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Horned Frogs Dismantle Texas in Top Five Showdown - TCU Athletics
FORT WORTH – No. 2 TCU picked up its signature win thus far in 2025, routing archrival Texas, 4-1, on Tuesday in front of a capacity crowd at the Bayard H. Friedman
Horned Frogs Dismantle Texas in Top Five Showdown
No. 2 TCU defeats third-ranked Longhorns 4-1
FORT WORTH – No. 2 TCU picked up its signature win thus far in 2025, routing archrival Texas, 4-1, on Tuesday in front of a capacity crowd at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
The Horned Frogs (12-2) picked up their fifth ranked win of the season and avenged a 4-1 defeat to the third-ranked Longhorns in February.
Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted paced TCU to the doubles point. The senior pair played their first match as the nation's No. 1 ranked doubles team and rolled to a 6-2 victory over No. 10 Timo Legut and Lucas Brown.
Jack Pinnington, Cooper Woestendick and Albert Pedrico picked straight set victories on courts one, four and five. The freshman Pedrico earned the match-clincher via a 7-6, 6-4 triumph over Sebastian Eriksson.
TCU and Texas (14-3) engaged in their 10th head-to-head in the last three seasons. The win leveled the recent series between the pair of national powers at 5-5.
The Horned Frogs have now won 27 consecutive home duals dating back to March of 2023.
TCU head coach David Roditi picked up his 290th career victory. The three-time All-American and three-time national champion coach is now 22 wins away from reaching 400 as a Horned Frog when including his playing career from 1992-96.
Doubles Rundown
TCU created a clear pathway to the doubles point in earnest on courts one and two.
Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted raced out to a 4-0 lead on their way to a 6-2 takedown of No. 10 Timo Legut and Lucas Brown. Vives and Maxted played their first match as the nation's No. 1 ranked doubles pair.
Pinnington and Woestendick, the ITA No. 65 doubles team, battled Braswell and Gorzny on court two. They snared two break points, riding the first to a 2-0 head start. Pinnington and Woestendick then won a crucial deuce point on receive with the set level at four games. Pinnington served out a 6-4 decision.
Duncan Chan and Albert Pedrico were tied 5-5 with Sebastian Eriksson and Pierre-Yves Baily at the time of the clinch.
Vives and Maxted improved to 3-0 vs. the Longhorns' top doubles team. They first downed Legut and Brown in the semifinals of the NCAA Individual Championships in November. Vives and Maxted again got the better of the Texas tandem, 7-5, in the teams' February meeting.
The seniors are now 10-1 in duals and 19-3 overall in 2024-25. Vives and Maxted boast an NCAA-leading 13 ranked wins vs. ranked pairs and hold an 8-1 record vs. top-10 teams.
Pinnington and Woestendick collected their seventh victory since forming a partnership in January.
TCU improved to 12-2 in doubles play this season. The Horned Frogs have claimed 15 of their last 17 possible doubles points dating back to the program's NCAA Championship run in May. TCU has not surrendered a doubles point in 10 straight outings on the purple courts
Doubles Results
- #1 Lui Maxted / Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #10 Timo Legut / Lucas Brown (Texas): 6-2
- #65 Jack Pinnington / Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. Jonah Braswell / Sebastian Gorzny (Texas): 6-4
- Duncan Chan / Albert Pedrico (TCU) vs. Sebastian Eriksson / Pierre-Yves Baily (Texas): 5-5, unfinished
Singles Rundown
The Frogs delivered their most dominant singles showing vs. Texas since their 4-0 shutout of the Longhorns to win the 2023 ITA Indoor National Championship.
TCU claimed five of six opening sets, including tiebreaker victories from Pedrico and fellow freshman Roger Pascual on the bottom courts. The Frogs surrendered just three sets total and held leads in the pair of unfinished matches.
Baily got the better of Maxted, 6-2, 6-1, on court three to level the scoreboard at 1-1.
Pinnington permanently restored TCU's lead shortly thereafter. He avenged an earlier loss to No. 7 Legut, downing the 24-year-old freshman 6-4, 6-2. Pinnington, presently tabbed 20th in the ITA rankings, broke at four games all in the opening frame. He won four straight games to close the show in set two.
Woestendick then picked up the highest profile victory of his young career and staked TCU to a 3-1 advantage. The freshman battled No. 39 Jonah Braswell on court four. He led the match from bell to bell in a 6-3, 6-4 triumph, earning breaks on Braswell's second service game in each set.
Pascual claimed a 7-4 tiebreaker over Brown on court six. Pedrico took his own tiebreaker in what proved to be the death kneel in Texas' hopes.
Vives, the No. 2 singles player in the country, was the first player to put a set on the board for the Frogs. He faced Gorzny in the second position. The Spaniard opened up a 5-0 lead on his former teammate before polishing off a 6-1 first set victory. Gorzny, ranked 13th, rallied from a 2-0 hole in set two to force a tiebreaker, which he claimed 7-2. Vives led 1-0 in the third set when play was halted.
Singles Results
- #20 Jack Pinnington (TCU) def. #7 Timo Legut (Texas): 6-4, 6-2
- #2 Pedro Vives (TCU) vs. #13 Sebastian Gorzny (Texas): 6-1, 6-7 (2), 1-0, unfinished
- #64 Pierre-Yves Baily (Texas) def. #15 Lui Maxted (TCU): 6-2, 6-1
- Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. #39 Jonah Braswell (Texas): 6-3, 6-4
- Albert Pedrico (TCU) vs. Sebastian Eriksson (Texas): 7-6, 6-4
- Roger Pascual (TCU) vs. Lucas Brown (Texas): 7-6 (4), 3-4 unfinished
Up Next
TCU opens Big 12 play with a visit to Orlando to face No. 19 UCF at 5 p.m. CT on Friday at the USTA National Campus.
