No. 2 TCU Too Much for SMU

Thursday, April 11

Dallas, Texas

5 PM

TCU

SMU

No. 2 TCU Too Much for SMU

4/11/2024 10:24:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

Horned Frogs down Mustangs 4-1 in Dallas; improve to 19-3 ahead of regular season finale

DALLAS - No. 3 TCU overpowered 40^th-ranked SMU to a tune of a 4-1 win on Thursday afternoon at the Styslinger/Altec Tennis Center.

After surrounding the doubles point, TCU took the opening frame in singles on all six courts and cruised to the win with consecutive sweeps on two, one, three and five, with Duncan Chan earning the match-clincher.

"We always play for the skillet, right?" said head coach David Roditi. "This rivalry goes back many, many years, and now it stays in Fort Worth. We knew it was going to be an absolute battle. Every team is facing a lot of adversity this time of the year, so just need to go compete. What Jack Pinnington was able to do against SMU's No. 1 singles player is very impressive, and Lui and Pedro played one of the cleanest matches all year. Our guys overcame losing doubles on the road, and we won four singles matches, so really proud of them. Go Frogs!"

TCU improved to 19-3 overall ahead of its regular season finale vs. No. 31 UCF (18-3, 4-2 Big 12) at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center. The winner of Saturday's dual clinches the No. 3 seed in next week's Big 12 Championship.

The Horned Frogs notched their 15^th consecutive win at the expense of the American Athletic Conference-leading Mustangs (14-5, 4-0 AAC). Roditi has yet to lose to TCU's crosstown foe. TCU is now 36-27 all-time vs. SMU.

Doubles Rundown

For just the sixth time this season, TCU dropped the doubles point. Tomas Jirousek and Kaj Quirijns fell to SMU's pairing of Maks Silagy and Julian Steinhausen, 6-2 on court three.

The Mustangs' Trevor Svajda and Louis Cloud got the better of TCU's Jack Pinnington and Pedro Vives, 6-4, at two to assume a 1-0 head start.

No. 77 Duncan Chan and Lui Maxted trailed SMU's 28^th-ranked tandem of Adam Neff and Huntely Allen, 4-5, at the time of the clinch.

Doubles Results

No. 77 Lui Maxted / Duncan Chan (TCU) vs. No. 28 Adam Neff / Huntley Allen (SMU): 4-5, unfinished
Trevor Svajda / Louis Cloud (SMU) def. Jack Pinnington/Pedro Vives (TCU): 6-4
Maks Silagy / Julian Steinhausen (SMU) def. Tomas Jirousek/Kaj Quirijns (TCU): 6-2

Order of finish: 3, 2

Singles Rundown

Facing an uphill battle, TCU responded in singles play, dropping just two sets total.

Vives, the ITA No. 58 singles player, put on a clinic on court two. Vives took down No. 97 Neff of in straight sets, taking both frames via 6-2 margins. The Spaniard has won four consecutive matches and picked up his third ranked win of the dual season.

The eighth-ranked Pinnington was the second Horned Frog to finish. One of two top-10 singles players for TCU, Pinnington secured three break points at the expense of Svajda, No. 33 nationally, on his way to a 6-4, 6-3 win on one. Pinnington moved to 14-4 in 2024 and earned his team-best 12th win over a nationally ranked opponent.

No. 57 Lui Maxted, The Horned Frogs' leader in wins in 2024, added to his total as he took down SMU's Maks Silagy to make the score 3-1 in TCU's favor. Maxted took a 6-4, 6-4 decision and secured his 15^th dual singles win of the season.

Duncan Chan clinched the match on court five for the third time this season. Chan took down SMU's Louis Cloud, 7-6 (3), 7-5 to move to 6-2 in 2024.

Singles Results