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Baylor Eases Past Texas 4-1 + What’s Coming Up

by | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog | 3 comments

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What was expected to be a pretty close match turned into a fairly routine victory for #2 Baylor as they pushed past #10 Texas 4-1.


Baylor started things off by taking the doubles point with wins at #2 and #3 despite having Tony Lupieri and Max Tchoutakian playing together for the first time at #3. Lupieri’s normal doubles partner Mate Zsiga did not play doubles but did play singles. Baylor’s Diego Galeano was also serving for the match at #1 doubles when the point was clinched.


When the singles lineups were first put it out they showed Nick Naumann at #5 and Clement Homs at #6 but once play actually got underway they were switched. According to BU’s blogger, Kim Gorum, since the official lineup submitted to the Big 12 showed Naumann at 5 and Homs at 6 the only way they could be switched is if Baylor agreed to it and apparently Matt Knoll didn’t have a problem with the switch so it was allowed.

Once play got started Texas’s Lloyd Glasspool would jump out to an early double break lead at #2 singles and would take a quick 6-1 set over Tony Lupieri.

Baylor’s Julian Lenz, Mate Zsiga, and Felipe Rios would go up early breaks at 1, 5, and 6 but Texas’s Soren Hess-Olesen, Clement Homs, and Nick Naumann would get them back a few games later. Lenz and Zsiga would break again and both ended up serving out the opening set to take it 6-4. Baylor’s #4 Diego Galeano would break George Goldhoff to go up 4-3, then after an exchange of holds Galeano would also serve out the set and take it 6-4.  The match at #3 between Max Tchoutakian and Adrien Berkowicz stayed close until Berkowicz was broke serving at 5-6 which gave Tchoutakian the opening set 7-5.  Back at #6, Naumann would come back from 4-2 down to lead 5-4 only to see Rios hold and break for 6-5.  Naumann would break back to send the opening set to a tiebreak but Rios would sprint out to a 5-2 lead in the TB. A Naumann double fault made it 6-3 and then Rios got a ball to hit the tape and fall on the other side to give him the set 7-6(3).

So with Baylor taking 5 opening sets plus having the doubles point in the bag you figured this just wasn’t going to be Texas’s night and it wasn’t.

Lloyd Glasspool would finish off Tony Lupieri at #2 to even the match it at 1 but that would be the end of the good news for the Longhorns.

Julian Lenz broke Soren Hess-Olesen in the 3rd game of the 2nd set and wouldn’t look back as he won going away 6-4, 6-2.

Less than 5 minutes later both Diego Galeano and Felipe Rios would win their respective matches within about 30 seconds of each other.  Galeano, like Lenz, broke in the 3rd game of the 2nd set and rolled to a 6-4, 6-2 win over George Goldhoff at #4. Rios went down an early break in the 2nd but immediately broke back and would then break again to go up 5-3 and then he served it out to take it 7-6, 6-3 over Nick Naumann.

The 2 other matches were abandoned with Max Tchoutakian up a set and on-serve in the 2nd against Adrien Berkowicz at #3 and Mate Zsiga was up a set but down a break against Clement Homs at #5.

All in all a very impressive road win for Baylor who has now won 9 straight in Austin. Below are some video clips from Baylor’s twiter:

Baylor recap

TOP QUOTE #1
“Our guys have really matured. We know how to have a relaxed intensity. I think a couple of our guys were a little nervous when the match got started, but as a group the dynamic is really coming together.” – head coach Matt Knoll on the match
TOP QUOTE #2

“I remember the first time we came down here and I am still sore from that. This is a big rivalry of ours in the league. They are close by and we see them a lot, so it is special to play this well down here.” – Knoll on the win

Texas recap

Head Coach Michael Center
Opening statement: I didn’t like the way we started in the doubles. We have just got to play with a little more energy, a little more consistency. We are still making some early mistakes and some points that we can’t afford to make. It’s quick. Six games, no ad — the points happen quickly and the games end quickly. We kind of dug ourselves a hole and I thought we would have a shot in all six singles matches and it looked like we were in all six first sets and only got one of them. We really got behind at that point and it was just too much for us to overcome tonight.
On the TCU match: There’s no time for us to hang our heads right now. We’ve got another top-10 match on Saturday against a team that is going to be desperate to beat us. We’ve got to respond. This match is over. Sleep on it tonight and tomorrow, we’ve got to go back to work and get ready to play TCU on Saturday. It’s going to be a big, big test for us.
On preparing for postseason play: We have just got to keep trying to get better. We have been saying it all year long. We have played well at times, but I still don’t feel like we’ve played our best. We have a lot to play for. We want to try and find our stride and play our best tennis at the end. We will wake up tomorrow and go back to work.

#2 Baylor 4, #10 Texas 1
04/15/15 at Austin, TX (Caswell Tennis Center)
Singles competition
1. #2 Julian Lenz (BU 14.86) def. #5 Soren Hess-Olesen (UT 14.96) 6-4, 6-2
2. #48 Lloyd Glasspool (UT 13.92) def. #30 Tony Lupieri (BU 14.14) 6-1, 6-4
3. #67 Max Tchoutakian (BU 14.30) vs. #49 Adrien Berkowicz (UT 13.99) 7-5, 4-3, unf
4. Diego Galeano (BU 13.64) def. George Goldhoff (UT 13.70) 6-4, 6-2
5. #112 Mate Zsiga (BU 13.91) vs.  Clement Homs (UT 13.24) 6-4, 3-5, unf
6. Felipe Rios (BU 13.91) def. Nick Naumann (UT 13.77) 7-6 (7-3), 6-3
Doubles competition
1. #25 Diego Galeano/Julian Lenz (BU) vs. #23 Glasspool/Hess-Olesen (UT) *5-4 unf
2. Felipe Rios/Vince Schneider (BU) def. Adrien Berkowicz/George Goldhoff (UT) 6-3
3. Tony Lupieri/Max Tchoutakian (BU) def. Naumann/Michael Riechmann (UT) 6-4
Match Notes
Baylor 19-4, 3-1; National ranking #2; Regional ranking #1
Texas 18-4, 2-2; National ranking #10; Regional ranking #4
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (2,1,4,6)
T-2:10




What’s Coming Up:

Thursday:

  • #9 USC at #19 UCLA – both teams are licking their wounds after this past weekend.  Going to be interesting to see if Hanfmann and Quiroz can lead SC to a win or whether they’ll continue their recent slide and let UCLA take the #2 seed in the Pac 12 Tourney which would make USC the #3 seed.
  • #25 LSU vs. #45 South Carolina (SEC Tournament) – LSU is all but guaranteed to be a #2 seed in an NCAA regional but South Carolina really needs a win to secure it’s spot because right now the Gamecocks are sitting right on the bubble with the NCAA at-large cutoff usually between 42 and 44.
  • #17 Florida vs. #74 Kentucky (SEC Tournament) – These two played just 6 days ago in Lexington and after Kentucky won the doubles point Florida rallied to win 4 in singles matches.  Several of the courts were close so it’ll be interesting to see if Kentucky can reverse its fortunes this time around. 

Friday:

  • #12 Wake Forest at #37 Notre Dame – Wake’s the better team but Notre Dame could give them a good match in a few spots – #1 singles should be great – Noah Rubin vs. Quentin Monaghan.
  • #3 Illinois at #33 Minnesota – Illinois has dominated the Big 10 this year and has yet to be threatened by anyone while Minnesota has quietly put together a nice year.  
  • #44 SMU vs. #49 Memphis (AAC Tournament) – Both of these teams are sitting on the bubble so a win would be helpful to the winner while the loser can probably clean out its locker for the season.
  • #13 Ole Miss vs. #22 Vanderbilt (SEC Quarterfinal) – Vanderbilt has to beat Auburn to make this match happen but that’s all but a given.  Ole Miss won the regular season meeting 4-0 though since it was played indoors on 3 courts several of the matches never got going and the ones that were played were all pretty tight.
Saturday:
  • #2 Baylor at #16 Texas Tech – Last Sunday Texas Tech stunned #1 Oklahoma, do they have another upset in them or does Baylor roll to another victory and claim a share of the Big 12 regular season title.
  • #10 Texas at #7 TCU – TCU thumped Texas A&M last Saturday, it’ll be interesting to see if they play as good or whether Texas regroups after the loss to Baylor.
  • #28 California at #24 Stanford – The Cardinal won the first meeting in Berkeley 4-3 (2/21) when Maciek Romanowicz came back from 5-2 down in the 3rd in the deciding match to win it 5-7, 7-5, 7-5.  Stanford will win the Pac 12 regular season title outright with a win here (already guaranteed a share) and they’ve already locked up the #1 seed in the Pac 12 Tournament.  Raise your hand if you had Stanford doing that after they got smacked around by South Carolina back in late January.  
  • SEC Tournament Semifinals – if no upsets it’d be #6 Texas A&M vs. #20 Mississippi State and #5 Georgia vs. #12 Ole Miss.
Sunday:
  • SEC Tournament Finals – possible matchup between #5 Georgia and #6 Texas A&M
  • #29 Oklahoma State at #1 Oklahoma – Will the Sooners win Bedlam or will it be Bedlam if Oklahoma State beats them.
  • Several other conference tournament finals
Current Top 10 (includes BU/TX result)

Rank School Points
1 Oklahoma 84.79
2 Baylor 76.74
3 Illinois 70.44
4 Virginia 65.04
5 Texas A&M 64.42
6 Georgia 62.40
7 Duke 62.38
8 TCU 61.62
9 USC 61.60
10 Texas 58.22

3 Comments

  1. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    Lol!!! One True Champion!<br /><br />Oklahoma has 3 head to head wins, a higher rank and they probably will declare Baylor. It is moot of Tech or Oklahoma State win. Since they are at home, I'd be surprised. I do think Oklahoma State will win the doubles point.

  2. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    I'm sure Oklahoma would get the #1 due to the H2H. Of course this is the same conference that pulled that stunt in football and wouldn't declare Baylor the champ even though they had the H2H over TCU.

  3. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    If Oklahoma and Baylor end up tied and they probably will, who gets the Big XII tourney number 1 seed? Does Oklahoma based on head to head?<br /><br />I think either would prefer to play Texas in the semis versus TCU. TCU's young guys are starting to really come together.