Vives and Maxted Earn Second Set of All-American Accolades
11/21/2024 9:32:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Maxted reaches singles and doubles quarterfinals of NCAA Individual Championships
FORT WORTH – Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted attained All-American status again, this time in doubles.
The TCU tandem coasted to a 6-0, 6-3 round of 16 doubles victory over Charlotte's Matias Iturbe and Vasco Prata on Thursday on day three of the NCAA Individual Championships at the Hurd Tennis Center.
NCAA Championships singles and doubles quarterfinalists now automatically earn All-American accolades as a part of the invitational's pivot to the fall season.
Vives and Maxted are just the second and third Horned Frogs to reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships in both singles and doubles in the same season. They join Trace Fielding (2001) on an exclusive list.
The senior pair are also now two of eight players in program history to garner All-American honors in both types of tennis. Jake Fearnley and Luc Fomba are the most recent alumni to tick the box, having done so in consecutive seasons in 2022 and 2023.
Vives and Maxted, seeded 5-8, turn their attention to a Friday afternoon dual vs. No. 3 seed Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez of Mississippi State for a spot in the semifinals. The Bulldog duo received the preseason ITA No. 1 doubles ranking.
Maxted also reached the final eight in singles. He bettered No. 103 Maxi Homberg of Pepperdine, 6-2, 7-5, to begin the day.
The victory was significant in that it anointed Maxted as one of only five players in program history to ever reach the singles quarterfinals at the NCAA Championships. Only Cameron Norrie and most recently Alex Rybakov in 2019 have achieved the milestone in TCU's Big 12 era.
Maxted draws No. 2 Michael Zheng of Columbia in Friday's quarterfinals. It will be TCU's third tilt this fall vs. the top U.S. collegian. Zheng edged Maxted in a competitive 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) battle on Nov. 1 at the LSU Invitational. Vives booked his ticket to the ITA All-American Championships with a three-set victory over Zheng on Sept. 27.
The match between the sixth-seeded Maxted and Zheng is the lone quarterfinal affair between two top-eight seeds.
Maxted is one of only two players still alive in singles and doubles alongside Texas' Timo Legut.
Vives is the 10th three-time American in school history. He bowed out in the round of 16 to preseason ITA No. 1 Ozan Baris of Michigan State, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 2-6.
NCAA Individual Championships
Hurd Tennis Center | Waco, Texas
Nov. 19-24, 2024
Singles
RD16 – #39 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #103 Maxi Homberg (Pepperdine): 6-2, 7-5
RD16 – #2 Michael Zheng (Columbia) def. #37 Pedro Vives (TCU): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2
RD32 – #39 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #57 Luca Staeheli (NC State): 6-4, 6-1
RD32 – #37 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #121 Noah Zamora (UC Irvine): 6-4, 6-4
RD64 – #39 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Tiago Silva (Pacific): 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
RD64 – #37 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #86 Oscar Pinto Sansano (Georgia): 6-4, 6-4
RD64 – #55 Spencer Johnson (UCLA) def. Duncan Chan (TCU): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Doubles
RD16 – Pedro Vives / Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Matias Iturbe / Vasco Prata (Charlotte): 6-0, 6-3
RD32 – Pedro Vives / Lui Maxted (TCU) def. DK Suresh / Ionnis Xilas (Wake Forest): 4-6, 7-6 (3), [10-3]
The TCU tandem coasted to a 6-0, 6-3 round of 16 doubles victory over Charlotte's Matias Iturbe and Vasco Prata on Thursday on day three of the NCAA Individual Championships at the Hurd Tennis Center.
NCAA Championships singles and doubles quarterfinalists now automatically earn All-American accolades as a part of the invitational's pivot to the fall season.
Vives and Maxted are just the second and third Horned Frogs to reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships in both singles and doubles in the same season. They join Trace Fielding (2001) on an exclusive list.
The senior pair are also now two of eight players in program history to garner All-American honors in both types of tennis. Jake Fearnley and Luc Fomba are the most recent alumni to tick the box, having done so in consecutive seasons in 2022 and 2023.
Vives and Maxted, seeded 5-8, turn their attention to a Friday afternoon dual vs. No. 3 seed Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez of Mississippi State for a spot in the semifinals. The Bulldog duo received the preseason ITA No. 1 doubles ranking.
Maxted also reached the final eight in singles. He bettered No. 103 Maxi Homberg of Pepperdine, 6-2, 7-5, to begin the day.
The victory was significant in that it anointed Maxted as one of only five players in program history to ever reach the singles quarterfinals at the NCAA Championships. Only Cameron Norrie and most recently Alex Rybakov in 2019 have achieved the milestone in TCU's Big 12 era.
Maxted draws No. 2 Michael Zheng of Columbia in Friday's quarterfinals. It will be TCU's third tilt this fall vs. the top U.S. collegian. Zheng edged Maxted in a competitive 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) battle on Nov. 1 at the LSU Invitational. Vives booked his ticket to the ITA All-American Championships with a three-set victory over Zheng on Sept. 27.
The match between the sixth-seeded Maxted and Zheng is the lone quarterfinal affair between two top-eight seeds.
Maxted is one of only two players still alive in singles and doubles alongside Texas' Timo Legut.
Vives is the 10th three-time American in school history. He bowed out in the round of 16 to preseason ITA No. 1 Ozan Baris of Michigan State, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 2-6.
NCAA Individual Championships
Hurd Tennis Center | Waco, Texas
Nov. 19-24, 2024
Singles
RD16 – #39 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #103 Maxi Homberg (Pepperdine): 6-2, 7-5
RD16 – #2 Michael Zheng (Columbia) def. #37 Pedro Vives (TCU): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2
RD32 – #39 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. #57 Luca Staeheli (NC State): 6-4, 6-1
RD32 – #37 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #121 Noah Zamora (UC Irvine): 6-4, 6-4
RD64 – #39 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Tiago Silva (Pacific): 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
RD64 – #37 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #86 Oscar Pinto Sansano (Georgia): 6-4, 6-4
RD64 – #55 Spencer Johnson (UCLA) def. Duncan Chan (TCU): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Doubles
RD16 – Pedro Vives / Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Matias Iturbe / Vasco Prata (Charlotte): 6-0, 6-3
RD32 – Pedro Vives / Lui Maxted (TCU) def. DK Suresh / Ionnis Xilas (Wake Forest): 4-6, 7-6 (3), [10-3]
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