Texas Men's Tennis 2023

[perfectchaos007 6642]

4-0 over Baylor. Big12 title will come down to our match against TCU next week

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TCU wins doubles. Texas will need to somehow win 4 of 6 singles matches now

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Texas fighting in singles right now taking 4 first sets. 

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Woldeab lost his match 6-0 in the third set, but Harper and Arimilli won their singles. Currently 2-2 overall with the remaining singles matches all in 3rd sets. LHN is broadcasting the match btw.

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Texas beats TCU 4-2! Outright Big 12 champs!!!

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Braswell was allowed to finish his match, so Texas won 5-2. Hell of an effort to win 5 singles matches against #3 TCU. We’ll most likely meet them again in the Big 12 tournament final, and it wouldn’t shock me if we face them for the 5th time this season in the NCAA tournament. 

Edited April 16, 2023 by perfectchaos007

[Wax Beer Cup 382]

Sure was looking iffy there for a while, but great finishes across the courts! 

[Js1 85338]

Texas takes doubles against OU with a tiebreaker at #2

[Js1 85338]

Texas up 3-2 and needs their #1 ranked player to clinch this match. Up 6-5 in his third set. 

Edited April 22, 2023 by Js1

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Texas wins 4-2. Indoor venue made this more challenging than it should have been. Texas v TCU for the tournament title tomorrow 

[Aleemay 304]

Spizziri absolutely smoked his returns (off the first serve too!) in that last game

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Just now, Aleemay said:

Spizziri absolutely smoked his returns (off the first serve too!) in that last game

That last forehand return winner he knew would either end the match or take it to a tiebreak. Fortunately it was the former.

[perfectchaos007 6642]

TCU swept us in doubles and lead 1-0.

Texas need 4 of 6 singles matches

[Js1 85338]

We had a decent lead in the tiebreak at #1 doubles and just blew it. 

[Js1 85338]

TCU 3-1. Texas has to win every match left. All in or going to a third set

[perfectchaos007 6642]

TCU wins 4-1. 
 

We ended up splitting matches this season with TCU (2-2) and Ohio State (1-1) so it will be interesting to see who the NCAA committee gives the #1 seed to. 

[Aleemay 304]

4 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

TCU wins 4-1. 
 

We ended up splitting matches this season with TCU (2-2) and Ohio State (1-1) so it will be interesting to see who the NCAA committee gives the #1 seed to. 

Committee always seems to go straight off the computer rankings (unless the adjacent team has the winning H2H). Texas should mathematically keep the top position in the computer rankings.

[Js1 85338]

We are still #1 

[Aleemay 304]

Just to let y'all know how tough Texas' schedule was: all but one team (UCF) are likely to qualify for the NCAA tournament

Texas or TCU likely to share SMU, UTSA, and A&M Corpus Christi in their draws. Real question is how stingy the NCAA committee will be- will they send A&M to TCU or Texas to save transportation cost despite A&M being in the top 20?

[perfectchaos007 6642]

14 hours ago, Aleemay said:

Just to let y'all know how tough Texas' schedule was: all but one team (UCF) are likely to qualify for the NCAA tournament

Texas or TCU likely to share SMU, UTSA, and A&M Corpus Christi in their draws. Real question is how stingy the NCAA committee will be- will they send A&M to TCU or Texas to save transportation cost despite A&M being in the top 20?

That’s pretty wild, and UCF gave us one of our toughest tests of the year. Hopefully the venue wasn’t the issue for our play against UCF because that’s where the national championship will be again at the USTA national campus for both men’s and womens. Hopefully tennis channel won the broadcasting rights like they did in 2021. Wasn’t a fan watching  via the TennisONE app in 2022

[Js1 85338]

Spizzirri wins Big 12 Player of the Year

[Aleemay 304]

On 4/26/2023 at 11:47 AM, perfectchaos007 said:

That’s pretty wild, and UCF gave us one of our toughest tests of the year. Hopefully the venue wasn’t the issue for our play against UCF because that’s where the national championship will be again at the USTA national campus for both men’s and womens. Hopefully tennis channel won the broadcasting rights like they did in 2021. Wasn’t a fan watching  via the TennisONE app in 2022

Sorry to burst that bubble...

 

[Js1 85338]

First ever #1 overall seed in program history. TAMUCC, Pepperdine, UTSA coming to town 

16 seed is UNC, hosting Drake, Utah and Old Dominion 

South Carolina is the 9, Tenn is the 8 in our quadrant 

[perfectchaos007 6642]

We have 3 Texas teams in our regional including ourselves, but #2 TCU got an All Texas regional w/ aggy, SMU, and UT-Arlington

Breakdown of teams in the field--

Big12 teams: 6 (That's the entire conference)
Texas teams: 9

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Tamu-CC's Line #1 singles player, Avery Zavala, is brother of Texas-Ex Josh Zavala, who played under Coach Center from 2006-2009. If you read Josh's old bio on TexasSports, it shows that Avery at the time was listed as being 6 years old. Quite the age gap between the brothers from Amarillo

https://texassports.com/sports/mens-tennis/roster/josh-zavala/2502

 

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Texas needed less than 2 hours to seep TAMU-CC 4-0. We'll play Pepperdine in round 2 tomorrow

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Doubles point secured 

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Sweep

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Texas will next face 16 seed UNC at 3pm on Saturday at the Texas Tennis Center in the round of 16

Edited May 8, 2023 by perfectchaos007

[Js1 85338]

Of the 16 seeded teams, 13 Columbia was the only one not to advance 

[Js1 85338]

8:25 first serve

9 South Carolina is waiting for us. Rest of the top 8 seeds besides Tennessee advanced to the Elite 8

[HenryJames 66055]

Hi!

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Won doubles 

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Sweep

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Worth the wait to get this on the outdoor courts. Swept North Carolina in the S16, and now we get South Carolina next 

Edited May 14, 2023 by perfectchaos007

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[HenryJames 66055]

Nice weather. Decent crowd.

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Okay, those bottom 4 in the bracket are pretty goddamn funny. 

[Aleemay 304]

Quick look at the South Carolina lineup shows that their weakest areas is the lower part

Texas also fortunate to have the early start time Thursday

[perfectchaos007 6642]

8 minutes ago, Aleemay said:

Quick look at the South Carolina lineup shows that their weakest areas is the lower part

Texas also fortunate to have the early start time Thursday

Top of their lineup are all British blokes. This Thursday lets go 1776 on their asses.

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Texas takes the doubles point!

[Js1 85338]

That was close. 7-5 and 6-4 and lost 2-6

[Js1 85338]

Weather

 

[bigup2dahorns 3343]

I’m at the match. Doubles was intense but awesome to pull through with the point. Radar not looking great so they cleared the stands. Big rain now. Gonna be a decent delay unfortunately. Texas has a good crowd making noise plus the girls team obviously there cheering on the squad.

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[Js1 85338]

Fucking Florida 

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Just won first sets in #3 and #4 singles and Spirizzi up 6-5

[bigup2dahorns 3343]

Lost #1 first set tie breaker but won #2 first set tie breaker. Weather is good. Tight matches.

[Js1 85338]

21 minutes ago, bigup2dahorns said:

Just won first sets in #3 and #4 singles and Spirizzi up 6-5

Won 5 of the 6 first sets. Looking good