TCU Men's Tennis 2022-23

[Longfrog]

We won't be facing an overconfident team on Friday. Baylor has now lost 4 in a row, including tonight in Columbus. Ohio State is killing people at home, but even by their standards this was a remarkable beatdown. They took the doubles point in under 25 minutes, getting bagels on courts 2 & 3 (they were up on court 1 too). I'm having a hard time finding the singles scores right now but I think they took all 6 1st sets. The dual started at 6:00 and ended at 7:45.

 

[Purp]

We won't be facing an overconfident team on Friday. Baylor has now lost 4 in a row, including tonight in Columbus. Ohio State is killing people at home, but even by their standards this was a remarkable beatdown. They took the doubles point in under 25 minutes, getting bagels on courts 2 & 3 (they were up on court 1 too). I'm having a hard time finding the singles scores right now but I think they took all 6 1st sets. The dual started at 6:00 and ended at 7:45.

Dayum! Sounds like we need a Pepper-Hamilton investigation after that.

 

[Longfrog]

Dayum! Sounds like we need a Pepper-Hamilton investigation after that.

Here are the final scores from OSU's vantage point

Doubles (finished in 21 minutes per OSU)
#1: 4-2
#2: 6-0
#3: 6-0

Singles
#1: 6-2, 3-4
#2: 6-0, 6-3
#3: 6-4, 3-3
#4: 6-1, 6-4
#5: 6-4, 3-2
#6: 6-3, 6-0

So they won all 9 completed sets in singles, none of which required them to win more than 6 games. Oh yeah, and OSU was without their #1 singles player (Kingsley).

 

[Longfrog]

Great opportunity for Stalder to get a couple ATP wins and maybe really climb the doubles ranking.

Hijikata/Stalder about to go to a 3rd set.

Meanwhile, Norrie made the very interesting decision to forego defending his title in Delray Beach. He's in Buenos Aires where he's the 2 seed. I guess he wants to start the clay season earlier this year?

 

[Longfrog]

They play a super breaker for the 3rd, which Hijikata/Stalder win 10-6. If form holds they'll get #2 seeds Murray (#29) / Venus (#15) in the quarters.

 

[UltimateFrog]

Great win for Stalder, first ATP win. Gets a small little $3k paycheck and a new career high ranking of #124. He's getting real close to knocking on the door of getting into more ATP tournaments.

 

[UltimateFrog]

Best story of the week is of Matija Pecotic, a 33 year old guy who retired from tennis many years ago and is now a Capital Markets director for a real estate investment firm. He still plays on the side and has kept his ranking near #800 in the world. He got into the Delray draw (somehow) and beat Jack Sock in round 1, moving his ranking 212 spots. He's playing his matches inbetween working hours.

 

[UltimateFrog]

Meanwhile, Norrie made the very interesting decision to forego defending his title in Delray Beach. He's in Buenos Aires where he's the 2 seed. I guess he wants to start the clay season earlier this year?

Looking like a terrible decision. Just lost the 1st set to some dude around #200 in the world and looks absolutely horrid.

 

[Eight]

Looking like a terrible decision. Just lost the 1st set to some dude around #200 in the world and looks absolutely horrid.

clarkson could have told him brits aren't welcome in argentina

 

[UltimateFrog]

Norrie barely squeaks out the 3rd set tiebreaker and moves on to the quarters. I did some digging and this is one of the slowest court surfaces of all ATP tournaments, and it looks it. With Norrie already being a light hitter, it's a drag for him to win points in less than 10 shots.

 

[Longfrog]

Norrie barely squeaks out the 3rd set tiebreaker and moves on to the quarters. I did some digging and this is one of the slowest court surfaces of all ATP tournaments, and it looks it. With Norrie already being a light hitter, it's a drag for him to win points in less than 10 shots.

Yeah 3 hours for a 3 set match is brutal

 

[UltimateFrog]

Stalder and partner just beat one of the top doubles teams in the world in 3 sets! Venus/Murray are a top 20 doubles team with both guys having won Grand Slam doubles titles.

 

[Longfrog]

Lineups are submitted for this weekend. The guys at Cracked Racquets said ours was

Fearnley
Fomba
Pinnington
Jong
Gorzny
Jirousek

I'm shaky on the rules, but I think the point of submitting the lineup is you can only move a guy up or down one spot. So the #6 position is kind of meaningless since you can play anyone who's unlisted there as well. I would expect Maxted since it's indoors but we'll see.

Interesting that Pinnington is bumped down to 3 after the loss to Baylor. I kind of like it though. Fomba is a beast indoors and this lineup looks very tough at 2 through 4. Combine that with the fact we're probably the best doubles team in the country and we've got a great shot.

 

[Longfrog]

Lineup for Baylor iirc was

Paroulek
Miladinovic
Bass
Velcz
Mazzuchi
Muza

Bass has been out injured so he's iffy. I would say the strength of their lineup is at 4/5. Paroulek's also very capable at 1. But we're big favorites at 2/3/6. If we win doubles, which we definitely should, we'll be in great shape.

 

[Longfrog]

 

[Longfrog]

Pinnington playing doubles with Jong at #2.

 

[Longfrog]

TCU takes the doubles point

 

[Longfrog]

Lui will play #6, rest of the lineup as submitted. Baylor has a freshman at #5 and moved Mazzuchi down to #6. Gorzny should win at 5 but that's probably a good gamble for them.

 

[FrogUltimate]

Baylor also moved their #1 to #3. He’s up a break on Pinnington.

 

[FrogUltimate]

Baylor also moved their #1 to #3. He’s up a break on Pinnington.

Lol he just cheated and robbed Pinnington of a passing shot winner to get back the break. And then holds on deuce. [ deposit from a bull that looks like Art Briles ]