Preview: TCU Set for Final Regular Season Matches at Baylor, Oklahoma State

FORT WORTH – No. 4 TCU will play its final pair of regular season duals away from home, starting with a trek along Interstate 35 to Stillwater to face No. 41 Oklahoma State at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Following the clash with the Cowboys, the Horned Frogs head south for a rivalry bout vs. No. 11 Baylor at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Waco.

TCU (17-5, 5-1 Big 12) hits the road as the highest-ranked team in the Big 12 but in need of help to repeat as the league's regular season champion. To claim a share of the crown, TCU needs to win both matches and a loss from No. 8 Arizona to either No. 15 UCF or Oklahoma State.

The Horned Frogs are enjoying a four-match winning streak and have won nine of their last 10 since the calendar turned to March. Five of those victories have come at the expense of nationally ranked teams. Their lone loss in that stretch was to Arizona on March 22 in Tucson on an afternoon TCU was shorthanded and playing its ninth match away from home in a five-week span.

Stillwater is the site of the greatest moment in the history of TCU men's tennis. The Horned Frogs won the 2024 NCAA Championship at the Greenwood Tennis Center. Thursday's match marks TCU's first trip back.

TCU is riding a seven-match winning streak vs. Oklahoma State (14-9, 1-5 Big 12) and has claimed 15 of the last 16 meetings in the all-time series between the programs.

The Horned Frogs handled Baylor (19-7, 5-1 Big 12) with ease in a 4-1 home victory over the Bears on Feb. 6. TCU has won 10 straight matches vs. Baylor dating back to 2023.

Frogs in the ITA Singles Rankings

#6 Duncan Chan

#37 Cosme Rolland De Ravel

#61 Cooper Woestendick

#96 Julian Alonso

Frogs in the ITA Doubles Rankings

#1 Duncan Chan / Cosme Rolland De Ravel

Team Notables

The Horned Frogs were picked first in the Big 12 men's tennis preseason poll for the fourth time in the last six seasons.

TCU has won a league-leading nine Big 12 regular season or tournament championships over the last decade.

TCU has won or challenged for six of the last nine indoor or outdoor national championships dating back to 2022.

TCU ranks second nationally in total wins (142) since 2021.

TCU head coach David Roditi is one of only two active D1 head coaches who has won both an ITA Indoor National Championship and NCAA Championship and coached an NCAA individual champion.

Under Roditi's direction, TCU has notched 11 consecutive year-end ITA top-10 team rankings, a streak unmatched by any D1 program. The Horned Frogs have cracked the top-five of the final rankings in five straight seasons. TCU has additionally boasted a top-10 ITA team ranking in 69 consecutive polls dating back to March 10, 2020.

TCU has maintained a top-10 ITA team ranking for five continuous seasons dating back to January of 2021.

Roditi has led TCU to 408 dual wins over the course of his 21 years in Fort Worth. He was a part of 86 dual match victories as a player from 1993-96 and has won 322 across his 16-season run as the Horned Frogs head coach. He owns the second most head coaching wins in program history behind his own coach, and TCU Athletics Hall of Famer, Tut Bartzen.

TCU has won an NCAA-leading 30 straight home outdoor matches dating back to March of 2023.

TCU is 56-3 at home over the last four seasons.

Through Roditi's leadership, the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center has become one of the toughest venues for opposing teams to steal a victory. Roditi has led TCU to a 187-37 home record in his 16 seasons at the helm of his alma mater and a 146-13 (.919) mark since 2015.

The Horned Frogs are 19-3 in doubles play this season.

TCU's combined record on courts two and three in doubles is 25-6.

One of the strengths on TCU's 2026 roster is the depth it possesses in its singles lineup. Of TCU's 60 dual singles victories thus far, 40 have come on courts three through six.

TCU is rostering its youngest team in years. Four of the six members of the Horned Frogs' primary singles lineup are freshmen and sophomores. No returning player competed higher than court three in conference and postseason play in 2025. Six of the nine active players on TCU's roster are either underclassmen or a transfer.

In three of TCU's five defeats, all of which have come to top-15 teams, the Horned Frogs have lost at least three matches on courts 1-4 in singles.

Individual Notables

Duncan Chan and Cosme Rolland De Ravel became the third TCU doubles pair in the last four seasons to earn the ITA No. 1 ranking on March 31.

TCU has now rostered the nation's top-ranked doubles pair in four of the last five seasons. Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted, the 2024-25 NCAA doubles champions, received the recognition at season's end. Fellow All-Americans Luc Fomba and Jake Fearnley held the distinction for multiple weeks in 2021-22 and 2022-23.

Chan and Rolland De Ravel are 18-0 overall, 14-0 in duals and 4-0 vs. ranked pairs.

Chan is one of only two players in the country featured in the top five of the ITA rankings in both singles and doubles

Chan has won an NCAA-leading 14 ranked singles matches.

Chan's season doubles record is 21-2. He leads TCU in combined wins (41).

Rolland De Ravel was cited as Big 12 Player of the Week for March 9-15.

Rolland De Ravel has won three straight matches vs. top-50 players.

Oliver Bonding countered a four-match losing streak in singles with a run of four straight wins on the road vs. No. 2 Texas, No. 12 Georgia, No. 22 Florida and No. 25 Arizona State from March 7-20.

Bonding is 7-2 in singles play on the outdoor courts

Roger Pascual leads TCU in dual singles victories (10).

Cooper Woestendick and Albert Pedrico are 7-1 as doubles partners since debuting as a pair on March 7 at Texas.

Woestendick is enjoying a four-match singles winning streak and is 11-3 on the year.

Woestendick, the 2025 Big 12 Freshman of the Year, holds a 5-0 season record at No. 2 singles and is 8-0 at the position for his career.

Woestendick is unbeaten at 7-0 in Big 12 singles play across is two years in Fort Worth. He sports a 15-2 combined career conference record.

Pedrico has won four of his last five completed singles matches.

Filip Apltauer is 13-4 at No. 3 doubles over the last two seasons for TCU.

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