Preview: Horned Frogs Host No. 12 UCF, St. John’s

Friday, March 27

Fort Worth, Texas

5:30 PM

TCU

UCF

Preview: Horned Frogs Host No. 12 UCF, St. John’s

3/26/2026 2:43:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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Fifth-ranked TCU begins four-match homestand on Friday vs. Knights

FORT WORTH – The 2026 dual season is already two-and-a-half months old, yet this weekend, No. 5 TCU will take the outdoor purple courts for the first time.

The Horned Frogs begin a four-match homestand vs. UCF at 5:30 p.m. on Friday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center. Following the Big 12 bout, TCU hosts St. John's at 1 p.m. on Sunday in a nonconference affair.

TCU (13-5, 2-1 Big 12) has played nine of its last 10 matches away from home. The Horned Frogs most recently split a road swing through the Sonoran Desert, defeating No. 25 Arizona State before finding themselves on the wrong end of a shutout at then-No. 15 Arizona on Sunday. TCU owns seven top-25 victories while all five of its losses have come to teams presently featured in the top-15 of the ITA rankings.

Friday's dual will go a long way in determining whether TCU can win a seventh Big 12 regular season title. UCF (17-2, 3-0 Big 12) is tied with Arizona atop the conference standings.

The match marks the fifth time in the last two years the Horned Frogs and Knights have crossed paths. TCU faced UCF three times in 2025, most recently shutting out the Knights 4-0 on May 10 in an NCAA Super Regional bout in Fort Worth. The Frogs are 3-1 vs. UCF since the Knights joined the Big 12.

TCU and St. John's (13-4) have never met on the hardcourts.

Following the weekend twin bill, TCU continues Big 12 play with a pair of home matches vs. BYU and Utah on April 2 and April 4.

Frogs in the ITA Singles Rankings
#7 Duncan Chan
#25 Cosme Rolland De Ravel
#52 Cooper Woestendick
#83 Julian Alonso

Frogs in the ITA Doubles Rankings
#2 Duncan Chan / Cosme Rolland De Ravel
#43 Albert Pedrico / Cosme Rolland De Ravel
#87 Oliver Bonding / Cooper Woestendick

Team Notables

The Horned Frogs were picked first in the Big 12 men's tennis preseason poll for the fourth time in the last six seasons.
TCU has captured a league-leading nine Big 12 regular season or tournament championships over the last decade.
TCU has won or challenged for six of the last nine indoor or outdoor national championships dating back to 2022.
TCU ranks second nationally in total wins (138) since 2021.
TCU head coach David Roditi is one of only two active D1 head coaches who has won both an ITA Indoor National Championship and NCAA Championship and coached an NCAA individual champion.
Under Roditi's direction, TCU has notched 11 consecutive year-end ITA top-10 team rankings, a streak unmatched by any D1 program. The Horned Frogs have cracked the top-five of the final rankings in five straight seasons. TCU has additionally boasted a top-10 ITA team ranking in 65 consecutive polls dating back to March 10, 2020.
TCU has maintained a top-10 ITA team ranking for five continuous seasons dating back to January of 2021.
Roditi has led TCU to 403 dual wins over the course of his 21 years in Fort Worth. He was a part of 86 dual match victories as a player from 1993-96 and has won 317 across his 16-season run as the Horned Frogs head coach. He owns the second most head coaching wins in program history behind his own coach, and TCU Athletics Hall of Famer, Tut Bartzen.
TCU is 52-2 at home over the last four seasons.
Through Roditi's leadership, the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center has become one of the toughest venues for opposing teams to steal a victory. Roditi has led TCU to a 183-37 home record in his 16 seasons at the helm of his alma mater and a 143-13 (.916) mark since 2015.
The Horned Frogs are 16-2 in doubles play this season.
TCU's combined record on courts two and three in doubles is 20-4.
One of the strengths on TCU's 2026 roster is the depth it possesses in its singles lineup. Of TCU's 45 dual singles victories thus far, 31 have come on courts three through six.
TCU is rostering its youngest team in years. Four of the six members of the Horned Frogs' primary singles lineup are freshmen and sophomores. No returning player competed higher than court three in conference and postseason play in 2025. Six of the nine active players on TCU's roster are either underclassmen or a transfer.
In three of TCU's five defeats, all of which have come to top-15 teams, the Horned Frogs have lost at least three matches on courts 1-4 in singles.

Individual Notables

TCU is the only team in college tennis with two players featured in the top 25 of the ITA singles and doubles rankings in Duncan Chan and Cosme Rolland De Ravel. Chan is tabbed seventh in singles while Rolland De Ravel is slotted 25^th. Together, they are the nation's No. 2 ranked doubles pair.
Chan and Rolland De Ravel are 18-0 overall, 14-0 in duals and 4-0 vs. ranked pairs.
Chan has won an NCAA-leading 13 ranked singles matches.
Chan's season doubles record is 20-2. He leads TCU in combined wins (37).
Rolland De Ravel was cited as Big 12 Player of the Week for March 9-15.
Rolland De Ravel has won three straight matches vs. top-50 players.
Oliver Bonding countered a four-match losing streak in singles with a run of four straight wins on the road vs. No. 2 Texas, No. 12 Georgia, No. 22 Florida and No. 25 Arizona State from March 7-20.
Roger Pascual and Bonding lead TCU in dual singles victories with eight apiece.
Cooper Woestendick and Albert Pedrico are 5-0 as doubles partners since debuting as a pair on March 7 at Texas.