TCU
Michigan
Preview: At No. 13 Michigan
2/12/2024 12:34:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Horned Frogs hit the road for the first time in 2024
FORT WORTH - No. 5 TCU men's tennis heads north for a dual with No. 13 Michigan before continuing on to New York City for the ITA Indoor National Championships.
After a weeklong hiatus, TCU (5-0) will play its third top-15 opponent in the past 12 days. The Horned Frogs are riding respective 5-2 and 4-3 defeats of No. 15 Stanford and No. 6 Tennessee into their lone indoor road affair.
The matchup between the Horned Frogs and Wolverines will feature eight players featured in the ITA singles rankings, with TCU accounting for five.
TCU and Michigan are squaring off for the third time in the last 24 months. The Horned Frogs downed the Wolverines 4-1 in the quarterfinals of the 2023 NCAA Championships in their most recent meeting. Tuesday's match is a return trip for TCU. Michigan notched a 4-1 defeat at the expense of TCU on March 2, 2022, in Fort Worth.
Series History: Michigan
All-Time: TCU leads 4-3
Home Record: 2-1
Away Record: 0-2
Neutral Record: 2-1
First Meeting: 6-3, TCU on May 10, 1977 in Fort Worth, Texas
Last Meeting: 4-1 TCU on May 19, 2023
Current Winning Streak: TCU W1
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Frog Focus
• TCU has won 30 consecutive indoor matches dating back to the 2022 season.
• TCU has spent 40 straight weeks and exactly 1,124 days in the top-five of the ITA Rankings.
• The Horned Frogs are 20-4 overall in singles play and 10-2 in doubles play this season.
• No. 59 Lui Maxted leads the Horned Frogs with eight wins on the year (4-0 singles, 4-0 doubles)
• No. 62 Jake Fearnley has produced a 4-1 singles record out of the top flight. Fearnley took down No. 20 Johannus Monday of Tennessee in a three set thriller (5-7, 6-3, 7-6 [7-3]) to spark the Horned Frogs comeback win over the Volunteers on Feb. 4
• No. 39 Sebastian Gorzny is 3-0 in singles play this year and 2-1 in doubles alongside No. 20 Pedro Vives. The tandem is eighth in the ITA doubles rankings.
• Vives is 2-1 in singles play this year and occupies the No. 20 post in the ITA singles rankings.
• Tomas Jirousek clinched the match against Tennessee last time out for the Horned Frogs. After the Horned Frogs were down 3-1, Fearnley and Maxted evened the score with wins on courts one and five while Jirousek was up a set on six vs. Chris Li. The fifth-year took care of business from there, polishing off a 6-3, 6-2 match-clincher
Across the ITA Rankings
Singles
• No. 4 Jack Pinnington
• No. 20 Pedro Vives
• No. 39 Sebastian Gorzny
• No. 59 Lui Maxted
• No. 62 Jake Fearnley
Doubles
• No. 8 Sebastian Gorzny / Pedro Vives
• No. 20 Duncan Chan / Lui Maxted
Up Next
The Horned Frogs will compete in the ITA Indoor National Championships (Feb. 16-19) in New York City hosted by Columbia University.
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