Tennis

TCU & Texas Set for Big 12 Men’s Tennis Championship

LAWRENCE, Kan. – No. 1 Texas and No. 2 TCU will face off for the fourth time this season at 1 p.m. CT Sunday in the finals of the Big 12 Men’s Tennis Championship after picking up wins over No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 6 Oklahoma State, respectively, at Kansas’ Jayhawk Tennis Center.

TCU started the day with a 4-0 sweep of Oklahoma State before Texas defeated Oklahoma 4-2 in the second match to lock in the Championship match.

No. 2 TCU 4, No. 6 Oklahoma State 0
The Horned Frogs gained an early advantage after finding success on courts two and three with a pair of 6-1 victories in doubles play. Sebastian Gorzny and Pedro Vives took care of business against Isaac Becroft and Alex Garcia before Sander Jong and Lui Maxted wrapped up the doubles point.

TCU completed the sweep in singles play starting with Jack Pinnington defeating Garcia 6-1, 6-3. Maxted followed that with his second point of the morning with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Carl Roothman to make it 3-0. Luc Fomba closed out the match with back-to-back 6-4 sets against Becroft to send the Horned Frogs to the Big 12 Championship match in back-to-back years for the first time since 2016-17.
 
No. 1 Texas 4, No. 4 Oklahoma 2
Texas struck the first blow in a tightly contested doubles round. Cleeve Harper and Eliot Spizzirri walked off first in a 6-4 duel in the Longhorns’ favor, defeating Baptiste Anselmo and Nathan Han. On court three, Jordan Hasson and Siphos Montsi evened the score for the Sooners, getting the best of Micah Braswell and Chih Chi Huang, 6-4.

UT’s Pierre-Yves Bailly and Siem Woldeab rallied on court two after falling behind 5-4 to defeat Alex Martinez and Justin Schlageter, 7-6 (4).

Oklahoma evened the score with a win by Montsi on one of the two courts to end in two sets (6-1, 6-4). Schlageter followed suit and gave the Sooners a 2-1 lead with a victory over Siem Woldeab (6-4, 3-6, 6-1).

Bailly tied it up again in a back-and-forth match that saw the first set end via tiebreaker (7-6 (2), 7-5). Harper gave Texas the lead with a win against Han after dropping the first set (4-6, 6-3, 2-6) before Spizzirri pushed the Longhorns through to their fourth Big 12 Championship appearance in the last five years.