The TCU Horned Frogs men's tennis team represents

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. The team is part of the

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and plays home matches at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center in

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. The Horned Frogs are currently led by head coach

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, who was a three-time All-American in his playing days at TCU.

History

TCU first fielded a varsity men's tennis team in 1974 under Bernard "Tut" Bartzen, who would go on to amass more than 500 victories in his 25 years as head coach. The Frogs made their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1977, led by All-American

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. Fifteen more Horned Frogs earned All-America honors under Bartzen, and twelve more teams made the NCAA Tournament - advancing as far as the national semifinals in 1989 and 1996. Following Bartzen's retirement in 1998, the Frogs were led by a series of short-tenured coaches - Michael Center (1999-2000),

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(2001-2006) and Dave Borelli (2007-2010) - who combined to produce eleven NCAA Tournament appearances and five All-American players. On September 7, 2010, TCU alum and three-time All-American David Roditi was named the program's 5th head coach. As of the 2025 season, he has led the Horned Frogs to ten NCAA Tournament appearances, including nine consecutive since 2015 (the 2020 tournament was canceled due to the

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). In 2015, TCU made the Final Four for the first time since 2001, falling to top-seeded

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. Roditi led them back to the semifinals in 2023, once again losing. TCU broke through in 2024, reaching the national championship for the first time in program history and defeating

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to claim its first NCAA national championship. They again played for the national championship the following year, this time falling to Wake Forest, to whom they also lost the indoor championship earlier that season. In addition to outdoor success, the Horned Frogs have found considerable indoor success under Roditi. The team has qualified for the ITA Indoor Tournament ten times, including seven consecutive trips since 2019. In 2022, the program reached the national championship for the first time, defeating

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4-1 and claiming its first national championship of any kind. This would be the first of four consecutive trips to the championship round, winning again in 2023 and falling in 2024 and 2025.

All-Americans

(1977) *

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(1981, 1982, 1983) * Karl Richter (1981, 1982) * Corey Wittenberg (1983) * Tom Mercer (1986) * Neil Broad (1987) * Earl Zinn (1988) * Clinton Banducci (1988, 1989) * Eric Lingg (1989) * Sandon Stolle (1990) * Tony Bujan (1990, 1992) * Luis Ruette (1990, 1991, 1992) * Paul Robinson (1994, 1995, 1996) * David Roditi (1994, 1995, 1996) *

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(1996, 1997) * Jason Weir-Smith (1996, 1997) *

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(1999, 2000, 2001) * Trace Fielding (2001) * Jimmy Haney (2001) * Rafael Abreu (2006) * Jordan Freitas (2006) *

Cameron Norrie Cameron Norrie (; born 23 August 1995) is a British professional tennis player. He has reached career-high ATP Rankings, rankings of world No. 8 in singles (on 12 September 2022) and No. 117 in doubles (on 13 June 2022). Norrie has won five ATP ...

(2015, 2016, 2017) * Jerry Lopez (2017) *

Reese Stalder Reese Stalder (born 12 November 1996) is an American tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP has doubles ranking of No. 60 achieved on 4 December 2023. He also has a career high singles ranking of No. 956 achieved on 28 ...

(2017) *

Alex Rybakov Alex Rybakov (born January 27, 1997) is an American tennis player. Rybakov has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 289 achieved on August 8, 2022. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 369 achieved on November 8, 2021. He played ...

(2017, 2018, 2019) * Guillermo Nuñez (2018) *

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(2021) * Luc Fomba (2021, 2022, 2023) *

Juan Carlos Aguilar Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar Peña (born 20 November 1998) is a British-born Canadian tennis player of Bolivian descent. On the junior tour, Aguilar has a career high ranking of 23 achieved on 17 October 2016. Aguilar won the 2016 US Open boys' ...

(2022) *

Jacob Fearnley Jacob Fearnley (born 15 July 2001) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 49, achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 238, achieved on 20 May 2024. He is the current British No ...

(2022, 2023, 2024) *

Sebastian Gorzny Sebastian Gorzny (born January 24, 2004) is an American tennis player. Gorzny has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of 38 achieved on 17 January 2022. Gorzny won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. Personal lif ...

(2024) * Lui Maxted (2024) *

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History

All-Americans

Year-by-year results

References

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