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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – February 7, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">No. 11 Baylor MT Set to Host No. 3 TCU, No. 17 Arizona</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351, </span><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Baylor men’s tennis plays host to third-ranked TCU and 17<sup>th</sup>-ranked
Arizona on Wednesday and Friday nights at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center, with first serve scheduled for 6 each night.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bears (5-2) welcome TCU to Waco for the first of at least two matchups against each other this season, with the Bears scheduled to travel to Fort Worth April 6 for a
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In the 2022 season, the Bears took two of the three matches against the Horned Frogs, including the Big 12 Championship title match that finished in a 4-2 decision to hand
Baylor its third-straight postseason championship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Frogs (7-0) currently hold ranked wins against No. 10 Tennessee in Knoxville and No. 14 North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Arizona (5-1) is 0-1 against ranked opponents this season after falling to then No. 6 Texas, 4-0, in the ITA Kickoff Weekend Regional Championship match. The Wildcats begin
their Texas road trip against the Bears on Friday before heading to Austin to face Texas again on Sunday.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Baylor leads the all-time series against Arizona 3-1, with BU’s three wins coming in each match since 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In the ITA coaches’ poll, the Bears moved back up one spot to No. 11 in last Wednesday morning’s edition of the poll, which matches their highest ranking of the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Finn Bass and Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi are at No. 3 in the doubles rankings released at the end of the fall season, with the pair splitting for Bass' No. 23 and Grassi
Mazzuchi's No. 115 rankings in singles. Tadeas Paroulek and Zsombor Velcz also boast a No. 59 ranking in doubles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The first round of individual spring rankings will be released Wednesday morning before the match.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Velcz and Marko Miladinović lead the team with five singles wins each so far this season, while Paroulek and Velcz have a perfect 5-0 record in doubles.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Live stats will be available to follow online and Cracked Racquets will be providing commentary with the Playsight stream on YouTube.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To stay up to date throughout the season on all things Baylor men’s tennis, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @BaylorMTennis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- BaylorBears<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">.com</span></span><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">_________________________________________</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#073D1E">Colin Pirtle</span></b><span style="color:#073D1E"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">| Associate Director of Athletics Communications (T&F, XC, MTEN) </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">C: 940-564-0351</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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