Preview: Big 12 Men’s Tennis Tournament

Friday, April 17

Orlando, Fla.

1 PM

TCU

#11 Baylor / Utah

Preview: Big 12 Men’s Tennis Tournament

4/15/2026 10:37:00 AM | Men's Tennis

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No. 3 TCU begins play on Friday in the semifinals vs. Baylor or Utah

FORT WORTH – The postseason has arrived for third-ranked TCU, starting with a chase for its 10^th Big 12 championship.

The Horned Frogs begin play at the Big 12 Tournament on Friday at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida.

TCU (19-5, 7-1 Big 12) garnered the No. 2 seed and a first round bye in the six-team affair. The Frogs face either No. 3 seed Baylor (21-8, 6-2 Big 12) or No. 6 seed Utah (7-15, 2-6 Big 12) in the semifinals.

Though the Horned Frogs are not the No. 1 seed – a distinction that belongs to regular season champion Arizona – they will enter the Sunshine State as the prohibitive favorite to claim the crown. TCU is the league's top-rated team in the ITA rankings, a distinction it has held in all-but-one poll during the 2026 campaign, and has a conference-leading 10 top-30 wins to its credit.

The Frogs are preparing to face Baylor for the second time in the last five days come first serve on Friday. TCU walloped the Bears 4-1 on Sunday in Waco in its regular season finale. Assuming the bracket goes chalk, it will mark the fifth straight season in which TCU and Baylor have squared off three times.

TCU's most recent loss to Baylor came in the finals of the 2022 Big 12 Tournament in a 4-2 defeat in Fort Worth. Since that moment, TCU has dominated the rivalry, winning 11 straight matches at Baylor's expense. The streak includes a 4-1 victory on April 19, 2024 in Stillwater, Oklahoma in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals, TCU's first-and-only win vs. Baylor in conference tournament play. Baylor holds a 5-1 edge over the Horned Frogs in Big 12 Tournament affairs while TCU widened its lead in the all-time series to 47-26 with Sunday's result.

Should TCU advance to Saturday's championship, a rematch with ninth-ranked Arizona (20-3, 8-1 Big 12) likely awaits. The Wildcats have won 15 straight matches in an unbeaten run that includes a 4-0 home win over the Horned Frogs on March 22 in Tucson. The dual ultimately decided the league's regular season championship. TCU was without its No. 1 singles and doubles player in Cosme Rolland De Ravel and played away from home for the ninth time in a 10-match stretch that afternoon.

The loss has proven to be a turning point in the Horned Frogs' season. TCU is enjoying a six-match winning streak ahead of its arrival in Lake Nona. The Frogs have competed to an 11-1 record since March, with six top-25 wins to their credit in that span.

First serve for both the semifinals and final are set for 1 p.m. CT.

The entirety of the Big 12 Tournament will air live on ESPN+ while live stats are available via iOnCourt.

Frogs in the ITA Singles Rankings
#11 Duncan Chan
#38 Cosme Rolland De Ravel
#55 Cooper Woestendick
#105 Julian Alonso

Frogs in the ITA Doubles Rankings
#1 Duncan Chan / Cosme Rolland De Ravel

TCU in the Big 12 Tournament

TCU has won the Big 12 Tournament title three times (2016, 2017, 2023).
The Horned Frogs defeated No. 1 Texas 4-1 on April 23, 2023 in Lawrence, Kanas in their most recent Big 12 Tournament championship victory. TCU entered the tilt tabbed No. 3 in the ITA rankings. The dual capped a quadrilogy between the longstanding rivals in the 2023 campaign. TCU and Texas split the season series, beginning with a 4-0 shutout victory in favor of the Horned Frogs over the Longhorns in the ITA Indoor National Championships final.
Three-time TCU All-American Luc Fomba was honored as the tournament's Most Outstanding Player in 2023 after earning the match-clincher vs. Texas and in TCU's semifinal win over Oklahoma State. Fomba rallied from a set down to defeat the Longhorns' Pierre-Yves Bailly 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 on court and secure the championship.
The Horned Frogs have reached the Big 12 Tournament championship eight times, including a run of four straight appearances from 2021-25.
TCU earned a top-two seed in the Big 12 Tournament for the ninth time in the last 11 seasons with Sunday's win in Waco.
TCU's all-time record in the Big 12 Tournament stands at 13-9.
By virtue of its first round bye into the semifinals, the Frogs have now reached the last four in 13 of their 15 appearances in the Big 12 Tournament, winning eight-of-12 completed matches.
Excluding the 2020 campaign, TCU has claimed either the Big 12 regular season or tournament championship in eight of the last 10 seasons dating back to 2015.
TCU holds a 171-88 all-time record in Big 12 regular season and tournament play. In the David Roditi era, the Horned Frogs have competed to an 81-37 in Big 12 affairs.

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 won 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 (144) 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 70 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.
The Horned Frogs have been ranked as high as second and no lower than seventh in 2026.
Roditi has led TCU to 410 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 324 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 has won an NCAA-leading 30 straight home outdoor matches dating back to March of 2023.
TCU is 56-3 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 187-37 home record in his 16 seasons at the helm of his alma mater and a 146-13 (.919) mark since 2015.
The Horned Frogs are 20-4 in doubles play this season.
TCU's combined record on courts two and three in doubles is 26-8.
Eight of the Horned Frogs' 10 top-30 wins have been on the road or at a neutral venue.
The Frogs own eight victories over teams featured in the top-20 of the latest ITA rankings; No. 1 Texas, No. 5 LSU, No. 11 Baylor (2x), No. 12 Georgia (2x), No. 14 UCF and No. 19 Florida.
TCU sports a 6-1 record vs. the SEC this season.
One of the strengths on TCU's 2026 roster is the depth it possesses in its singles lineup. Of TCU's 67 dual singles victories thus far, 46 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.
TCU competed to a 20-4 combined singles record in Big 12 play. That figure improves to a perfect 20-0 when removing the Arizona loss and a first set retirement from Cosme Rolland De Ravel vs. Arizona State.
The Horned Frogs have yet to lose on courts two or six in Big 12 singles affairs.

Individual Notables

Duncan Chan and Cosme Rolland De Ravel became the third TCU doubles pair in the last four seasons to earn the ITA No. 1 ranking on March 31.
TCU has now rostered the nation's top-ranked doubles pair in four of the last five seasons. Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted, the 2024-25 NCAA doubles champions, received the recognition at season's end. Fellow All-Americans Luc Fomba and Jake Fearnley held the distinction for multiple weeks in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Chan and Rolland De Ravel are 18-0 overall, 14-0 in duals and 4-0 vs. ranked pairs.
Chan is one of only two players in the country featured in the top five of the ITA rankings in both singles and doubles
Chan has won 14 ranked singles matches.
Chan's season doubles record is 23-2. He leads TCU in combined wins (43).
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.
Bonding is 8-2 in singles play on the outdoor courts.
The freshman Bonding is 6-1 vs. Big 12 opponents in singles play.
Bonding leads TCU with 10 wins at No. 1 doubles.
Roger Pascual leads TCU in dual singles victories (11).
Cooper Woestendick and Albert Pedrico are 7-2 as doubles partners since debuting as a pair on March 7 at Texas.
Woestendick is enjoying a five-match singles winning streak and is 12-3 on the year.
Woestendick, the 2025 Big 12 Freshman of the Year, holds a 6-0 season record at No. 2 singles and is 9-0 at the position for his career.
Woestendick is unbeaten at 8-0 in Big 12 singles play across is two years in Fort Worth. He sports a 16-3 combined career conference record.
Pedrico has won five of his last six completed singles matches.
Pedrico is 11-1 in Big 12 singles play for his career.
Filip Apltauer is 13-4 at No. 3 doubles over the last two seasons for TCU.
Maximus Dussault has been a rock at the bottom of the lineup for TCU throughout the spring. The freshman holds respective records of 5-1 at No. 6 singles and 7-5 at No. 3 doubles. He has notched 25 victories on the year.