Preview: vs. No. 21 Pepperdine

FORT WORTH – TCU men's tennis is set to take the action outside, as the No. 2 ranked Horned Frogs host No. 21 Pepperdine at 1 p.m. on Sunday on the Bartzen Varsity Courts.

TCU (9-2) is just five days removed from challenging for the ITA Indoor National Championship for the fourth straight season. The Horned Frogs pocketed victories over No. 6 Stanford, No. 7 San Diego and No. 16 Baylor before falling to top-ranked Wake Forest, 4-3, in the final.

Three Frogs earned ITA Indoor National Championships all-tournament team accolades.

Pedro Vives, who ascended to a career-high ITA singles ranking of No. 2 on Thursday, got the nod at in the second position in singles. Lui Maxted and Cooper Woestendick received the recognition, respectively, at No. 3 singles and No. 5 singles. Together, the trio produced an 8-0 combined singles record. Vives earned the match-clincher in the Frogs' victories over the Bears and Cardinals and won all four of his matches.

Maxted and Vives headline TCU's lineup ahead of its outdoor debut. The senior duo are ranked second in the nation in doubles. They are 8-1 in the dual season and 16-3 overall in 2024-25. Maxted and Vives picked up a win over the nation's No. 1 ranked doubles pair of Oliver Tarvet and Stian Klassen (San Diego) in the Indoor Nationals quarterfinals. Vives leads the team in singles play with a 7-0 dual record and six ranked wins. Maxted, who is ranked No. 11 in the ITA singles rankings, is second on the team in wins with six wins. He has played predominantly on court three and has been a steady player with a 3-1 record against ranked players and a 6-1 record overall.

Pepperdine enters the contest with a record of 6-4. The Waves are 2-2 against ranked competition and have two players featured in the top 100 of the ITA singles rankings in No. 53 Maxi Homberg and No. 76 Edward Winter.

TCU pitched a 4-0 shutout of the Waves on March 17 in Malibu in the teams' most recent meeting.

TCU Projected Singles Lineup

1. #22 Jack Pinnington

2. #2 Pedro Vives

3. #11 Lui Maxted

4. Duncan Chan

5. Cooper Woestendick

6. Albert Pedrico

TCU Projected Doubles Lineup

1. #2 Lui Maxted / Pedro Vives

2. #69 Jack Pinnington / Cooper Woestendick

3. Duncan Chan / Albert Pedrico