FORT WORTH – This week, the NCAA titles are at stake for TCU. Duncan Chan, Lui Maxted, and Pedro Vives are all set to participate in the NCAA Individual Championships, which begin on Tuesday at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco. All three players have qualified for the 64-man singles draw, and Maxted and Vives are also competing in doubles. Maxted was awarded the No. 6 overall seed in singles, while Vives received seeded positioning in both singles and doubles alongside Maxted.

TCU's Tennis Stars Shine at the NCAA Championships

Pedro Vives: A Tough Draw and Impressive Showings

At the ITA All-American Championships, Pedro Vives faced a challenging draw. The lowest-ranked player he defeated was No. 28 Ryan Colby of Georgia in the round of 32. He then bettered three preseason top-15 opponents, including No. 2 Michael Zheng (Columbia), with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory in the quarterfinals. In the opening round, he walloped Cornell's No. 6 Papoe, 6-1, 6-0. His round of 16 win over No. 15 Jay Friend (Arizona) was a straight-set 6-1, 6-4 victory. Vives holds a career fall doubles record of 24-12 and is TCU's active career leader in combined overall victories with 135. Of his wins, 77 are in doubles. This is his first appearance in singles at the NCAA Individual Championships.

Lui Maxted: A Standout September and Qualification

Lui Maxted began the season ranked 39th and earned his No. 6 seed largely on the strength of a standout September. He kicked off the fall season by posting a runner-up finish at the prestigious Battle in the Bay Classic, defeating Friend and No. 44 Theo Dean of Cal along the way. At the ITA All-American Championships, he bettered Tennessee's 34th-ranked Alex Kotzen, 7-6 (1), 6-1 in the opening round and then downed Dean a second time. He locked up his spot at the NCAA's with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 defeat of No. 35 Will Jansen. Maxted is 6-4 vs. ranked players this fall and is making his debut at the NCAA Championships. He and Jong qualified in doubles in 2023 but did not participate.

Duncan Chan: An Alternate's Journey to the Championships

Duncan Chan was an alternate for ITA Sectionals and was added to the bracket as an injury replacement the day before play began. In his first match, he faced his teammate, fellow sophomore Julian Alonso, who earned a wild card. Chan took a 6-4, 6-2 decision in the all-TCU battle. In the round of 16, he faced match point against Michigan's Patorn Hanchaikul. He won the first set 6-1 but surrendered a set two tiebreaker, 4-7, and trailed 3-5 in the decisive third frame. He then won the ensuing four games and clinched the match on receive. The following day, playing loose, Chan outclassed Baylor's Oskar Brostrom Poulsen, 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinals to advance to the NCAA's. Chan leads TCU in combined overall victories this fall with 19 and is 11-4 in singles play.

Lui Maxted and Pedro Vives: A Signature Win in Sectionals

In the Sectionals quarterfinals, Lui Maxted and Pedro Vives picked up a signature win by defeating No. 3 Togan Tokac and Guilo Perego of Texas A&M, 7-6 (1), 6-4. They received a walkover in the finals and secured an automatic bid after Michigan's Gavin Young and Bjorn Swenson withdrew due to injury. At the All-American Championships, they reached the doubles quarterfinals, putting them a win away from qualifying back in September. Playing their third match of day three of the event, they found themselves on the wrong end of a 10-8 tiebreaker after alternating 7-5 sets with Baylor's Marko Miladinovic and Poulsen. The senior tandem is 5-2 overall and 3-0 in ranked tilts in 2024-25.The NCAA Individual Championships are being held in the fall for the first time ever as a part of a two-year pilot program between the NCAA and ITA. Players qualified through four ITA invitationals from September-November. Vives and Maxted punched their tickets in singles after reaching the quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships. Chan finished as a singles finalist at the ITA Central Sectional Championships on Nov. 9 in Fort Worth. Vives and Maxted reached the doubles final at Sectionals.TCU has qualified 19 singles competitors and 24 doubles teams for the NCAA Championships since 1977. Eight Frogs have reached the NCAA Championships in the last three seasons, including All-Americans Juan Carlos Aguilar, Jake Fernley, Luc Fomba, and Jack Pinnington, as well as two-time ITA Indoor National Champion Sander Jong. David Pate and Karl Richter won the 1981 NCAA doubles title, which remains TCU's sole NCAA Individual Championship. TCU has advanced at least one player to the second round of singles play for 10 consecutive seasons dating back to Cameron Norrie's quarterfinal run in 2015. Norrie became the first Frog to reach the semifinals the following season, and fellow three-time All-American Alex Rybakov became TCU's second and most recent singles semifinalist in 2019. Together, they are two of four players in program history to advance to the quarterfinals or farther. Esteban Carril (1999) and Tracie Fielding (2001) also accomplished this feat. In doubles, TCU has sent 10 pairings to the final eight and four to the semifinals. The Horned Frogs' most recent final four appearance came via Jerry Lopez and Reese Stalder in 2017.Last season, Fearnley and Pinnington won two singles matches apiece to reach the round of 16. Both players began their individual runs less than 24 hours after leading TCU to its first NCAA team championship in a 4-3 win over Texas on May 18 in Stillwater, Okla.The tournament will air live on ESPN+ via a Cracked Racquets CrossCourt cast. Live stats for all singles and doubles matches will be available via iOnCourt.com. The tournament schedule is as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 19 – Singles RD64; Wednesday, Nov. 20 – Singles RD32, followed by doubles RD32; Thursday, Nov. 21 – Singles RD16, followed by doubles RD16; Friday, Nov. 22 – Singles quarterfinals, followed by doubles quarterfinals; Saturday, Nov. 23 – Singles and doubles semifinals; Sunday, Nov. 24 – Singles and doubles championships. All singles and doubles matches are scored as best-of-three tiebreak sets, with a 10-point tiebreaker in effect for doubles affairs tied at one set apiece.