TULSA, Okla. ā Fresh off hosting the ITA Indoor National Championships, No. 18 Baylor men's tennis will hit the road to face Tulsa on Sunday at 12 p.m. at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center. The match will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
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Baylor (7-6) will look for its third win in four tries on the road in 2025, also besting SMU and Nebraska earlier in the year and falling 4-1 at No. 4 Ohio State.
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The Bears went 1-2 in the ITA Indoor Championships, posting a win over No. 7 Duke, 4-2, and falling vs. No. 4 OSU and No. 1 TCU. Of their six losses on the year, all six have come vs. top-10 opponents. Following the clash with the Golden Hurricane, the Bears will host four straight in Waco, including UTRGV, Illinois, Cornell and Lehigh.
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Tulsa (6-6) owns four wins in six tries at home in the infancy of the season, sporting wins over Omaha, Arkansas, Oregon, New Mexico State and Illinois State.
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The Bears own a 14-3 all-time record against Tulsa and have won seven straight meetings. The last Tulsa win over BU came in 2016, also winning in 2012 and 2013. The Bears swept the last meeting in Feb. of 2024, 7-0.
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Baylor owns a 38-26 overall record in singles in 2025 and an 18-15 mark in doubles.
Alexandru Chirita leads the team with an 8-2 mark in singles, including 5-1 on court 5.
Marko Miladinovic is 7-2 in singles, with a 5-2 record on court 6.
Oskar Brostrom Poulsen is 6-2 in singles, while
Devin Badenhorst is 5-6 on court 1.
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In doubles, Badenhorst and
Luc Koenig are 6-1, with both players combining over their other pairings to go 8-2. Chirita is 5-5 overall in doubles.
Zsombor Velcz is 4-4 in doubles and Brostrom Poulsen and Miladinovic each sport three wins.
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The Bears have three players appearing in the ITA singles rankings, including No. 35 Badenhorst and No. 86 Brostrom Poulsen. In doubles rankings, Miladinovic and Brostrom Poulsen are No. 12, Velcz and Badenhorst are No. 31, Velcz and Brostrom Poulsen are No. 43, and Koenig and Imran Daniel Abdul Hazli are No. 80.
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Tulsa does not own any ranked players in singles or doubles.
