Lsmalibu, California – The male tennis team n ° 28 Pepperdine will occupy the front of the stage to play in the UTR Sports College 2025 championships at the BNP, which was held in Indian Wells, California, from this Friday.
The waves will face the n ° 14 Baylor during the first round match on Friday at 9:30 am PT, then will face Sunday 26 Princeton or 45 of Arizona. All the relevant information can be found on the schedule page of the male tennis team on Pepperdinewaves.com.
Match 17: # 28 Pepperdine (9-5) against # 14 Baylor (12-6) | Friday March 14 | 9:30 am PT | Garden of Indian well tennis | Indian Wells, California.
Scout the waves
Setting a sequence of three-game victories against the top-75 teams, the waves of Pepperdine n ° 28 are ready to accelerate the competition in the next two weeks before starting the conference on the west coast.
A seeded from the top-16 of the NCAA tournament is always achievable for the waves, and their best chance of strengthening their CV in the playoffs will be against the Baylor Bears n ° 14. So far, Pepperdine is one of the teams most tested in combat outside the Power-4 ranks: they faced five top 25 teams, 12 teams that have done the NCAA tournament and all their opponents The top-75.
Head coach Adam SchaechterleThe team of the tournament this weekend after winning four of its last five games – and the only defeat was for the national reigning champion TCU Horned Frogs. In the last three games, the waves have won in confidence in all areas and managed business against three teams with aspirations in the playoffs.
Fortunately for the waves, four players have sequences of victories of several games before this weekend. Freshman Power PuertnerWho plays in the fourth position, has won his last four games in two sets. His last three have been routine victories. After being deprived of a career changing victory over Pedro Vives N ° 2 in the TCU match, All-American Maxi Homberg won its last three matches in straight sets, reaching n ° 47 in the last single rankings of the intercollegégial tennis company. Second -year student Edward WinterThe country’s simple n ° 69 player has also won his last three games, while Freshman David Fix won her last two.
Despite five first -year students on the list, the Pepperdine range was consistent all year round in single and double.
The Wave Double, Edward and Hugh winter,, Yesterday won his first victory at the national level with a 7-5 victory against Karim Al-Amin and Ondrej Horak to win the double point against the state of the Middle Tennessee. This victory may be a hard time for the team, which has had most of its unfinished matches so far.
Part of this is due to their teammates. N ° 72 Linus Carlsson Halldin And Maxi Homberg Give the waves an experienced and complete team in second position, while the finalists of the Pacific Coast Côte Double Championship Power Puertner And Aleksa Pisaric looks like rising stars in third place. Liability that they will not be overlooked while first-year students defeating less opponents, Pisaric and Poertner have a 10-2 file with victories on teams from Arizona, Texas A&M, UCLA and USC.
This week’s journey to the desert will be a sort of a vengeance tour for the waves. During this tournament in 2023, the waves fell at n ° 8 USC 4-3 in front of a crowd of hundreds of tennis fans. Pepperdine also follows the series of all time with Baylor 4-9 and seeks to break a losing three-game skid against the Bears.
Through the net
Classified n ° 14 in the last ITA polls with a record of 12-6, the Baylor Bears Take aims to stay in Waco for all the playoffs. Currently, the Bears are in good position to improve the NCAA tournament race last year, which ended with a 4-1 defeat against San Diego in the first round.
The Bears are heated in red this weekend at Indian Wells, after winning their last five games – three of which were bleaching. Their curriculum vitae includes the 25 best victories on Duke and Illinois in the slate without conference, while all their losses were against the 10 best teams.
Baylor could have one of the best alignments of double in the country outside the ACC and the dry. The Bears sent two double teams to the NCAA last fall: n ° 15 Oskar Brostrom Poulsen and Marko Miladinovic, plus n ° 25 Devin Baderst and Zsombor Velcz. However, the association of n ° 79 Badehenrst and Luc Koenig led the team with an 8-2 file in second position. All in all, the Bears have four double classified teams, which helped them win the double point in 12 of their 18 games.
In simple, Baylor has three players classified at the national level: n ° 40 BADEHORST, n ° 96 Brostrom Poulsen and n ° 99 VELCZ. While Badenhorst and Brostrom Poulsen have the first two positions on the simple scale, Velcz divided time in the third and fourth positions. However, Baylor excels in the rear half of the range. Alexandru Chirita leads the team with a sheet of 11-2 and helped the Bears display a percentage of victory of 0.917 in fifth position, while the student Serbian graduate Marko Miladinovic leads the charge in sixth position. Baylor has experience and talent in all programming, which will make them difficult this weekend.
What is the next step
Pepperdine concludes the UTR Sports Collegiate championships against n ° 26 Princeton or the No. 45 of Arizona State on Sunday. An hour’s start was not defined. All the relevant information can be found on the schedule page of the male tennis team on Pepperdinewaves.com.