FORT WORTH – College tennis returns to the purple courts for the first time in eight months as No. 4 TCU begins its 2024 campaign with an indoor dual on Wednesday vs. Abilene Christian.
First serve is at 5:30 p.m. and admission is free.
Wednesday’s match will be TCU’s first indoor contest since capturing the 2023 ITA Indoor National Championship. The Horned Frogs have won 25 consecutive indoor matches, dating back to the 2022 campaign.
TCU will play on the purple courts five times between January-February. The Horned Frogs host ITA Kickoff Weekend on Saturday-Sunday before rounding out their home indoor slate with a pair of top-10 matches vs. No. 9 Stanford and No. 6 Tennessee on Feb. 2 and Feb. 4, respectively.
Series History: ACU
All-Time: TCU leads 11-0
Home Record: 9-0
Away Record: 2-0
Neutral Record: 0-0
First Meeting: 5-2 TCU, Apr. 4, 1974 in Fort Worth
Last Meeting: 6-1 TCU, Jan. 14, 2022 in Fort Worth
Current Winning Streak: TCU W11
Inside the Match
• TCU is 41-9 all-time in season-openers and 11-2 under 13th year Head Coach David Roditi.
• The Horned Frogs are 13-0 in home-opening matches with Roditi at the helm.
• Since Roditi took the program reins in 2010, the Horned Frogs have posted a 41-37 record at the indoor Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center. TCU is 24-4 in home indoor matches since 2018.
• TCU blanked Texas 4-0 on Feb. 20, 2023, to repeat as ITA Indoor National Champions. The Horned Frogs outscored Baylor, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas by a combined 17-2 margin over their championship-winning run.
• TCU is one of six programs in the sport’s history to have won consecutive ITA Indoor National Championships.
• The Horned Frogs have won 25 consecutive indoor matches dating back to the 2022 campaign.
• Lui Maxted, Sebastian Gorzny and Pedro Vives all tallied singles victories against the Wildcats last year.
Frog Focus
• TCU was picked to finish second in the Big 12 Men’s Tennis Preseason Poll.
• The Horned Frogs attained the No. 4 overall preseason ITA teaming ranking – their second highest-ever under Roditi.
• Nearly four years have passed since TCU dropped out of the top-10 of the ITA team rankings. In fact, the Horned Frogs are enjoying the longest consecutive streak of weeks ranked in the top-10 of any Division 1 program. TCU has boasted a top-10 ITA team ranking for 199 weeks.
• TCU is the only program in the country that has finished in the top-10 of the final ITA team rankings for nine consecutive seasons.
• TCU returns seven letter winners from a 2023 squad that captured the Indoor National Championship, won the Big 12 tournament, earned the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and reached the NCAA semifinals.
• Fifth-year senior Jake Fearnley, a two-time All-American, enters the season after sweeping the M25 Esch/Alzette Championships alongside fellow Frog and All-American Alex Rybakov.
• Junior Pedro Vives and sophomore Sebastian Gorzny earned five wins against nationally ranked opponents as a doubles pairing in the fall of 2023. The duo won the ITA Texas Regional Doubles Championship.
• Junior Lui Maxted and Freshman Duncan Chan were ITA National Fall Championships doubles quarterfinalists.
• Sophomore Jack Pinnington had a successful fall, tallying a singles record of 12-3. He notched seven wins over nationally ranked foes. Pinnington was the ITA National Fall Championships singles finalist and an ITA Texas Regional singles quarterfinalist.
• Pinnington became the third player in program history to compete for a National Fall Singles Championship, joining David Pate and Paul Robinson.
Frogs in the ITA Rankings
Preseason ITA Team Rankings (Jan. 17)
No. 4 – TCU
ITA Singles Rankings (Nov. 15)
No. 3 – Jack Pinnington
No. 14 – Pedro Vives
No. 30 – Sebastian Gorzny
No. 64 – Lui Maxted
ITA Doubles Rankings (Nov. 15)
No. 7 – Sebastian Gorzny / Pedro Vives
No. 15 – Duncan Chan / Lui Maxted
No. 58 – Julian Alonso / Tomas Jirousek