Friday, March 3
Fort Worth, TX
5:30 PM
TCU
vs
UT Arlington
No. 1 TCU Returns Home to Face UT Arlington in Outdoor Season-Opener
3/2/2023 9:35:00 AM | Men's Tennis
First serve is set for 5:30 p.m. on Friday on the Bartzen Varsity Courts
FORT WORTH –TCU men's tennis is finally home.
Nearly five weeks have passed since the top-ranked Horned Frogs last took the purple courts. In that span, TCU traversed four cities and three states, defeating seven top-15 opponents along the way. The month-long road swing ultimately culminated in the program's second consecutive ITA Indoor National Championship – a 4-0 blanking of Texas on Feb. 20 in Chicago.
In addition to being a historic hoisting of the chalice – TCU became the first repeat Indoor National Champion in more than a decade – the Horned Frogs' national championship triumph signaled a welcome changing of the seasons and schedule.
The Horned Frogs (12-0) are set to play eight consecutive outdoor matches on the friendly confines of the Bartzen Varsity Courts, beginning with a 5:30 p.m. tilt vs. UT Arlington on Friday.
TCU and UT Arlington were originally scheduled to meet on Tuesday. The reshuffling of the schedule provided the Horned Frogs with extra time to transition to the outdoor courts.
Following Friday's dual vs. the Mavericks, TCU host seven consecutive opponents currently featured in the top-45 of the ITA team rankings, including No. 2 Texas (March 22), No. 8 USC (March 24) and No. 16 Illinois (March 19).
Friday's match is open to the public. Free pizza will be available while supplies last, courtesy of Buffalo Bros.
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Series History: UT Arlington
All-Time: TCU leads 18-1
Home Record: 12-0
Away Record: 6-1
First Meeting: 9-0 TCU, March 22, 1974, in Arlington
Last Meeting: 5-2 TCU, Feb. 2, 2019 in Arlington
Current Winning Streak: TCU W12
Inside the Match
ITA Team Rankings (Feb. 28)
No. 1 – TCU
ITA Singles Rankings (Feb. 21)
No. 13 – Jake Fearnley
No. 32 – Luc Fomba
No. 41 – Sander Jong
No. 82 – Sebastian Gorzny
ITA Doubles Rankings (Feb. 21)
No. 5 – Sander Jong / Lui Maxted
No. 20 – Jake Fearnley / Luc Fomba
Last Match's Singles Lineup
By the time the 2024 season rolls around, nearly two years will have passed since TCU suffered a defeat on the indoor courts.
TCU last lost a dual indoors on Jan. 16, 2022, narrowly falling to Tennessee 4-3 at the indoor Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
Since then, the Horned Frogs have won a program record and nation-leading 24 consecutive indoor matches. Of the victories, 16 have come at the expense of ranked opponents, 11 of which have been road or neutral site affairs.
TCU won 10 straight matches following its lone indoor setback in 2022 to claim the program's first-ever ITA Indoor National Championship. The Horned Frogs avenged the loss to the Volunteers in the championship tilt, taking down Tennessee 4-1 in the Indoor Nationals finale.
The Horned Frogs then completed their first undefeated indoor run from January-February, winning 12 straight matches in route to a second straight Indoor National Championship.
The Horned Frogs have pitched nine shutouts over the course of their 24-match indoor winning streak. In total, TCU has outscored its opponents 82-20.
The program was particularly dominant inside in 2023. TCU claimed 54-of-63 points over its undefeated run. At Indoor Nationals, the Horned Frogs posted a 17-2 combined margin of victory. Just two opponents – No. 2 Kentucky and No. 14 North Carolina – managed to score more than one point vs. the Horned Frogs. TCU trailed just once on the scoreboard all season.
matches in 2022.
Doubles Delight
No program nationwide has been as dominant in doubles play as TCU over the last two seasons.
Since the 2022 campaign commenced, TCU has gone 38-5 in doubles and is currently enjoying a program record and nation-leading streak of 16 straight doubles points. TCU last surrendered the doubles point on Apr. 24, 2022 to Baylor in the Big 12 Tournament Championship.
Court by court, the Horned Frogs are 25-8 on court one, 29-7 out of the No. 2 post and own a 26-7 record in the third flight.
Top Frog Energy
TCU received the top spot in the ITA team rankings for the ninth time in program history on Feb. 28.
The Horned Frogs regained the No. 1 overall ranking on Feb 21 after capturing the ITA Indoor National Championship.
TCU garnered its first No. 1 ranking in program history on March 2, 2022, and received seven of a possible 16 No. 1 rankings throughout the season.
TCU's History atop the ITA Team Rankings
March 2, 2022
March 23, 2022
Apr. 6, 2022
Apr. 13, 2022
Apr. 20, 2022
Apr. 27, 2022
May 4, 2022
Feb 21, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
Protect the Purple
The Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center is arguably the toughest venue in the nation for opposing teams to compete at. TCU has amassed a 99-11 (.900) record on the purple courts since 2015. Of the 99 victories, 61 have come at the expense of ranked opponents. Under head coach David Roditi, the Horned Frogs have posted a remarkable 139-35 (.799) home record.
Nearly five weeks have passed since the top-ranked Horned Frogs last took the purple courts. In that span, TCU traversed four cities and three states, defeating seven top-15 opponents along the way. The month-long road swing ultimately culminated in the program's second consecutive ITA Indoor National Championship – a 4-0 blanking of Texas on Feb. 20 in Chicago.
In addition to being a historic hoisting of the chalice – TCU became the first repeat Indoor National Champion in more than a decade – the Horned Frogs' national championship triumph signaled a welcome changing of the seasons and schedule.
The Horned Frogs (12-0) are set to play eight consecutive outdoor matches on the friendly confines of the Bartzen Varsity Courts, beginning with a 5:30 p.m. tilt vs. UT Arlington on Friday.
TCU and UT Arlington were originally scheduled to meet on Tuesday. The reshuffling of the schedule provided the Horned Frogs with extra time to transition to the outdoor courts.
Following Friday's dual vs. the Mavericks, TCU host seven consecutive opponents currently featured in the top-45 of the ITA team rankings, including No. 2 Texas (March 22), No. 8 USC (March 24) and No. 16 Illinois (March 19).
Friday's match is open to the public. Free pizza will be available while supplies last, courtesy of Buffalo Bros.
Follow Along
Watch: gofrogs.co/3JVOwLz
Live Stats: gofrogs.co/3vWrPif
Series History: UT Arlington
All-Time: TCU leads 18-1
Home Record: 12-0
Away Record: 6-1
First Meeting: 9-0 TCU, March 22, 1974, in Arlington
Last Meeting: 5-2 TCU, Feb. 2, 2019 in Arlington
Current Winning Streak: TCU W12
Inside the Match
- TCU is 10-2 in outdoor home-openers under David Roditi.
- Roditi earned his first career victory as the head coach of his alma mater via a 6-1 home defeat of the Mavericks on Jan. 22, 2011, on the Bartzen Varsity Courts.
- TCU is 9-0 all-time vs. UT Arlington since Roditi took the program reins in 2010.
- The Horned Frogs have surrendered just one point and four combined singles and doubles sets at home in 2023.
- Over his five-year TCU tenure, Luc Fomba has triumphed in singles play on 78 occasions. He earned his second singles win and third of his 148 combined career victories win as a freshman vs. UT Arlington on Feb. 2, 2019, defeating the Mavericks' Miguel Cabrera, 7-5, 6-1, as the Horned Frogs' No. 4 singles player.
- TCU has won seven straight home matches and 17 of its last 20 tilts in Fort Worth dating back to January 2022.
- The Horned Frogs sport a 99-11 (.900) home record since 2015. Under Roditi, TCU has posted a remarkable 139-35 (.799) record at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
- TCU is set to play 12 straight matches vs. opponents ranked in the top-45 of the ITA team rankings following Friday's match.
- TCU is enjoying its best start to a season under Roditi and in the modern era. The Horned Frogs are 12-0 for just the second time in the 49-year history of the program. TCU last won 12 consecutive matches in its eighth year of existence, when the Horned Frogs rattled off 26 straight victories from September 1980-March 1981 under legendary head coach Tut Bartzen.
- TCU became the seventh program to repeat as an Indoor National Champion with its 4-0 shutout of Texas on Feb. 20. The Horned Frogs are the first repeat winners since Virginia claimed consecutive titles in 2010 and 2011.
- The Horned Frogs achieved the No. 1 ITA team ranking for the 10th time in program history on Feb. 28. TCU occupied the top spot in the ITA team rankings in eight of 16 released polls in 2022 and regained its spot atop the tennis world on Feb. 21.
- TCU has boasted a top-10 ITA team ranking for 158 straight weeks - the longest such streak of any Division I program.
- The Horned Frogs have claimed a school record and nation-leading 16 straight doubles points dating back to the 2022 campaign. TCU is 38-5 in doubles play over the last two seasons.
- Fomba and Jake Fearnley, the preseason No. 1 doubles pair, have clinched the doubles point in six of TCU's last 10 outings. They are 31-8 together since 2022.
- Sebastian Gorzny and Pedro Vives are 9-1 as TCU's No. 3 doubles tandem. The duo has staked TCU to 1-0 doubles head starts in each of its three ranked victories.
- In singles action, TCU has won 107-of-137 completed sets thus far. Fomba (8-0), Gorzny (8-0) and Lui Maxted (5-0) each sport perfect records. Fearnley and Sander Jong have combined for nine wins on court one.
- Fomba has surrendered just three combined singles and doubles sets this season. The Frenchman owns a combined 2022-2023 overall record of 26-4. He is 17-1 overall this spring.
ITA Team Rankings (Feb. 28)
No. 1 – TCU
ITA Singles Rankings (Feb. 21)
No. 13 – Jake Fearnley
No. 32 – Luc Fomba
No. 41 – Sander Jong
No. 82 – Sebastian Gorzny
ITA Doubles Rankings (Feb. 21)
No. 5 – Sander Jong / Lui Maxted
No. 20 – Jake Fearnley / Luc Fomba
Last Match's Singles Lineup
- #13 Jake Fearnley (Season: 6-3 / Career: 44-22)
- #32 Luc Fomba (Season: 8-0 / Career: 78-26)
- Jack Pinnington (Season: 2-2 / Career: 2-2)
- #41 Sander Jong (Season: 8-1 / Career: 66-31)
- #82 Sebastian Gorzny (Season: 8-0 / Career: 8-0)
- Tomas Jirousek (Season: 3-1 / Career: 26-13)
- #20 Jake Fearnley / Luc Fomba (Season: 8-1 / Career: 31-8)
- Sander Jong / Jack Pinnington (Season: 3-1 / Career: 3-1)
- Sebastian Gorzny / Pedro Vives (Season: 9-1 / Career: 9-1)
By the time the 2024 season rolls around, nearly two years will have passed since TCU suffered a defeat on the indoor courts.
TCU last lost a dual indoors on Jan. 16, 2022, narrowly falling to Tennessee 4-3 at the indoor Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
Since then, the Horned Frogs have won a program record and nation-leading 24 consecutive indoor matches. Of the victories, 16 have come at the expense of ranked opponents, 11 of which have been road or neutral site affairs.
TCU won 10 straight matches following its lone indoor setback in 2022 to claim the program's first-ever ITA Indoor National Championship. The Horned Frogs avenged the loss to the Volunteers in the championship tilt, taking down Tennessee 4-1 in the Indoor Nationals finale.
The Horned Frogs then completed their first undefeated indoor run from January-February, winning 12 straight matches in route to a second straight Indoor National Championship.
The Horned Frogs have pitched nine shutouts over the course of their 24-match indoor winning streak. In total, TCU has outscored its opponents 82-20.
The program was particularly dominant inside in 2023. TCU claimed 54-of-63 points over its undefeated run. At Indoor Nationals, the Horned Frogs posted a 17-2 combined margin of victory. Just two opponents – No. 2 Kentucky and No. 14 North Carolina – managed to score more than one point vs. the Horned Frogs. TCU trailed just once on the scoreboard all season.
matches in 2022.
Doubles Delight
No program nationwide has been as dominant in doubles play as TCU over the last two seasons.
Since the 2022 campaign commenced, TCU has gone 38-5 in doubles and is currently enjoying a program record and nation-leading streak of 16 straight doubles points. TCU last surrendered the doubles point on Apr. 24, 2022 to Baylor in the Big 12 Tournament Championship.
Court by court, the Horned Frogs are 25-8 on court one, 29-7 out of the No. 2 post and own a 26-7 record in the third flight.
Top Frog Energy
TCU received the top spot in the ITA team rankings for the ninth time in program history on Feb. 28.
The Horned Frogs regained the No. 1 overall ranking on Feb 21 after capturing the ITA Indoor National Championship.
TCU garnered its first No. 1 ranking in program history on March 2, 2022, and received seven of a possible 16 No. 1 rankings throughout the season.
TCU's History atop the ITA Team Rankings
March 2, 2022
March 23, 2022
Apr. 6, 2022
Apr. 13, 2022
Apr. 20, 2022
Apr. 27, 2022
May 4, 2022
Feb 21, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
Protect the Purple
The Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center is arguably the toughest venue in the nation for opposing teams to compete at. TCU has amassed a 99-11 (.900) record on the purple courts since 2015. Of the 99 victories, 61 have come at the expense of ranked opponents. Under head coach David Roditi, the Horned Frogs have posted a remarkable 139-35 (.799) home record.
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