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DALLAS – TCU men's tennis will challenge for the ITA Indoor National Championship for the fourth straight year.
GoFrogs: TCU to Play for Fourth Consecutive ITA Indoor National Championship
DALLAS – TCU men's tennis will challenge for the ITA Indoor National Championship for the fourth straight year.
The No. 1 ranked Horned Frogs blanked Stanford, 4-0, in a semifinal dual on Monday at the Styslinger / Altec Tennis Complex on the campus of SMU.
They face No. 2 Wake Forest at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Dallas for all the marbles.
TCU is now one of only three programs in the 52-year history of the event to reach the Indoor Nationals final in four straight seasons alongside USC (2012-16) and Virginia (2008-12). The Horned Frogs will become just the fourth team to claim three Indoor National Championships in a four-year window should they defeat the Demon Deacons.
TCU is making its fifth appearance in a national final since 2022. The Frogs won back-to-back ITA Indoor National Championships in 2022 and 2023 and captured their first NCAA title in May.
Monday's tilt vs. the 11th-ranked Cardinal (7-2) was a rematch from exactly one month earlier and at the same location. TCU (9-1) pitched a 7-0 sweep of Stanford on Jan. 17 on the Mustangs' indoor courts.
The doubles point was decided by the slimmest of margins. All three courts found themselves tied at five games all with neither team able to secure a break. Stanford took a 7-5 decision on court two. Defending NCAA Doubles Champions Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted leveled play at one court apiece, defeating Max Basing and Kyle Kang via an identical score. The match's first point ultimately came down to a tiebreaker on court three, where Duncan Chan and Albert Pedrico broke serve vs. Nico Godsick and Henry von der Schulenburg in point No. 16 of the tiebreaker en route to a 7-6 (7) clincher.
TCU then claimed five courts in the opening set of singles play. Pedrico and Cooper Woestendick rolled to dominant wins in the sixth and fifth positions, respectively, to put TCU within a point of a return to the grand finale of indoor tennis. Vives, the ITA No. 6 singles player, earned his second match-clincher of the tournament, downing No. 114 Basing, 6-4, 6-3, on court two.
The Horned Frogs boosted their all-time Indoor Nationals record to 21-9. TCU has won 14 of its last 15 matches at the event.
The victory also boosted the Frogs' overall indoor record over the last four seasons to 42-3.
Doubles Rundown
Vives and Maxted's break overlapped with the start of the tiebreaker on court three and with the senior pair leading Basing and Kang 6-5.
The nation's No. 2 ranked pair, Vives and Maxted won their 16th consecutive match dating back to November.
Vives and Maxted have yet to lose in doubles play or singles action through three matches at Indoor Nationals. Combined with Vives' match clincher over Basing, they have accounted for eight of TCU's 12 points.
Chan and Pedrico clinched the doubles point for the fourth time in nine matches as partners. The underclassmen tandem is 5-1 thus far in 2025.
TCU improved to 9-1 in doubles play this season. The Frogs have claimed 14 of their last 15 possible doubles points dating back to their NCAA Championship. TCU is 29-4 in doubles play on the indoor courts since 2023.
Doubles Results
- #2 Lui Maxted / Pedro Vives (TCU) def. Max Basing / Kyle Kang (Stanford): 7-5
- Samir Banerjee / Alexander Razeghi (Stanford) def. Jack Pinnington / Cooper Woestendick (TCU): 7-5
- Duncan Chan / Albert Pedrico (TCU) def. Nico Godsick / Henry von der Schulenburg (Stanford): 7-6 (7)
Singles Rundown
Courts one, two, three and five were level at 4-4 to begin singles play, illustrating just how tightly contested the match was until TCU pulled away in set two.
No. 18 Jack Pinnington created the first bit of separation, breaking the 31st-ranked Banerjee late to take a 6-4 opening frame on court one.
Maxted, who faced Kang on court three, followed as did Vives and Woestendick.
Pedrico's court was the lone match that was never in question. He bageled Razeghi on set one and raced out to a 4-1 advantage in the second set on his way to a wire-to-wire 6-0, 6-4 win.
Woestendick stretched TCU's lead to 3-0 soon thereafter. He outlasted Hudson Rivera, 6-4, in the first set before blowing his match open, racing past Rivera 6-1 in set two.
Vives broke Basing up 4-3 in set two in what proved to be the nail in the Cardinal coffin. Pinnington built a 4-2 advantage in the second frame of his match, nullifying any pathway to a comeback.
Vives improved to 10-2 vs. ranked players in 2024-25 and 6-0 in duals. He earned his team-leading third match-clincher of the dual season.
Pedrico is now 5-0 in singles play.
Woestendick notched his first-ever singles win in a national championship event.
Singles Results
- #18 Jack Pinnington (TCU) vs. #31 Samir Banerjee (Stanford): 6-4, 4-5, unfinished
- #6 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #114 Max Basing (Stanford): 6-4, 6-3
- #12 Lui Maxted (TCU) vs. Kyle Kang (Stanford): 6-4, 1-6, 1-1, unfinished
- #92 Duncan Chan (TCU) vs. Henry von der Schulenburg (Stanford): 4-6, 6-3, unfinished
- Cooper Woestendick (TCU) def. Hudson Rivera (Stanford): 6-4, 6-1
- Albert Pedrico (TCU) def. Alexander Razeghi (Stanford): 6-0, 6-4
