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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Jan. 12, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Head Coach Woodson Earns 100th Win in Baylor MT Double-Sweep Season-Opener<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Bears take down Lamar and ACU, 7-0<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-tennis/stats/2024-25/lamar/boxscore/29170">Lamar Box Score</a> |
<a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-tennis/stats/2024-25/acu/boxscore/29171">
ACU Box Score</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,
</span><a href="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">josie_hutton@baylor.edu</span></a><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Baylor men’s tennis opened the 2025 campaign in style on Sunday, defeating Lamar and
ACU, 7-0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The two wins on the day marked a new milestone in head coach Michael Woodson’s career as he earned his 100th win in his head coaching tenure after taking the ACU match.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">THE RUNDOWN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">MATCH ONE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Baylor came out in pure dominant fashion for its season-opener against Lamar. The No. 17 doubles duo of Devin Badenhorst and Zsombor Velcz wasted no time finding a 6-1 result
on Court One over Fabian Anthin and Leon Nickel. Right behind them to clinch the first point on the board for Baylor was Luc Koenig and Louis Bowden who defeated Lamar’s Fabian Anthin and Leon Nicken, 6-1.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Playing through, Justin Braverman and Arman Zamani capitalized doubles play with a 6-3 win over Stefano Chappuis and Santiago Ledesman to give BU all the momentum moving into
singles play. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Making his Baylor debut, Alexandru Chirita led the squad in rapid fashion, dominating Stefano Chappuis 6-0, 6-1 on Court Four to begin his Green and Gold career.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Bowden on Court Three followed his teammate’s momentum, wrapping his match 6-1, 6-1 against Anthin. Finishing back-to-back, Zamani and Marko Miladinovic wrapped their singles
wins to clinch the match for Baylor, 6-3, 6-2 and 6-0, 6-2. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Continuing the match, Quintan Van Wijk, an Omaha transfer, earned a 6-3, 6-2 win on Court Six. Wrapping up the dominant sweep for the Bears, No. 54 Zsombor Velcz concluded
the final dagger in the match, defeating Nickel 7-6, 6-3 to give the Bears a prevailing 7-0 victory.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">MATCH TWO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">In one of the many first accomplished in the nightcap of Sunday’s doubleheader, Badenhorst and Luis Jose Nakamine came out swinging and punched in a 6-1 win in the two’s first
time playing doubles together this season. Chirita and Koenig followed behind on Court Two with 6-2 victory over ACU’s Lima and McDonald to give Baylor the first of many points on the board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Into singles, No. 58 Oskar Brostrom Poulsen make quick work over ACU’s Deli, taking down the Wildcat 6-0, 6-2 on Court Two.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Miladinovic picked up on his fellow senior’s stride and took the next match, 6-2, 6-2 to make him 2-0 to open the season. Bowden, following his pattern from the Lamar matched,
earned his second 6-1, 6-1 victory on the day. Chirita battled back from a 3-2 deficit in the first set and take his Wildcat opponent in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3 in his first full day of competition as a Bear.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">No. 25 Devin Badenhorst dominated the first set and pushed through ACU’s Morozov attempts of a comeback to win out 6-2, 7-5. Going into a 10-point third set, ACU looked to
put a lone point on the board in the final match on Court Three, but Koenig held his opponent off to take a 6-1, 5-7, 10-2 win and claim the double-sweep on the day, 7-0.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">HIGHLIGHTS</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• BU is 19-1 in season openers since the 2004 national championship team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Saturday's 2-0 start is the 19th for Baylor men's tennis since 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Last time Bears won their first two matches 7-0 was 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor is 2-0 when winning the doubles point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">STAT OF THE MATCH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">100 – Number of wins in Woodson’s head coaching career with an all-time record of 100-37 over his last five seasons as head coach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WHAT THEY SAID<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Head coach Michael Woodson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">On the team in the first two matches…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">“I thought we did a pretty good job. It’s always hard to play your first dual match of the year. I think they’ve got an excitement, nerves, just getting the juices flowing.
It’s not easy to handle being back out here and I think everybody has high expectations. We want to play really well. That can be a hard thing to manage when you get out onto the court. I thought our guys hit in stride pretty well. I think we had a really
good training week in Palm Springs and came back feeling pretty good. I thought the guys took that into the matches today and started pretty fast and finished pretty strong in a lot of positions.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">On Alexandru Chirita’s Baylor debut…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">“He is a heck of a competitor. The thing that I love the most about him is how coachable he is. He really, really wants to bring value to the team. He wants to make an impact,
not just for himself, but for everybody. He’s willing to do whatever it takes in order to reach the success that we want as a team. It’s not easy to do what he did today. I thought he was near flawless in all three matches that he played. I give him a ton
of credit. It’s hard to do in your first dual matches of any career and to do it so smoothly as he did, it didn’t show much signs of nerves or of anything. Just a fierce, fierce competitor. It was fun to watch.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">On earning 100 career wins as head coach…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">“There are too many people to thank. That’s really all that comes to mind is just how many people have poured into me. My family, my mentors, my coaches that got me into coaching,
all of the amazing players we’ve had, the staff. Jacqui [Haddock] and Izak [Van Der Merwe] have been with me the whole time. It’s even more of them than me to be honest, and just all the other coaches and support staff and just fans and student-athletes. It’s
just incredible to be here at Baylor. Hopefully I’m just getting started.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WHAT’S NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Bears now prepares for a big upcoming weekend as they host the No. 4 and No. 2 teams in the nation with Wake Forest on Friday, Jan. 17, at 1 p.m. CT and TCU on Monday,
Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. CT. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For the latest news on the Baylor men's tennis team all year long, follow its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorMTennis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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