TCU Season Ends at Individual Championships
5/24/2018 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
FORT WORTH, Texas - The postseason run by the TCU men's tennis individual qualifiers came to an end on Thursday, May 24 with losses in the singles and doubles brackets at the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Singles and Doubles Championships at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Trevor Johnson, who was competing in his first NCAA Singles Championship, fell to No. 10 Mazen Osama of Alabama in the morning set of matches. The senior found himself down early in both sets and could not recover as Osama was able to defeat the No. 65 ranked player, 6-3, 6-0. With the loss, that concludes Johnson's career at TCU with the four-year letterwinner totaling 161 combined victories.
The No. 6 pair of Guillermo Nuñez and Alex Rybakov started out their doubles match strong with a 6-3 opening set win over No. 36 Duarte Vale and McClain Kessler of Florida. A late break by the Gators propelled them to a 6-3 win of their own in the second set forcing a decisive super tiebreaker for the match. After going back-and-forth for a 3-3 tie at the change over, Florida rattled off eight of the next nine points played to take the tiebreaker, 10-4, and the overall match victory. With the loss, that concludes Nuñez's career at TCU with the Santiago, Chile, native totaling 161 combined victories as well.
With the losses today, the 2017-18 TCU men's tennis season has come to an end. The Horned Frogs finished with an overall mark of 20-5 and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the team championship for the fourth straight season and 17th time in program history. Nuñez and Johnson became the third senior class in program history to reach the Sweet 16 in four consecutive seasons while also helping TCU nab five Big 12 regular season and tournament titles in their careers. The Frogs produced two All-Americans with Rybakov and Nuñez earning the automatic doubles honors with a top eight seed in the championship.
NCAA Individual Championship Results
Singles
R32: #10 Mazen Osama (Alabama) def. #65 Trevor Johnson (TCU): 6-3, 6-0
Doubles
RD32: #36 McClain Kessler/Duarte Vale (Florida) def. #6 Guillermo Nuñez/Alex Rybakov (TCU): 3-6, 6-3, 10-4
