. It marks the fourth-straight year Texas has been a top-three seed, after having been the No. 3 seed last year, No. 2 seed in 2024, and No. 1 seed in 2023. It is also the sixth time in the last seven 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 34th consecutive bid to the NCAA Championships and their 43rd overall selection since the NCAA bracketed tournament was introduced in 1977. They have compiled an 86-41 (.677) all-time record in the tournament. Texas hosted the opening rounds of the NCAA Championships for a ninth-straight year and for the 11th time in the last 12 years in which the tournament has been held. Along with winning the 2019 National Championship, the Longhorns were the national runners-up in 2008 and 2024, and additionally have made it to the semifinals in 1993, 2006, 2009, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. They have reached at least the round of 16 in each of the last 12 years with seven quarterfinals appearances, adding in 2014, 2017 in that span.<\/p>\n

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