No. 6 Vols suffer first loss of spring tennis season

Horned Frogs edge Tennessee, 4-3, in men’s tennis.

No. 5 TCU (5-0) defeated No. 6 Tennessee (7-1), 4-3, Sunday at Bayard H. Freeman Tennis Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Vols earned the doubles point against TCU by winning two of three doubles matches.

Tennessee lost its first match of the 2024 spring season as Shunsuke Mitsui and Filip Pieczonka recorded singles victories for the Vols.

Tennessee-TCU tennis results

Doubles
1. #26 Johannus Monday/Angel Diaz (UT) def. #7 Sebastian Gorzny/Pedro Vives (TCU), 6-3
2. #34 Shunsuke Mitsui/Filip Pieczonka (UT) def. Jake Fearnley/Jack Pinnington (TCU), 6-3
3. #15 Duncan Chan/Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Younes Lalami/Filip Apltauer (UT), 6-1

Order of finish: 1,3,2

Singles
1. Jake Fearnly (TCU) def. #20 Johannus Monday, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(3)
2. #34 Shunsuke Mitsui (UT) def. #3 Jack Pinnington (TCU), 6-4, 6-2
3. Filip Pieczonka (UT) def. #14 Pedro Vives (TCU), 7-6(5), 6-4
4. #30 Sebastian Gorzny (TCU) def. Filip Apltauer (UT), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
5. #64 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. Angel Diaz (UT), 6-3, 6-2
6. Tomas Jirousek (TCU) def. Chris Li (UT), 6-3, 6-2

Order of finish: 2,4,3,5,1,6