Preview: ITA Central Sectional Championships

FORT WOTH – TCU is set to make its final push for NCAA Championships qualification in its penultimate fall tournament.

Three Horned Frogs are set to play singles at the ITA Central Sectional Championships, which run from Thursday-Sunday at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, Texas.

ITA Sectionals are the last chance for players to punch their tickets to the NCAA Individual Championships. Six singles berths are up for grabs on the Brazos. All four semifinalists automatically qualify as do the winners of two quarterfinal consolation matches. The ITA Central section encompasses the Central, Midwest and Texas regions.

Maximus Dussault, Albert Pedrico and Cooper Woestendick are making the 90-minute drive south.

Woestendick earned the No. 1 seed in the 32-man draw. The preseason ITA No. 21 singles player, Woestendick has competed to a 9-3 overall record and 4-2 mark vs. ranked players this fall. He won three matches at the ITA All-American Championships to secure the top spot in the bracket.

Pedrico also automatically qualified on the strength of his performance at the ITA Texas Regional on Oct. 9-12. The fellow junior enjoyed a quarterfinal run, narrowly missing out on an NCAA Championships berth. He has been TCU's best performer in singles in the Frogs' last pair of events. Pedrico reached the last eight at the Battle in the Bay Classic prior to Regionals. He is 6-2 in the discipline since the calendar shifted to October.

Dussault is making his team-leading fifth appearance of the fall. The lefty has played singles in every ITA-sanctioned event TCU has traveled players to. Dussault began his sophomore season with a run to the finals at the Milwaukee Tennis classic.

Pedrico and Dussault were tabbed No. 93 and No. 111, respectively, in the first set of ITA rankings.

TCU has already qualified three players for the NCAA Individual Championships, held from Nov. 18-23 in Athens, Georgia.

Pedrico and Woestendick secured their trip east as a doubles pair after winning the ITA Texas Regional Championship.

Roger Pascual is TCU's lone singles qualifier. He won the ITA All-American Championships in September, becoming the Horned Frogs' first national champion in singles.

Tournament Schedule – Main Draw
Thursday, Nov. 5 – Doubles RD16, followed by singles RD32
Friday, Nov. 6 – Doubles quarterfinals, followed by singles RD16
Saturday, Nov. 7 – Singles quarterfinals, followed by singles and doubles semifinals
Sunday, Nov. 8 – Singles and doubles championships
Scoring Format
All singles and doubles matches are scored as best-of-three tiebreak sets, with a 10-point tiebreaker in effect for doubles affairs tied at one set apiece.

Frogs in the ITA Rankings
Singles
#3 Duncan Chan
#21 Cooper Woestendick
#80 Roger Pascual
#83 Jamie Mackenzie
#84 Oliver Bonding
#93 Albert Pedrico
#111 Maximus Dussault

Doubles
#6 Albert Pedrico / Cooper Woestendick
#35 Duncan Chan / Jamie Mackenzie
#70 Oliver Bonding / Maximus Dussault

Noting the Horned Frogs

TCU returns seven letter winners from its 2025-26 roster, six of whom have at least three years of eligibility remaining.
Seven Horned Frogs combined to garner 11 preseason ITA rankings, the third-most of any Division I program. TCU was also one of only three teams to produce a preseason top-10 singles player, doubles pair and newcomer.
TCU has competed to a 150-30 record over the last six seasons. The Horned Frogs' 150 wins since 2021 rank second nationally.
The Horned Frogs have challenged for six of the last 10 indoor or outdoor national championships dating back to 2022. TCU has advanced to the semifinals or farther eight times in that span The Frogs won back-to-back ITA Indoor National titles in 2022 and 2023 and claimed the NCAA National Championship in 2024.
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 also coached an NCAA individual champion.
Roditi has led TCU to 330 dual victories across his 16-season run at the helm of his alma mater. He trails only his own head coach, Tut Bartzen, who won 507 matches from 1974-1998.
Under Roditi's direction, TCU has notched 12 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 six straight seasons, most recently garnering the No. 4 ranking at the conclusion of the 2026 dual season. TCU has additionally boasted a top-10 ITA team ranking in 73 consecutive polls dating back to March 10, 2020.
Including Pascual and Woestendick, Horned Frogs have sent 14 players to the NCAA Individual Championships over the last four seasons. Pedro Vives and Maxted won the 2024 NCAA Doubles Championship to give the program its second NCAA individual title. Among returning players, Duncan Chan and Albert Pedrico both qualified in 2025.
Chan is set to represent TCU in the premier international team championship later this month. Chan was named to Team Canada's five-player roster for the Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna, Italy. The tournament takes place across five days from Nov. 24-29. Team Canada faces the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.
Jamie Mackenzie, the preseason ITA No. 4 newcomer, reached the semifinals of the US Open Junior Singles Championships in September.
TCU and the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center hosted an ATP Challenger 75 event for the first time from Oct. 18-25. Nine current or former Horned Frogs competed at the Fort Worth Challenger. Pedrico and Woestendick won the doubles championship to earn their first-ever Challenger-level title.

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Players Mentioned

Oliver Bonding

Duncan Chan

Maximus Dussault

Jamie Mackenzie

Roger Pascual

Albert Pedrico

Cooper Woestendick

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