March 5, 2012

WACO, Texas - The 41st-ranked Baylor men's tennis team hosts No. 58 Maryland at the Hurd Tennis Center on Tuesday, March 6 at 2 p.m. It will be the first meeting between the two teams and marks Baylor's eighth ranked opponent of the season.

Baylor , 7-5 on the season, is coming off three straight wins last week with home victories over SMU, St. Edward's and Laredo CC. The Terps, coached by former Baylor assistant Kyle Spencer, are 3-7 on the season after a loss at No. 26 Notre Dame on Sunday.

Baylor is led on the season by 28th-ranked freshman Mate Zsiga's 22-4 season mark; he is 8-1 in dual match play, his only loss coming to then-29th-ranked Ryan Thacher of Stanford. Junior Roberto Maytin, BU's other ranked singles player at No. 125, owns the team's second-best singles record at 17-8, including a 7-3 dual match record. Maytin and freshman Marko Krickovic are ranked No. 26 in doubles with a 5-2 record, but haven't played dual match competition together yet. Maytin and Zsiga, the Bears' top doubles team, are 7-3 in dual-match play while Robert Verzaal and Krickovic, playing at the No. 2 spot, are 7-2 in spring matches.

Spencer's Maryland squad won the doubles point at Notre Dame but couldn't maintain the momentum in singles play as Notre Dame knocked off the Terps 5-2. Like the Bears, Maryland has two ranked singles players in Maros Horny and Vlad Stefan. Horny, a transfer from Baylor, is rated No. 91 and plays at No. 1 for the Terps while Stefan is ranked No. 122. Horny and his doubles partner, John Collins, are ranked No. 36 nationally.

Live scoring and live blog will be available for Tuesday's match.