TCU Earns Eighth Straight ITA Indoor National Championships Berth

Monday, January 26

Fort Worth, Texas

11 AM

TCU

Georgia

TCU Earns Eighth Straight ITA Indoor National Championships Berth

1/26/2026 3:00:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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Fifth-ranked Horned Frogs overpower Georgia 4-1

FORT WORTH – The circumstances surrounding No. 5 TCU and Georgia's match were unfamiliar, but the result was all too common.

The Horned Frogs overwhelmed the Bulldogs 4-1 and notched their eighth straight berth to the ITA Indoor National Championships on Monday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.

TCU (4-1) and Georgia (2-1) were forced to wait two days to play due to the winter storm plaguing the United States.

As soon as the roads cleared and the first balls were hit, it was all Frogs.

TCU dropped just two sets all dual in the ITA Kickoff Weekend championship match. Oliver Bonding and Cooper Woestendick clinched the doubles point on court one, then stretched TCU's lead to 3-1 with a pair of sweeps over ranked players. Cosme Rolland De Ravel earned the match clincher on court two with a 7-6 (5), 6-2 victory over the Bulldogs' highest-ranked player in No. 23 Will Jansen.

With the win, TCU earned the right to challenge for a third national title. The Frogs won back-to-back ITA Indoor National Championships in 2022 and 2023 have played in six of the last eight national finals, including four straight at Indoor Nationals.

The ITA Indoor National Championships run from Feb. 13-17 and are jointly hosted by Baylor and SMU. TCU was one of 14 programs to punch their ticket during Kickoff Weekend. TCU will play its first two matches in Waco and Dallas and will learn its starting assignment in the coming days. The complete draw is set to be released on Feb. 10.

Doubles Rundown
TCU was simply too much for Georgia at the top.

Rolland De Ravel and Duncan Chan, tabbed 23^rd in the ITA doubles rankings, rolled over Arda Azkara and Santiago Giamichelle 6-1 on court two.

Bonding and Woestendick anchored the top court for the fourth straight match and squared off with Jansen and Gabriele Vulpitta. They landed a decisive break leading 3-2 and served out a 6-3 decision to secure TCU's 1-0 lead.

The match also saw the return of 2025 NCAA doubles championships qualifier Albert Pedrico, who missed TCU's last two matches due to injury. He and Filip Apltauer helmed court three. They led Derrick Chen and Cooper Johnson 5-4 when play was paused.

Chan and Rolland De Ravel won their fourth dual match in as many outings and remain undefeated as a pair at 9-0.

Bonding and Woestendick clinched the doubles point in both of TCU's Kickoff Weekend triumphs.

TCU improved to 5-0 in doubles on the season and won its 18^th straight indoor doubles point on the purple courts. The Frogs have claimed the doubles point in 19 of their last 21 indoor duals dating back to 2024.

Doubles Results

Oliver Bonding / Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. Will Jansen / Gabriele Vulpitta (UGa): 6-3
#23 Duncan Chan / Cosme Rolland De Ravel (TCU) def. Arda Azkara / Santiago Giamichelle (UGA): 6-1
Filip Apltauer / Albert Pedrico (TCU) vs. Derrick Chen / Cooper Johnson (UGA): 5-4, unfinished

Order of finish: 2, 1

Singles Rundown
TCU claimed four of five opening sets and was unblemished outside of its lone defeat on court one.

Woestendick and Bonding set the tone in the early going. The former bageled the 33^rd-ranked Giamichelle on court three. Bonding sprinted to a 5-2 head start vs. No. 100 Noah Johnston in the fourth position.

The reigning Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Woestendick was the first Frog off the court. He did not drop a single service game and took the second set and match, 6-0, 6-4.

Georgia halved TCU's lead shortly thereafter as Azkara got the better of Chan, 6-4, 6-3, on the top court.

Set one tiebreak victories by Rolland De Ravel and No. 77 Roger Pascual on courts two and five blocked any pathway to contention for Georgia.

Neither Rolland De Ravel nor Jansen were able to break serve in set one. Rolland De Ravel notched the one return point he needed up 4-3 in the tiebreaker.

Pascual erased two break points vs. Chen, first down 1-3 and later trailing 3-5, to push his match to a tiebreaker. He took the set and tiebreaker with a 7-5 decision.

Rolland De Ravel, Woestendick and Bonding all earned the highest-ranked wins of their careers.

Woestendick won a team-leading five matches and finished 5-1 overall for the week.

Singles Results

Arda Azkara (UGA) def. #6 Duncan Chan (TCU): 6-4, 6-3
#45 Cosme Rolland De Ravel (TCU) def. #23 Will Jansen (UGA): 7-6 (5), 6-2
Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. #33 Santiago Giamichelle (UGA): 6-0, 6-4
Oliver Bonding (TCU) def. #100 Noah Johnston (UGA): 6-4, 7-6 (4)
#77 Roger Pascual (TCU) vs. Derrick Chen (UGA): 7-6 (5), 2-2, unfinished
Albert Pedrico (TCU) vs. #119 Gabriele Vulpitta (UGA): 0-2, unfinished

Order of finish: 3, 1, 4, 2

Up Next
TCU heads to the Hilltop for the Battle of the Iron Skillet, as the Horned Frogs face SMU at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Styslinger / Altec Tennis Complex. The Frogs have won 16 straight matches vs. the Mustangs and all 15 under the leadership of head coach David Roditi.