No. 2 Baylor Sweeps UT Arlington
WACO, Texas – No. 2 Baylor men’s tennis (14-2) swept UT Arlington (1-2) Wednesday evening at the Hurd Tennis Center, 7-0.
BU collected 12 victories, including eight of the nine dual matches and an additional four unattached battles. Twelve different Bears saw action in the win.
No. 33-ranked Matias Soto/Nick Stachowiak got it started with their first dual win as partners in doubles, 6-1 over UTA’s Nick Beamish/Angel Diaz on court two. After Charlie Broom/Sven Lah fell at the top spot, 6-4 to Alejandro Hayen/Alan Sau Franco, it was the duo of Constantin Frantzen and Spencer Furman who clinched the point for Baylor, winning 6-3 on court three against Solano Caffarena/Eduard Simo.
Meanwhile, Christopher Frantzen and Sebastian Nothhaft grabbed a 6-1 win in unattached competition over Daichi Akiyoshi/Miguel Cabrera.
As singles began, it was No. 66 Co. Frantzen who put BU’s next point on the board with a 6-3, 6-0 victory on court six over Simo. Furman was next off the court with a 6-1, 6-4 win against Hayen at No. 3 singles to stretch the lead to 3-0.
Ryan Dickerson sealed the match for Baylor with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Caffarena on court five, then passed the baton to No. 74 Stachowiak for a 6-3, 6-2 victory on court two against Sau Franco.
Holding a 5-0 lead in the match, two tight battles remained in action on courts one and four. Finn Bass held off Cabrera in two tiebreakers to claim a 7-6(6), 7-6(5) straight-set victory, then No. 46 Adrian Boitan scratched back from a deep hole to finish the sweep in the top spot.
After dropping the first set, Boitan trailed by as much as 5-2 in the second before staging his comeback. He climbed back to win the set 7-6(3) and went on to claim the third set breaker 13-11 to seal the victory.
On the Riverside Courts, Nothhaft outlasted Beamish for a 6-2, 6-7(3), 1-0(9) victory, Ch. Frantzen breezed past Akiyoshi 6-2, 6-4, and Joseph Chen picked up a 6-4, 6-1 win.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Baylor improved to 17-5 all-time against UT Arlington and has won each of the last 15 meetings.
• Nine of BU’s last 11 wins over UTA have been 7-0 sweeps.
• Each of Baylor’s last five victories have been sweeps.
• The Bears are now 12-4 in the doubles point this season.
• BU is 11-1 in matches when winning the doubles point.
• The Bears are now a combined 69-8 in singles play and 33-12 in doubles action during the dual season.
• With his 97th-career doubles win, Constantin Frantzen moved into sole possession of fifth place on Baylor’s all-time leaderboard.
STAT OF THE MATCH
12 – Baylor earned 12 total victories on the day.
TOP QUOTES
Interim head coach Michael Woodson
On today’s match…
“It’s easy for guys, when they don’t have the best preparation and things are a little uncomfortable, to just say it’s not my day. So I was extremely impressed with Finn [Bass] and Adrian [Boitan] in particular, who haven’t had the preparation that some of the other guys had, that got down and didn’t take their hands out of the fire. UT Arlington, they fight hard, they compete great, they’re well coached, they never give up, and they make it extremely difficult on our team, which is why I love playing against them. Our guys just got so much out of that by just keeping their hands in the fire. I was really proud of a lot of the guys, but in particular Adrian and Finn for just not letting go there at the end.”
WHAT’S NEXT
The Bears (14-2) will head to North Carolina for a tough test against a pair of ranked opponents. BU will meet up with No. 16 NC State (4-3) on March 2 for a contest in Raleigh, then head to Winston-Salem to face No. 13 Wake Forest (9-2) on March 4.
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