Just sayin': Did anyone else notice that Sebastian Gorzny switched teams this year?
TCU’s Sebastian Gorzny entering transfer portal
The sophomore delivered the deciding point during TCU’s National Championship win over Texas.
Sebastian Gorzny has committed to Texas
... Quite a pickup by the Horns. I wonder how much NIL money Gorzny got for that.
Yep, script many tennis fans were left scratching their heads in wonder what could make a player leave a team that wins the championship and join the team they just defeated.
I believe that Texas has sponsors who would offer a bag to get a player at the top of the lineup to transfer, but Gorzny was ranked #77 and played #3-5 lines last year at TCU.
I'm speculating .... but there may have been other factors like classes, dissatisfaction in lineup placement and pro development.
Gorzny ended the season playing the #5 line at TCU, after starting at #3.
He had also been dropped from first to second dubs.
It’s what every junior and college tennis player dreams of – clinching the final match at 3-all to win the NCAA team championship. Just two weeks ago, it was Irvine native Sebastian Gorzny who was living that dream as the Texas Christian University sophomore saw that his teammate Jack Pinnington...
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"In a somewhat surprising move, both Roditi and Bowen said to this reporter first that Gorzny had let them know that he planned to enter the transfer portal, and it was later reported, it would be to Big-12 rival Texas.
“He was looking to take online classes and we don’t offer that at TCU,” Roditi said. “And I know he wanted to play higher in the lineup. At the end of last year, we felt there were four or five guys that could play anywhere from one and five. We had guys that had won Futures during the summer, and Sebastian didn’t. And that’s how we set our lineup. Seb was playing four until the last week of the season. And the lineup obviously worked for us.”
Added Bowen: “I know in his heart he wants to turn pro. If he has a breakout summer, he will turn pro. He wanted to take some online classes. He’s a great student, but he doesn’t want to go to class.”
Gorzny’s family moved to Austin when he was 14, and said he was looking forward to playing closer to home. “I was really looking for a change and my family is there so it would be great to be close to them,” he said. “Turning pro is obviously my goal, but it’s very hard to do. You have to be top 200 or 300 in the world to make a living out there and it’s tough to do.”
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