Preview: ITA Texas Regional – TCU Athletics

FORT WORTH – Following a two-week break, TCU is again in motion on the ITA Texas Regional.
 
The five-day affair runs from Friday-Tuesday on the Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station.
 
Competing for TCU are Julian Alonso, Filip Apltauer, Duncan Chan, Albert Pedrico and Kaj Quirijns.
 
All 5 gamers are entered within the singles principal draw and start play on Saturday. 
 
The event represents groups second-of-three probabilities to qualify gamers for the NCAA Individual Championships, held from Nov. 18-23 in Orlando, Fla.
 
From the ITA Texas Regional, each singles finalists and the doubles champions will punch their tickets to sport’s flagship particular person occasion.
 
Chan was one in all 10 gamers to qualify in singles on the ITA All-American Championships in September. He is solely enjoying doubles and is partnered with Quirijns.
 
Alonso and Pedrico are forming an all-Spanish doubles duo.
 
Chan completed because the doubles vice champion as a freshman on the 2023 ITA Texas Regional. He is the perfect particular person story in faculty tennis to this point in 2025-26. Chan notched 10 victories over top-100 gamers in September in his march to an NCAA Individual Championships berth. He swept the Battle within the Bay Classic singles and doubles championships and holds a 16-1 mixed general file.
 
Pedrico is TCU’s highest-ranked participant in singles and doubles. He was awarded the preseason ITA No. 4 doubles rating and was tabbed 77^th in singles.
 
Alonso gained 4 qualifying singles matches on the ITA All-American Championships, together with a straight set victory over No. 115 Gabriele Brancatelli of Florida State, in his season debut.
 
Apltauer was named particular person champion on the U.S. College Cup Invitational on Oct. 4. He gained all three of his singles matches and completed 5-1 mixed on the hidden twin occasion in Torreon, Mexico. Apltauer is 10-3 general this fall and has the second-most victories of any TCU participant.
 
Quirijns performed doubles alongside Apltauer at each the U.S. College Cup and the Milwaukee Tennis Classic in September. A 2024 Big 12 doubles particular person champion, he’s 16-9 for his profession in doubles in fall invitationals.
 
Collectively, TCU has produced a 48-19 mixed file this fall, with 37 of the victories coming in singles.
 
About the ITA Regional Championships
Nearly half of the NCAA Individual Championships area is decided by means of Regionals. A complete of 26 singles gamers and 13 doubles groups will qualify for Orlando from tournaments spanning the whole thing of the contiguous United States.
 
Regionals have been beforehand used to set the bracket for the ITA National Fall Championships, previously acknowledged because the grand finale of fall tennis. The occasion has since been rebranded because the ITA Conference Masters Championships.
 
Tournament Schedule – ITA Texas Regional Main Draw
Friday, Oct. 17 – Two rounds of qualifying singles
Saturday, Oct. 18 – One spherical of qualifying doubles, adopted by principal draw doubles RD32, adopted by principal draw singles RD64
Sunday, Oct. 19 – Quarterfinal doubles, adopted by singles RD32 and RD16
Monday, Oct. 20 – Semifinal doubles, adopted by quarterfinal and semifinal singles
Tuesday, Oct. 21 – Singles and doubles championships
 
Scoring Format – ITA Texas Regional
Doubles matches by means of the quarterfinals are contested as 8-point professional units with a 10-point tiebreaker in place if even at 7-all. Semifinal and championship doubles tilts are scored as best-of-three tiebreak units, with a 10-point tiebreaker in impact if tied at one set apiece. All singles matches make use of a conventional best-of-three format.
 
Frogs within the ITA Singles Rankings
#77 Albert Pedrico
#81 Cosme Rolland De Ravel
#88 Roger Pascual
#106 Duncan Chan
#108 Cooper Woestendick
 
Frogs within the ITA Doubles Rankings
#4 Albert Pedrico / Cosme Rolland De Ravel
#17 Duncan Chan / Cooper Woestendick 
 
Team Notables

• TCU is one in all solely 5 groups within the nation with 5 ranked singles gamers. The others are Ohio State, Texas, Texas A&M and Wake Forest.
• The Horned Frogs are one in all simply three applications with two ITA top-20 doubles tandems alongside Stanford and Texas A&M.
• The Horned Frogs return seven letter winners from a 2024-25 squad that posted a 27-4 general file, gained the Big 12 common season championship and completed because the NCAA nationwide runner-up.
• TCU will sport its youngest roster in years in 2025-26. Four of the Frogs’ 9 gamers are underclassmen. Only three gamers are multi-year letter winners.
• TCU ranks second nationally in complete wins (117) and profitable share (.879) since 2021.
• The Frogs are having fun with the longest dwelling profitable streak in faculty tennis at 34 matches forward of the 2025-26 marketing campaign. TCU completed undefeated dwelling in every of the previous two seasons.
• TCU head coach David Roditi is one in all solely two energetic D1 head coaches who has gained each an ITA Indoor National Championship and NCAA Championship and coached an NCAA particular person champion.
• Under Roditi’s route, TCU has notched 11 consecutive year-end ITA top-10 group rankings, a streak unmatched by any D1 program. The Horned Frogs have cracked the top-five of the ultimate rankings in 5 straight seasons. TCU has moreover boasted a top-10 ITA group rating in 65 consecutive polls courting again to March 10, 2020.
• TCU has captured a league-leading 9 Big 12 common season or event championships during the last decade.
• The Horned Frogs have despatched 9 gamers to the NCAA Individual Championships during the last three seasons. Pedro Vives and Maxted gained the 2024 NCAA Doubles Championship to provide this system its second NCAA particular person title.