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AUSTIN, Texas - Six months ago, Max Tchoutakian saw Texas freshman Christian Sigsgaard for the first time and lost in straight sets at the ITA All-American in Tulsa, Okla.

"The guy was just ripping the ball to every corner," Tchoutakian said. "I was impressed."

Flipping the table, the 51st-ranked Baylor senior upset the 22nd-ranked Sigsgaard, 6-3, 6-1, Wednesday night to help the fourth-ranked Bears (21-4, 2-1) dominate No. 8 Texas, 4-1, at Caswell Tennis Center for their 10th straight win in Austin.

"I knew it was going to be a tough match, and I just fought for every point," Tchoutakian said. "I think I had the right game plan today, because Coach helped me so much. I think I played one of my best matches. And it's always good to beat Texas on the road."

But then, that's all Tchoutakian and the Bears have known. They haven't lost in Austin since April 1999, and have won 21 of the last 25 matchups overall after losing 36 of the first 37.

"You saw a team today that was re-energized and responded to some adversity in a really first-class way," coach Matt Knoll said of the team bouncing back from Sunday's 4-3 loss at home to Oklahoma State.

Baylor got things started off on the right foot in doubles. The 13th-ranked duo of Juan Benitez and Will Little polished off the Longhorns' Yuya Ito and Harrison Scott, 6-3, then Jimmy Bendeck and Johannes Schretter clinched the first point with a 6-2 victory over 67th-ranked George Goldhoff and Leo Telles at No. 2.

That momentum carried over into the singles, with the Bears winning four of the six first sets, including Bendeck cruising to a 7-1 tiebreaker win over Telles on Court 5.

Knoll said all six players fed off the energy that permeated through every court. "You could feel it, you could hear it," he said.

"We call it the Grandma test," Knoll said. "If my mom comes and looks out there, I want her to think you're winning, regardless of what the score is. And that's what you had today. If you just walked up and didn't know anything about tennis, and just looked out there and watched the body language and watched the energy, you thought everybody was winning. And that's all you can ask. You do that, then things will go well."

Tchoutakian looked like he had somewhere else to go, running Sigsgaard off the court at No. 2 singles.

"I had break point almost every single service game for him, which is actually pretty impressive, because he has a massive serve," Tchoutakian said.

When they saw him at the All-American in the fall, Knoll said, "We didn't really know what to expect and were a little overwhelmed by his physicality."

"We didn't have a plan, we didn't know him," Knoll said of the first meeting. "So today, we had a plan, and I think Max really as much as anyone played every single point with a purpose. It's a clichÃÆ' © in a way - go out and play every point - but he did. And could see it, he was locked-in. . . . He made it hard on the guy every game."

While three of the matches split the first two sets, including freshman Constantin Frantzen battling back to take the second set on Court 6 (3-6, 7-5), the 12th-ranked Benitez won the last three games in a back-and-forth second set to close out the 48th-ranked Scott, 6-3, 7-5.

Benitez, who had struggled mightily with his backhand in two straight losses, hit a down-the-line backhand winner to break Scott's serve and then had back-to-back aces in the final game to finish it off.

"Juan, as much as anybody, in the last couple of days has worked really hard to improve," Knoll said. "We made some adjustments with the way he's hitting the ball off the backhand side. It's not easy to do. A lot of guys, you come in and say you want to make a technical change, they say and then they don't want to. He really wanted to and embraced it and worked his tail off to make some adjustments. His backhand was way better, and it's going to continue to get better. You see his backhand in a year, and you're not going to recognize it."

Little got broken late in a 6-1, 7-5 loss to Goldhoff at No. 4, with the Longhorns (18-6, 1-2) getting their only point of the night.

But, the 78th-ranked Schretter ended it a few minutes later and clinched the match when he rallied from a second-set loss to upset 42nd-ranked Ito, 6-4, 1-6, 6-0, at No. 3.

"He lost a lot of close games in the second set, and frankly he got a little off track as a result of it," Knoll said of Schretter, who had not dropped a set since March 17. "Once he got down a break, he sort of lost his edge. Then, he was revitalized when the third set started and he started winning the close games. And the other guy lost his edge."

Baylor will take the Easter weekend off before hosting ninth-ranked and league-leading TCU (14-4, 2-0) at 6 p.m. next Wednesday, April 19, at the Hurd Tennis Center.

"What a stupid league we're in, it's just ridiculous," Knoll said of a Big 12 Conference that includes four of the top nine teams in the country and five of its six teams ranked in the top 16. "Now, we get TCU, which was predicted to be the best team in the league at the start of the season and has been really hot. It just doesn't get any easier. That's why we all came to Baylor, we want to see these kinds of matches. . . . It makes it fun and makes guys better."

The Bears have won seven-straight overall against the Longhorns, but have controlled the series even more when it is played in Austin - not losing a match in the capital city since April 22, 1999.

BU roared to a victory in the doubles point. First, the 13th-ranked crew of Juan Benitez and Will Little produced a 6-3 victory over Yuya Ito and Harrison Scott at the No. 1 spot.

That victory was followed by an upset victory for Jimmy Bendeck and Johannes Schretter over No. 67 George Goldhoff and Leo Telles, 6-2, at the No. 2 spot. The BU duo jumped out to a 4-0 lead and never looked back to clinch the opening point.

The 51st-ranked Tchoutakian pulled the first upset of the day with a 6-3, 6-1 triumph over No. 22 Christian Sigsgaard on the court two. The BU senior had lost to the Texas freshman 6-3, 6-2 in October at the ITA All-American Championships, but turned the tables in Wednesday's contest. Texas got its lone point of the match as Little faltered against Goldhoff, 6-1, 7-5, to cut the lead to 2-1.

Less than five minutes later, No. 12 Juan Benitez polished off 48th-ranked Harrison Scott, 6-3, 7-5. Benitez fell down 2-0 in the second set, but won the next four games and then dropped the next three to find himself down 5-4. From that point, Benitez won the next three games (two holds and a break), including two aces in his final service game for the victory.

To clinch the match, the 78th-ranked Schretter recorded an upset of his own, charging past No. 42 Ito, 6-4, 1-6, 6-0, at the No. 3 spot. Schretter's second-set loss was his first set loss since March 17, after he had won six consecutive matches in straight sets. However, the sophomore wasted little time getting back on track with the shutout in the third set.

Meanwhile at the bottom two spots in the lineup, the Bears forced both matches in to third sets to keep Texas from tightening the match. Bendeck won his opening set against Telles, while Frantzen produced a 7-5 victory in the second-set against Rodrigo Banzer at the No. 6 spot.

NOTABLES
- Baylor holds a 22-9 advantage over Texas during the Big 12 era.
- The Bears have also taken 10 of the last 11 and 19 of the last 22 matches from UT.
- Texas leads the all-time series against Baylor, 40-22.
- The last loss to Texas was in 2010 in Waco.

TOP QUOTE #1
"I am really proud of the guys for the way they bounced back from a tough loss the other day. The guys came out in the next practice ready to focus and ready to get better. You saw a team today that was re-energized and responded to some adversity in a really first class way." -- head coach Matt Knoll on the match

TOP QUOTE #2
"This is a huge win. What a stupid league this is. It is just ridiculous. It just doesn't get any easier. That's why we all came to Baylor, because we want to play these kind of matches. It is great that the Big 12 is the best men's tennis league in the country. It just makes guys better and it is fun." - Knoll on Big 12 conference play

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor will now have a week off before taking on No. 9 TCU at home in Waco on Wednesday, April 19.

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