TCU Beats Baylor Again, Fomba and Jong Each Win Twice on Senior Night

Thursday, April 6

Fort worth, TX

6 PM

TCU

Baylor

TCU Beats Baylor Again, Fomba and Jong Each Win Twice on Senior Night

4/6/2023 9:55:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

Horned Frogs earn third win over the Bears in 2023 with 4-0 victory

FORT WORTH – All Luc Fomba and Sander Jong have done since first arriving in Fort Worth from Europe five years ago is win, and for one final time, they stood before a home crowd as victors.

Playing their final true home dual as Horned Frogs, the fifth year seniors won both their singles and doubles matches to lead No. 2 TCU to a 4-0 conference triumph over No. 41 Baylor on Thursday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.

Fomba and Jong, who have now led TCU to 98 victories, were honored with Senior Night tributes after clinching the doubles point. Fomba and Fearnley, No. 4 in the ITA doubles team, downed the 20^th-ranked tandem of Finn Bass and Juampi Mazzuchi 6-3, before Jong and Lui Maxted bettered Christopher Frantzen and Justin Braverman 6-4.

Following a 6-2, 6-0 walloping of Frantzen by Pedro Vives in singles, Fomba and Jong solidified the win with sweeps on courts three and four, respectively. Fomba rolled over Mazzuchi 6-3, 6-1, setting up Jong for the match-clincher, which he attained via a 6-3, 6-0 rout of Ethan Muza.

"Great atmosphere," head coach David Roditi said. "I thought there was going to be no one here because of how cold it was. Great crowd. What a way to celebrate our seniors. Baylor – I hope they get healthy. They had two-or-three guys out, so not their full squad. Nevertheless, today was about celebrating our seniors. Luc and Sander, both won their doubles, and both won their singles, so happy for them and everything they've done for this program. We'll take the win and now get ready for Texas Tech in Lubbock. One of the toughest matches of the year. We'll be ready. Go Frogs."

TCU (19-1, 3-0 Big 12) notched its third victory in as many attempts vs. Baylor (14-12, 1-1 Big 12) this season with the result. The Horned Frogs defeated their central Texas rival twice in February by an 8-1 combined margin of victory on their way to the ITA Indoor National Championships.

Thursday's runaway, though, was the most convincing of the three victories. Outside of 6-3 doubles defeat on court two, TCU was never threatened. The Horned Frogs won all nine completed singles sets and 11-of-12 overall for the match. TCU claimed the opening frame in singles on all six courts and later led 4-0 in set two in the first, fourth and sixth flights.

The Horned Frogs also exorcised a dubious demon from its system, snapping a three-match home losing streak to the Bears.

TCU moved to 11-1 at home in 2023, with nine of the victories scored as shutouts. The Horned Frogs also improved their record vs. opponents presently featured in the ITA team rankings to 17-1

Doubles Results

#4 Jake Fearnley / Luc Fomba (TCU) def. Finn Bass / Juampi Mazzuchi (BU): 6-3
Zsombor Velcz / Luc Koenig (BU) def. Sebastian Gorzny / Pedro Vives (TCU): 6-3
#11 Sander Jong / Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Christopher Frantzen / Justin Braverman (BU): 6-4

Order of finish: 1, 2, 3

Doubles Notes

TCU is now 17-2 in doubles play and 17-0 when winning the doubles point this season.
Court by court, the Horned Frogs are 9-4 on court one, 11-5 on court two and 15-1 on court three.
The Horned Frogs have taken the doubles point from Baylor in all three meetings this spring.
Fearnley and Fomba improved to 10-2 in 2023 and 33-9 over the last two seasons as a pair.
Fearnley and Fomba are 2-0 opposite Bass and Mazzuchi. They clinched the doubles point vs. the Bears' top tandem 7-5 during TCU's 4-1 nonconference road victory on Feb. 8.
Fearnley and Fomba opened up a 3-1 lead on Bass and Mazzuchi. A backhand on a deuce point from Fomba maintained the two-game edge at 5-3 and all-but-solidified the result.
Gorzny and Vives never led in their defeat to Velcz and Koenig. The loss was just their third this spring. They continue to lead TCU in doubles victories behind a 13-3 overall record.
Jong and Maxted, the doubles runners-up at the ITA National Fall Championships in November, played together for the first time since TCU's 7-0 thrashing of No. 34 UCLA on March 11.
Jong and Maxted broke vs. Frantzen and Braverman at 3-3 to take the lead for good.

Singles Results

#12 Jake Fearnley (TCU) vs. Zsombor Velcz (BU): 6-4, 5-1
#73 Jack Pinnington (TCU) vs. Marko Miladinovic (BU): 6-2, 2-3
#24 Luc Fomba (TCU) def. Juampi Mazzuchi (BU): 6-3, 6-1
#42 Sander Jong (TCU) def. Ethan Muza (BU): 6-3, 6-0
#63 Sebastian Gorzny (TCU) vs. Luc Koenig (BU): 7-5, 2-3
Pedro Vives (TCU) def. Christopher Frantzen (BU): 6-2, 6-0

Order of finish: 6, 3, 4

Singles Notes

Baylor was without its top-two singles players in No. 52 Tadeas Paroulek and No. 53 Finn Bass due to injuries.
Fearnley was up 40-30 on Velcz in set two as play was stopped. He halted his match to allow Jong the opportunity to earn the match-clincher.
Fearnley is 5-0 combined vs. Baylor in singles and doubles in 2022-2023. He earned victories over Bass and Paroulek during the indoor season.
Pinnington has now seen three straight singles matches in which he led 1-0 go unfinished.
Fomba's win over Mazzuchi was his 103^rd career singles victory. He now has 188 career combined wins.
Jong continues to lead TCU in singles victories this spring. He is 14-1 in 2023/
Gorzny's spring singles record remains unblemished at 12-0.
Vives has won all seven of his singles starts on the outdoor courts. Each victory has been in the No. 6 flight.
Vives' spring singles record swelled to 9-1.

Up Next

TCU flies west to face Texas Tech at 1 p.m. on Saturday in Lubbock. A win over the Red Raiders guarantees TCU a first-round bye in the Big 12 Tournament, which runs from Apr. 20-23 in Lawrence, Kansas. The Big 12 regular season championship is likely to be decided between a rematch with No. 1 Texas on Apr. 15 in Austin.