BYU women’s tennis competes at the Battle for the Boot JAE Foundation Open from Thursday, Oct. 22 through Sunday, Oct. 25 at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
There is no honest first-serve conversion to give you yet. BYU’s official event record marks the tournament all day and retains the authoritative time_tba flag. TCU lists the same four-day window but has not published a daily order of play, draw, live-results route, stream or radio option. Fort Worth is one hour ahead of Mountain time, but a time-zone conversion cannot begin until the organizer posts a time.
That makes this a How to Follow guide rather than a promise that a broadcast exists. Start with the BYU women’s tennis schedule and TCU’s official schedule. They are the two useful refresh points if the host adds a draw or results link.
BYU Battle for the Boot follow information
| Event detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Event | Battle for the Boot JAE Foundation Open |
| Mountain dates | Thursday, Oct. 22 through Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026 |
| Start times | TBA; BYU lists the event as all day |
| Venue | Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center, Fort Worth, Texas |
| Venue address | 3609 Bellaire Drive North, Fort Worth, TX 76109 |
| Time zone | Central time in Fort Worth, one hour ahead of Mountain time |
| TV/stream | No official broadcast or stream published |
| Radio | No official radio listing published |
| Draw/live results | No official 2026 draw or results route published |
| Official BYU event | Schedule record 25563 |
| Permanent schedule | BYU women’s tennis schedule |
| Host schedule | TCU women’s tennis schedule |
TCU identifies the Friedman Tennis Center as the host site. Its facility page lists 27 total courts, including six varsity courts and five indoor courts. That gives the organizer room to move a large individual event, but it does not tell us which court BYU will use or whether a specific session will be indoors. Check the posted order before traveling rather than treating the facility’s public hours as a tournament schedule.
Admission terms have not been published for this event. TCU’s standard public court fees are not tournament ticket information, so they should not be used as an admission price.
The format is still a blank, and that changes how to follow it
The public 2026 pages confirm an individual fall tournament, not a dual match. BYU, TCU, Baylor, Houston, Illinois and LSU each list the Fort Worth event on an official schedule. That verifies part of the field. It does not prove those are the only teams, and it does not assign any player to the draw.
The host has not posted a bracket, daily matchup sheet or scoring format. Last year’s field and results can help explain the name, but they cannot settle this year’s entries or pairings. Do not assume a single-elimination championship draw, a hidden team score or a repeat of a 2025 opponent.
The safest scorekeeping method is player by player:
- Separate singles from doubles. A singles loss does not end a player’s doubles tournament.
- Record the opponent, school and full set score for every posted match.
- Distinguish main-draw advancement from an extra match. Both are useful, but they answer different questions.
- Treat an unfinished score as unfinished. A player can save match points without winning, and a first-set score cannot be promoted into a final.
- Recheck pairings daily. Fall tournaments can alter doubles teams and orders without creating a new BYU event page.
This is one of those weekends when a tidy team record can be less informative than the score sheet. BYU could win several matches without a team trophy being available. It could also split eight individual results and still uncover a pairing that matters in the spring.
Bergeson arrives with the most important result on the roster
Sage Bergeson enters Fort Worth five days after securing an NCAA Singles Championships bid at the ITA Mountain Regional. Her path included five main-draw wins and two very different recoveries.
She lost the first set to Utah State’s Terezia Mlkva, then won 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. In the quarterfinal, Bergeson opened with a 6-0 set against Boise State’s Tereza Polakova, lost the second 4-6 and again won the third 6-3. The semifinal demanded more: Bergeson trailed Wyoming’s Silver Bijlsma 6-1, 4-1, saved four match points, took a 12-10 second-set tiebreak and closed the third 6-2.
That run gives Fort Worth a sharper question than “Can she keep winning?” Bergeson already owns the NCAA place. The useful test is how she resets after the heaviest week of her fall.
A clean opening match would show that the regional comeback did not require a long emotional runway. A difficult match would test whether she can return to patient point construction without treating every deficit like another four-match-point emergency. Neither outcome changes her NCAA qualification. Both can tell us something about the player who will enter the national draw in Athens next month.
BYU has not published its Battle for the Boot entries, so Bergeson should not be placed in the field until a roster or draw confirms it. The same rule applies to every Cougar discussed below.
Bluestein’s next step is the deciding set
Chelsea Bluestein reached the singles quarterfinal at the Mountain Regional and took Bijlsma to three sets before falling 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. That result followed her September semifinal at the USTA SoCal Championships.
Two substantial fall brackets have now put Bluestein near the last weekend. The gap is no longer whether she can beat several players in succession. It is whether the second-set repair carries through the decider against the player who has survived the same week.
Fort Worth may not reproduce a conventional bracket, so a semifinal label is not the only useful outcome. Watch how Bluestein handles her first long singles match, especially if she splits the opening two sets. A straight-set win would be welcome. A third-set finish would answer the question her regional left behind.
Korhonen and Tan have a pairing worth preserving
Cara Korhonen and Sue Yan Tan reached the regional doubles semifinal. They beat New Mexico’s Maria Matsoukatidi and Yu Yun Tsai 8-1, edged Utah’s Maya Inouye and Adriana Zurita Berdecio 8-7, then beat Colorado’s Pia Rebec and Louise Ternstroem 8-2 before Colorado’s Lera Alexin and Ema Bubalo stopped them 6-4, 6-2.
The 8-7 win is the receipt to keep. Early-round doubles can disappear in one loose return game, and Korhonen-Tan survived the set that reached the tiebreak. Their semifinal loss then asked for steadiness across standard sets rather than one pro set.
If BYU keeps the pair together in Fort Worth, note the format before comparing scores. An 8-5 pro-set win and a 6-4, 6-2 standard-set win are not the same workload. If BYU changes partners, that is useful news too. It means the coaches are still testing combinations rather than treating one regional run as a finished spring lineup.
Bluestein and Yuyun Chen also reached the regional doubles quarterfinal. Bella Lewis and Bergeson won an opening match, while Sephi Sheng and Allegra van der Walt reached the round of 16. BYU has options. Fort Worth can show whether the program values continuity after Provo or uses the weekend to broaden those options.
The rest of the roster needs a result that travels
Nine Cougars entered the regional singles main draw, but Bergeson and Bluestein were the only BYU players left by the quarterfinals. That does not erase the extra-match wins by Korhonen, Tan, Allegra van der Walt and Angelique van der Walt. It does separate consolation progress from championship advancement.
The next useful result for that group is a win over a new opponent outside the Mountain region. TCU, Baylor, Houston, Illinois and LSU represent several conferences and regional paths. An official draw could add more schools. Different opponents matter because familiarity can make regional tennis feel narrower than it is.
Chen’s case is especially interesting. She entered the Mountain Regional as the seventh seed but lost in straight sets to Mlkva, whom Bergeson beat one round later. One result does not erase Chen’s place in the fall order. Fort Worth gives her a quick chance to replace a seeded exit with a complete match against a different style.
Sheng and both van der Walts can do something similar. An extra-match victory proves a player responded after elimination. A main-path win against a fresh field proves she can start the next event before a loss forces the response.
A practical four-day follow plan
Thursday should answer the entry question. Check the BYU and TCU schedules for a roster, draw or daily results sheet. Save the official document rather than relying on a social graphic that may show only selected matches.
On Friday and Saturday, build a simple ledger with separate singles and doubles sections. Include match format and whether the result came in the main path or an added match. If an official page uses “unfinished,” preserve that label.
Sunday is for conclusions only after the organizer posts final scores. Count verified wins, identify the deepest singles and doubles runs and compare the score shapes with Provo. Do not invent a team placement if the tournament does not publish team scoring.
Our Bergeson regional recap has the five-win qualification path. The regional follow guide explains why individual results should not be flattened into a dual-match score. The women’s tennis hub keeps the roster and schedule together.
What comes next
BYU lists the Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe from Oct. 30 through Nov. 1 after Fort Worth. The ITA Sectional Championships follow in Los Angeles, Nov. 5-8, for qualified entries. Bergeson’s NCAA Singles Championships run is scheduled for Nov. 17-21 in Athens, Georgia.
Those destinations give Battle for the Boot two jobs. It is a turnaround test for the Cougars who played deep into the regional, and it is another chance for the rest of the roster to produce a result that deserves to travel into November.
The first job for fans is simpler: wait for the order of play. Four confirmed dates are useful. A made-up first serve is not.
Sources and further reading
- BYU Athletics event 25563 for the stable event ID, Fort Worth location, scheduled status, all-day label and authoritative
time_tbamarker. - BYU Athletics: 2026 fall schedule announcement for BYU’s Oct. 22-25 Fort Worth window and remaining fall schedule.
- BYU Athletics: Bergeson qualifies for NCAA Individual Nationals for BYU’s full Mountain Regional results, Bergeson’s comeback and the program’s next-event confirmation.
- TCU Athletics: 2026 fall schedule for the event’s full name, Oct. 22-25 dates, TCU host status and Friedman Tennis Center venue.
- TCU Athletics: Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center for the address, court inventory and facility facts.
- Baylor Athletics: 2026 fall schedule for independent confirmation of Baylor’s Oct. 22-25 participation and the Fort Worth venue.
- Houston Athletics: 2026 fall schedule for independent confirmation of Houston’s participation.
- LSU Athletics: 2026 fall schedule and Illinois Athletics schedule for additional independently listed participants.
- TCU Brand Central: official color palette and BYU Brand: official colors for the two-sided palette used in the original editorial hero.
- BYU Sport Nuts: women’s tennis schedule, roster, Bergeson NCAA recap and Mountain Regional follow guide.
