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Hi UT Tennis Fan, This last week before Thanksgiving will be a busy one for our team. Half of our squad will head up to Waco for the NCAA Individual Singles and Doubles Championships. Sebastian Gorzny (#1 seed), Timo Legout (seeded 9-16), and Jonah Braswell (also seeded 9-16) will play singles beginning on Tuesday, and Lucas Brown will pair with Timo in doubles beginning Wednesday. A full preview of the event, complete with links draws, schedules, and live scoring/video will be available on our website beginning Monday afternoon. Back in Austin, the Texas Tennis Center will once again play host to the $25k Drop Shot Series Men's Pro Tennis Open. Pierre-Yves Bailly (defending champion), Evan Burnett, Rahul Sachdev, and Calvin Wang will all play singles main draw beginning on Tuesday or Wednesday, while Rahul and Calvin will pair up for doubles. Pierre will also play doubles. Recent graduate Cleeve Harper will play both singles and doubles. For updated draws and schedules throughout the week, please click on this ITF tennis tournament page. Speaking of Cleeve, he has been on an absolute tear on the doubles Challenger Circuit. He reached another final last week (Drummondville, Canada), and is now up to #175 in the ATP doubles ranking. And at the $75k Challenger in Champaign, Micah Braswell qualified and reached the quarters before falling to the eventual champion. Micah is now approaching #450 in the ATP singles rankings after his first 6 months on tour. I have no doubt that he will take another big jump at the start of 2025. Speaking of big jumps, Eliot Spizzirri continued is climb up the rankings, reaching #220 in the world after reaching the semifinals in Champaign. He has all but wrapped up a spot in the Australian Open Qualifying draw at the start of 2025. I'll be in touch again next week with a recap of the NCAA Individual Tournament, and hopefully with some positive news on the recruiting front! Until then, Hook'em! Sincerely, Bruce Berque

https://www.ncaa.com/news/tennis-women/article/2024-11-11/2024-25-ncaa-division-i-womens-tennis-singles-and-doubles-championships-selections Women's singles, doubles NCAA selections.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/tennis-men/article/2024-11-11/2024-25-ncaa-division-i-mens-tennis-singles-and-doubles-championships-selections Men's singles, doubles selections. Seb with the #1 overall seed!

Hi UT Tennis Fan, I hope you are having a great week! Since my last e-mail, our team wrapped up another successful tournament in Waco, this time at ITA Texas Regionals. Timo Legout won the singles and doubles titles (doubles with Lucas Brown), and Jonah Braswell lost to Timo in the singles final. Lucas also reached the quarterfinals in singles. For the full story, please click on this press release. Next up for us is ITA Sectionals in two weeks. Sectionals will be the last qualifying event for the NCAA Individual tournament, which begins November 18 in Waco. We will be back in touch again soon with a preview. Until then, Hook'em! Sincerely, Bruce Berque

Hi UT Tennis Fan, It has been a few weeks since I was last in touch, so I am writing to catch you up on all things Texas Men's Tennis! We had 4 players in Tulsa this past week at the ITA All American Championships. Lucas Brown won 4 qualifying rounds before falling to the eventual main draw semifinalist. Lucas played great tennis, and continues to show progress. I fully expect him to be a force this year! Jonah Braswell won 2 main draw singles matches to reach the round of 16, and picked a top 10 ranked win in the consolation to complete a very good week. The highlight of the week for us was Sebastian Gorzny's run all the way to the final, picking up several great wins along the way. Unfortunately, Sebastian was not able to take the court for the final, as he had a hand injury that he could not continue to play through. We expect that Seb will be back at it soon though. In news of recent graduates on the pro tour, 2015 NCAA Doubles Champion Lloyd Glasspool is currently in the doubles semifinal of the Tokyo ATP $500k tour event; George Goldhoff reached the doubles final of the $100k Challenger in Portugal, Eliot Spizzirri reached the doubles semifinal at the $75,000 in Charleston, Christian Sigsgaard reached the semifinals of a $25k in Sweden, and Cleeve Harper reached yet another doubles final at a $25k in Spain, bringing his doubles ranking close to #250 after only 4 months on tour. Eliot has now cracked the op 300 in singles after the same 4 months, and I suspect Micah Braswell is not far behind. Eliot and Micah will be playing a Challenger in Tiburon, CA this coming week. Incoming January freshman Sebastian Eriksson has also been posting some impressive results at $15k and $25k events in Europe, including a doubles final and a singles final. Next up for us is a trip up I-35 to Waco, where 4 of our players will participate in the Big 12 - SEC Challenge next weekend. Will keep you posted. Until next time, Hook'em! Sincerely, Bruce Berque

Hi UT Tennis Fan, It has been a few weeks since I have been in touch, so I wanted to check in with a quick update. Play has already begun at the ITA All American Championships in Tulsa, OK. Lucas Brown was our only player in pre-qualifying, and he won all three of his matches in straight sets. He will begin play in qualifying today. In qualifying doubles, Pierre-Yves Bailly and Jonah Braswell will join Sebastian Gorzny and Lucas and will begin play this afternoon. Main draw play begins on Wednesday: Pierre, Jonah, and Sebastian will all be in the singles draw. Congrats to Siem Woldeab and Cleeve Harper who each picked up pro doubles titles within the last two weeks. Siem won a $15 ITF event in Tunisia, and Cleeve continued his torrid start in pro doubles by winning his first Challenger title in Spain, and following that up with a run to the final last week. Eliot Spizzirri and Micah Braswell continue to battle on the Challenger circuit, and both have made good progress. Eliot is already in the top 300 in the world, and Micah has fallen just short in some key matches, but I fully expect that he will make a big jump soon. On another note, as some of you may know we have recently begun to raise money for a fund we call "First Serve." First Serve is part of the Texas One Fund, but is specifically for Men's Tennis. Our goals for this fund are to encourage our team to have a greater presence in the community, help them (and their families) offset the gap between the costs they incur because of the gap between their scholarship and the actual costs of going to school at Texas (over $60k per year out of state), and to remain competitive in the new age of college athletics. Even our top players are not on full scholarships, and that is because we have only the NCAA maximum 4.5 scholarships to take care of our 10 players (10 is always the goal squad size). If you would like to learn more about First Serve please feel free to contact me directly either by e-mail or phone. Thanks so much for your interest in, and support of our program. Have a great week! Hook'em! Sincerely, Bruce Berque

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