FORT WORTH, Texas – No. 9 Baylor men's tennis finishes off the non-conference slate with a familiar foe in No. 1 TCU on Friday. The match is set for 5:30 p.m. at the Friedman Tennis Center in Fort Worth. 
 
The Bears (17-2) will meet the Frogs (16-2) in a non-conference matchup before starting Big 12 play on April 1, with BU winning four of its last five matches played this season.
 
TCU currently leads the all-time series at 35-29, but Baylor has won five of the last six matches, with four of the contests taking place in 2021 alone.
 
The Bears come off a tough road loss to then-No. 12 Michigan, where they fell 4-0. It was just the second loss of the season, first on the road, and the first time BU had been swept this spring. The then No-18 duo of Sven Lah and Finn Bass bested the No. 10 pairing of Nino Ehrenschneider/Andrew Fenty, 6-3, to improve to 9-4 for dual-match season. They are on a two-match winning streak and have now recorded two wins over nationally ranked opponents.
 
In the latest set of rankings from the ITA, Adrian Boitan is now 15^th, Lah 31^st, and Matias Soto 50^th for singles, while Lah and Bass are 30^th in doubles.
 
Boitan boasts a hot 12-0 singles winning streak going into the match, all on court one, while also going 8-3 in doubles with former Frog Tadeas Paroulek. Lah is currently 10-4 in singles with a 7-4 record on court three. Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi is 15-2, Bass is 11-4, Soto is 8-4, Paroulek is 6-1 and Marko Miladinović is 5-4 in singles on the spring. The duo of Soto and Grassi Mazzuchi goes into the match at 12-4, all happening on court two.
 
The Horned Frogs have five singles players ranked and have doubles pairs taking over the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 slots in the ITA. TCU is coming off a 4-1 win over then-No. 45 SMU to face the Bears, downing then-No. 65 South Florida just days before at 6-1. The Frogs are on a four-match winning streak.
 
Links to live scoring as well as live PlaySight streams of the courts can be found on Baylor men's tennis' schedule page.
 
A full recap and final statistics will be posted to BaylorBears.com after the conclusion of play.
 
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