MT Unable to Overcome No. 4 Wake Forest

Friday, January 17

Waco, Texas

12:30 PM

Baylor

Wake Forest

MT Unable to Overcome No. 4 Wake Forest

1/17/2025 4:15:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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Bears fall 4-0 to the Demon Deacons

WACO, Texas – Although the final score indicates a sweep against the Bears, Baylor men's tennis put up a battle against the top-five ranked Wake Forest team, falling 4-0 on Friday afternoon.

Baylor (2-1, 0-0) fell early by dropping the doubles point to Wake Forest (3-0, 0-0). The No. 3 doubles team of Marko Miladinovic and Oskar Brostrom Poulsen were unable to overcome two highly competitive players of DK Suresh and Stefan Dostanic of WF, 6-3 on Court One. On Court Two, No. 17 doubles pair of Devin Badenhorst and Zsombor Velcz took on the No. 4 duo of Luca Pow and Luciano Tacchi but couldn't overcome, 6-4.

Moving on to singles, the first set looked as if Wake Forest had all the momentum with five Demon Deacons taking the first set, the lone Bear of Miladinovic winning his first set 7-5 on Court Six. However, the Bears did not give up easily in the second set.

Alexandru Chirita fell to Wake's Pow in the first set 3-6. However, in the second set, Chirita swung the momentum his way and took the second set 6-4 and force a third set.

Brostrom Poulsen, the No. 58 singles player, took on No. 7 Suresh on Court Two. Brostrom Poulsen dropped the first set 2-6 but battled back to force a second set tie-breaker score at 6-6. The senior captain took the second set at 7-6(6) to give Baylor more momentum.

However, on Courts One, Three and Four, Baylor couldn't hold on and dropped to give Wake Forest a final score of 4-0. No. 25 Badenhorst fell to Dostanic 6-2, 6-1. No. 54 Velcz couldn't overcome No. 115 Ioannis Xilas 7-6(6), 6-3. Louis Bowden fell to Tacchi 6-2, 6-3.

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Head Coach Michael Woodson on moving on from doubles into singles competition…
"We definitely didn't have any momentum in the beginning. When you come out and play a team like this, they are very confident. There are a lot of experienced guys that have been on this team in the past or have been in college tennis for a long time and understand carrying the momentum from doubles to singles, and our guys allowed them to have it. Credit to most of them, they were able to battle back and give themselves a chance at either the end of the first set or moving into the second set. We turned a couple of matches there. That's going to be the name of the game when you play the best teams in the country. You're never just going to win three straight set matches, or if you lose doubles point, four straight matches. We have to be able to turn more than we did. We got a few there and I think that was a positive on a few courts."

The Bears now turn their attention to No. 2 TCU on Monday at 6 p.m. The match will be a nonconference match against the Horned Frogs.

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