Friday, March 31
Fort Worth, TX
5:30 PM
TCU
vs
Oklahoma
No. 3 TCU Opens Big 12 Play with Ranked Duals vs. Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
3/30/2023 8:56:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Horned Frogs face the Sooners at 5:30 p.m. on Friday in conference-opener
FORT WORTH – The most important portion of the regular season for TCU men's tennis begins this weekend.
The third-ranked Horned Frogs (16-1) open Big 12 play with a pair of home duals vs. No. 39 Oklahoma (10-7) and No. 34 Oklahoma State (12-6) on Friday and Sunday, respectively, on the Bartzen Varsity Courts. First serve for Friday's dual vs. the Sooners is set for 5:30 p.m. Sunday's head-to-head with the Cowboys is targeted to begin at 2:30 p.m.
TCU is 7-2 in Big 12 openers and 3-1 when facing off with Oklahoma or Oklahoma State in such contests. The Horned Frogs have opened their conference slate with either the Cowboys or Sooners on four occasions (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016).
The Horned Frogs are enjoying an 11-match winning streak vs. Oklahoma and have won 10 of their last 11 duals with the Cowboys.
A weekend sweep would stake TCU to its third consecutive 2-0 start to conference play. The Horned Frogs have claimed three straight and five of the last six Big 12 regular season championships.
The Horned Frogs' duals with their border rivals are two of three confirmed home contests remaining on TCU's schedule. TCU's regular season home finale is set for Apr. 6 vs. No. 47 Baylor. The Horned Frogs conclude conference play with consecutive road matches at No. 31 Texas Tech on Apr. 8 and at No. 1 Texas on Apr. 15, before taking aim at the Big 12 Championships, held from Apr. 21-23 in Lawrence, Kansas.
Both matches are open to the public. Free pizza will be available while supplies last, courtesy of Buffalo Bros.
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Series History: Oklahoma
All-Time: Texas leads 20-9
Home Record: 11-3
Away Record: 5-3
Neutral Record: 4-3
First Meeting: 7-2 Oklahoma, Feb. 28, 1976, in Corpus Christi
Last Meeting: 4-1 TCU, Apr. 23, 2022, in Fort Worth
Current Winning Streak: TCU W11
Series History: Oklahoma State
All-Time: TCU leads 15-10
Home Record: 5-2
Away Record: 4-3
Neutral Record: 6-5
First Meeting: 5-4 Oklahoma State, Feb.27, 1976, in Corpus Christi
Last Meeting: 5-1 TCU, Apr. 14, 2022, in Stillwater
Current Winning Streak: TCU W2
Inside the Duals
ITA Team Rankings (March 28)
No. 3 – TCU
ITA Singles Rankings (March 21)
No. 16 – Luc Fomba
No. 21 – Jake Fearnley
No. 43 – Sander Jong
No. 71 – Sebastian Gorzny
ITA Doubles Rankings (March 21)
No. 6 – Sander Jong / Lui Maxted
No. 13 – Jake Fearnley / Luc Fomba
By the Numbers: Spring Singles Records
By the Numbers: Spring Doubles Records
The Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center is arguably the toughest venue in the nation for opposing teams to compete at. TCU has amassed a 103-12 (.896) record on the purple courts since 2015. Of the 102 victories, 64 have come at the expense of ranked opponents. Under head coach David Roditi, the Horned Frogs have posted a remarkable 143-36 (.800) home record.
Heres to Five More
As of Tuesday, March 28, five years and one week have passed since TCU last dipped outside the top-25 of the ITA team rankings. The Horned Frogs have spent 266 straight weeks in the top-25 of the ITA team rankings, a streak matched by few other Division I programs.
The streak began on March 21, 2018, when TCU skyrocketed from No. 32 to No. 11 following three straight wins over No. 17 Duke (March 13), No. 12 Florida (March 14) and No. 9 Columbia (March 18)
The trio of top-20 wins ignited a 12-match winning streak to close the regular season. The Horned Frogs concluded the 2016-17 season with a 20-5 overall record and No. 9 final ITA team ranking.
Since then, TCU has spent just one week outside the top-20 of the ITA team rankings.
Consistency is Key
The Horned Frogs are the lone NCAA Division I men's tennis program to have maintained a top-three ITA team ranking in 2023. TCU has sat atop the rankings five times and boasted the No. 3 ranking in six polls (five indoor, one outdoor).
Chasing Down 200
Luc Fomba, TCU's active leader in career combined victories, is 15 wins shy of reaching 200. Since arriving in Fort Worth in 2018, he has tallied 152 combined singles and doubles wins over the course of five spring seasons and sprinkled in an additional 33 in fall invitationals. When Fomba tallies career win No. 200, he will become the first player in 26 years to achieve the milestone and ascend to ninth on TCU's career combined victories list.
Fomba's year-by-year combined records are as follows:
2018-2019: 32-20 (21-7 singles / 11-13 doubles)
2019-2020: 32-12 (19-8 singles / 13-4 doubles)
2020-2021: 42-22 (22-9 singles / 20-13 doubles)
2021-2022: 48-16 (23-8 singles / 25-8 doubles)
2022-2023: 30-6 (16-3 singles / 14-4 doubles)
Jong Nears 150th Spring Season Victory
Ahead of TCU's Big 12 opener, Sander Jong is 13 victories away from joining Fomba as one of two players in TCU's Big 12 era to win 150 combined singles and doubles matches during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Jong owns a combined spring record of 137-65 (68-30 singles, 69-35 doubles) and boasts 172 career victories (83 doubles, 79 singles) when factoring in results from team sponsored fall invitationals.
Say it Ain't so, Seb
Sebastian Gorzny has lived up to his billing as the No. 5 overall player in the ITA preseason freshman/newcomer rankings.
Since arriving in Fort Worth in August, Gorzny has played to a 30-4 overall record. He went 7-2 in singles and doubles action in his TCU debut at the ITA Texas Regional, advancing all the way to the singles semifinals of the tournament.
During the indoor season, Gorzny went 9-1 in doubles play alongside Pedro Vives.
Nine of his 11 spring singles victories have been in straight sets. He has been victorious on courts three through six at least once in 2023. Gorzny earned the match-clincher over No. 112 Cleeve Harper in TCU's ITA Indoor National Championship triumph over Texas.
The third-ranked Horned Frogs (16-1) open Big 12 play with a pair of home duals vs. No. 39 Oklahoma (10-7) and No. 34 Oklahoma State (12-6) on Friday and Sunday, respectively, on the Bartzen Varsity Courts. First serve for Friday's dual vs. the Sooners is set for 5:30 p.m. Sunday's head-to-head with the Cowboys is targeted to begin at 2:30 p.m.
TCU is 7-2 in Big 12 openers and 3-1 when facing off with Oklahoma or Oklahoma State in such contests. The Horned Frogs have opened their conference slate with either the Cowboys or Sooners on four occasions (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016).
The Horned Frogs are enjoying an 11-match winning streak vs. Oklahoma and have won 10 of their last 11 duals with the Cowboys.
A weekend sweep would stake TCU to its third consecutive 2-0 start to conference play. The Horned Frogs have claimed three straight and five of the last six Big 12 regular season championships.
The Horned Frogs' duals with their border rivals are two of three confirmed home contests remaining on TCU's schedule. TCU's regular season home finale is set for Apr. 6 vs. No. 47 Baylor. The Horned Frogs conclude conference play with consecutive road matches at No. 31 Texas Tech on Apr. 8 and at No. 1 Texas on Apr. 15, before taking aim at the Big 12 Championships, held from Apr. 21-23 in Lawrence, Kansas.
Both matches are 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: Oklahoma
All-Time: Texas leads 20-9
Home Record: 11-3
Away Record: 5-3
Neutral Record: 4-3
First Meeting: 7-2 Oklahoma, Feb. 28, 1976, in Corpus Christi
Last Meeting: 4-1 TCU, Apr. 23, 2022, in Fort Worth
Current Winning Streak: TCU W11
Series History: Oklahoma State
All-Time: TCU leads 15-10
Home Record: 5-2
Away Record: 4-3
Neutral Record: 6-5
First Meeting: 5-4 Oklahoma State, Feb.27, 1976, in Corpus Christi
Last Meeting: 5-1 TCU, Apr. 14, 2022, in Stillwater
Current Winning Streak: TCU W2
Inside the Duals
- Few teams can match TCU's home court advantage. The Horned Frogs are 61-7 (.897) at home on the outdoor courts since 2015. Over the last two seasons, TCU has gone 21-4 at home. Through eight home duals in 2023. The Horned Frogs are outscoring opponents 45-6. Three opponents have been shut out 7-0 (UTA, UCLA, USC) and three teams (SMU, UTA, UCLA), failed to take a set.
- The Horned Frogs renewed their home doubles dominance vs. USC on Friday, rolling to a pair of 6-4 wins on courts one and three. TCU has gone 21-6 in doubles play in Fort Worth over the last two years.
- TCU is 140-82 all time vs. the six Big 12 institutions that sponsor men's tennis. Under David Roditi, the Horned Frogs have produced a 50-31 record vs. their conference counterparts across 11 years of Big 12 membership.
- The Horned Frogs are 35-19 all-time vs. the Oklahoma schools. TCU holds a 20-9 advantage over Oklahoma and a 15-10 edge vs. Oklahoma State in the all-time series between the programs.
- Roditi has led TCU to a combined 22 victories against eight losses vs. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in his 13-year head coaching tenure. The Horned Frogs are 11-2 vs. the Cowboys and hold an 11-6 record against the Sooners in the Roditi era.
- The Horned Frogs are outscoring opponents 81-14 through 17 matches. TCU has notched 10 victories over ranked teams by a combined 47-8 margin of victory. Only two three teams - Texas, Kentucky and North Carolina - have scored multiple points vs. TCU.
- The Horned Frogs have claimed the doubles point in 19 of their last 21 outings dating back to the 2022 NCAA Tournament. TCU enjoyed a nation-leading and program record streak of 18 straight doubles points from May 5, 2022-March 19, 2023. TCU is 39-6 in doubles play over the last two seasons.
- Building an early lead in doubles has been a near-certain pathway to victory. TCU has won 13-of-14 matches when taking the first completed doubles set.
- Luc Fomba has clinched nine of TCU's 15 doubles points between three partners (Jake Fearnley, Lui Maxted, Luke Swan). The tandems of Sander Jong and Jack Pinnington and Sebastian Gorzny and Pedro Vives own three doubles point clinchers apiece.
- In singles action, TCU has won 158-of-199 (.794) completed sets thus far in 2023. Two Horned Frogs sport undefeated singles records; Gorzny (11-0) and Maxted (6-0). Gorzny and Sander Jong lead TCU in singles victories with 11 apiece.
- Gorzny and Fomba have been especially dominant in 2022-2023, as they each command respective overall records of 30-4 and 30-6. Gorzny has played singles in 15 matches this year and dropped the first set just once.
- Fearnley and Jong have anchored the No. 1 singles post all season. They are a combined 12-4 on the top court. Fearnley is responsible for nine of the victories, seven of which are against players featured in the top-125 of the ITA singles rankings.
- Five Horned Frogs have staked TCU to a 12-0 singles record on court three; Fomba, Gorzny, Maxted, Pinnington and Tomas Jirousek. Fomba leads TCU with five victories out of the No. 3 post.
- Fomba obtained his 100th career spring singles victory vs. USC on Friday. He is 15 singles and doubles wins shy of 200 for his career.
- TCU has boasted a top-10 ITA team ranking for 162 consecutive weeks - the longest such streak of any Division I program.
- TCU became the first repeat ITA Indoor National Champion in more than a decade and seventh all-time following its 4-0 shutout of Texas. on Feb. 20 in the championship tilt. The Horned Frogs outscored their quartet of opponents 17-2 during their stay in Chicago.
ITA Team Rankings (March 28)
No. 3 – TCU
ITA Singles Rankings (March 21)
No. 16 – Luc Fomba
No. 21 – Jake Fearnley
No. 43 – Sander Jong
No. 71 – Sebastian Gorzny
ITA Doubles Rankings (March 21)
No. 6 – Sander Jong / Lui Maxted
No. 13 – Jake Fearnley / Luc Fomba
By the Numbers: Spring Singles Records
- Jake Fearnley (Season: 10-4 / Career: 48-23)
- Luc Fomba (Season: 10-1 / Career: 80-27)
- Sander Jong (Season: 11-1 / Career: 69-31)
- Sebastian Gorzny (Season: 11-0 / Career: 11-0)
- Lui Maxted (Season: 6-0 / Career: 14-6)
- Pedro Vives (Season: 6-1 / Career: 19-7)
- Jack Pinnington (Season: 6-2 / Career: 6-2)
- Tomas Jirousek (Season: 5-2 / Career: 28-14)
By the Numbers: Spring Doubles Records
- Sander Jong / Lui Maxted (Season: 4-3 / Career: 24-9)
- Jake Fearnley / Luc Fomba (Season: 9-2 / Career: 32-9)
- Sebastian Gorzny / Pedro Vives (Season: 12-2 / Career: 12-2)
- Sander Jong / Jack Pinnington (Season: 4-3 / Career: 4-3)
The Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center is arguably the toughest venue in the nation for opposing teams to compete at. TCU has amassed a 103-12 (.896) record on the purple courts since 2015. Of the 102 victories, 64 have come at the expense of ranked opponents. Under head coach David Roditi, the Horned Frogs have posted a remarkable 143-36 (.800) home record.
Heres to Five More
As of Tuesday, March 28, five years and one week have passed since TCU last dipped outside the top-25 of the ITA team rankings. The Horned Frogs have spent 266 straight weeks in the top-25 of the ITA team rankings, a streak matched by few other Division I programs.
The streak began on March 21, 2018, when TCU skyrocketed from No. 32 to No. 11 following three straight wins over No. 17 Duke (March 13), No. 12 Florida (March 14) and No. 9 Columbia (March 18)
The trio of top-20 wins ignited a 12-match winning streak to close the regular season. The Horned Frogs concluded the 2016-17 season with a 20-5 overall record and No. 9 final ITA team ranking.
Since then, TCU has spent just one week outside the top-20 of the ITA team rankings.
Consistency is Key
The Horned Frogs are the lone NCAA Division I men's tennis program to have maintained a top-three ITA team ranking in 2023. TCU has sat atop the rankings five times and boasted the No. 3 ranking in six polls (five indoor, one outdoor).
Chasing Down 200
Luc Fomba, TCU's active leader in career combined victories, is 15 wins shy of reaching 200. Since arriving in Fort Worth in 2018, he has tallied 152 combined singles and doubles wins over the course of five spring seasons and sprinkled in an additional 33 in fall invitationals. When Fomba tallies career win No. 200, he will become the first player in 26 years to achieve the milestone and ascend to ninth on TCU's career combined victories list.
Fomba's year-by-year combined records are as follows:
2018-2019: 32-20 (21-7 singles / 11-13 doubles)
2019-2020: 32-12 (19-8 singles / 13-4 doubles)
2020-2021: 42-22 (22-9 singles / 20-13 doubles)
2021-2022: 48-16 (23-8 singles / 25-8 doubles)
2022-2023: 30-6 (16-3 singles / 14-4 doubles)
Jong Nears 150th Spring Season Victory
Ahead of TCU's Big 12 opener, Sander Jong is 13 victories away from joining Fomba as one of two players in TCU's Big 12 era to win 150 combined singles and doubles matches during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Jong owns a combined spring record of 137-65 (68-30 singles, 69-35 doubles) and boasts 172 career victories (83 doubles, 79 singles) when factoring in results from team sponsored fall invitationals.
Say it Ain't so, Seb
Sebastian Gorzny has lived up to his billing as the No. 5 overall player in the ITA preseason freshman/newcomer rankings.
Since arriving in Fort Worth in August, Gorzny has played to a 30-4 overall record. He went 7-2 in singles and doubles action in his TCU debut at the ITA Texas Regional, advancing all the way to the singles semifinals of the tournament.
During the indoor season, Gorzny went 9-1 in doubles play alongside Pedro Vives.
Nine of his 11 spring singles victories have been in straight sets. He has been victorious on courts three through six at least once in 2023. Gorzny earned the match-clincher over No. 112 Cleeve Harper in TCU's ITA Indoor National Championship triumph over Texas.
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