Eliot Spizzirri

American tennis player (born 2001)
Eliot Spizzirri
Spizzirri at the 2023 Cary Challenger
Country (sports) United States
Born (2001-12-23) 23 December 2001 (age 22)
Stamford, United States
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CollegeUniversity of Texas
Prize money$126,769
Singles
Career record0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 620 (25 July 2022)
Current rankingNo. 722 (4 March 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
US OpenQ3 (2023)
Doubles
Career record0–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 600 (26 February 2024)
Current rankingNo. 608 (4 March 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open1R (2021, 2023)
Last updated on: 17 March 2024.

Eliot Spizzirri (born 23 December 2001) is an American tennis player. Spizzirri has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 620 on 25 July 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 600 on 26 February 2024. Spizzirri won the 2019 US Open – Boys' doubles title with fellow American Tyler Zink.[1]

College career

He currently plays college tennis at the University of Texas, where he achieved the ITA Collegiate Singles ranking of No. 1 on 8 February 2023 and a then career-high doubles ranking of No. 3 on 7 March 2023.[2] He finished the 2023 season as the No.1 ranked ITA Collegiate Singles player in the country and the No. 2 ITA Collegiate Double player with partner Cleeve Harper.[3] His ranking qualified him for the inaugural Accelerator Programme, an ATP/ITA collaboration to accelerate the professional development pathway for players in the American Collegiate system.[4]

In October 2023, Spizzirri captured the singles title at the ITA Men's All-American Championships, becoming the third player from Texas to do so.[5]

Spizzirri was named the 2023 ITA National Player of the Year and Senior Player of the Year.[6] He was also named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Men's Tennis Team, earning first-team honors.[7] He was a 2021, 2022 and 2023 ITA All-American in doubles, a 2021 and 2023 ITA All-American in singles and has set two Big 12 Player of the Week Award records, achieving the honor 5 times during a season, which he has done twice, and 10 times during his career.[8] He was the No.1 national tennis recruit in 2019.[9]

Career

On November 18, 2018, Spizzirri captured his first ITF title at the Campeche, Mexico Grade 1 tournament.[10]

In 2021, Spizzirri won the singles ITF Futures title in Decatur, Illinois and captured the doubles ITF Futures title in Champaign, Illinois, with Ben Shelton[11]

Spizzirri received a wildcard into the singles qualifying round of the 2021 US Open, where he defeated world No. 163 Alejandro Tabilo 5–7, 7–6, 6–3 in the first round. He also received a wildcard into the doubles main draw that year with Tyler Zink, where they lost in the first round.

Spizzirri competed in the ATP 2023 Lexington Challenger, winning the doubles championship with Tyler Zink with a defeat over George Goldhoff and Vasil Kirkov, and also reached the second round in singles.

He also received a wildcard into the singles qualifying round of the 2023 US Open, where he defeated No. 167 Matteo Gigante 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-1 in the first round, No. 122 Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-4 in the second round before he had to retire in the third set of the final round due to heat exhaustion in his match against No. 154 Emilio Nava at 3-6, 6-3, 1-3. That year he also received a wildcard into the doubles main draw again with Tyler Zink, where they lost to French duo Adrian Mannarino (No. 35) and Arthur Rinderknech (No. 73).

He also received a wildcard into the singles qualifying round of the 2024 Miami Open but lost to JJ Wolf in the first round.

Junior career

Spizzirri achieved a career-high ITF Junior Ranking of No. 20 on 9 September 2019.[12]

He played singles and doubles in all four 2019 junior grand slam events, including Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian Open. Spizzirri reached the doubles round of 16 in all four junior grand slams and the singles round of 32 at the Australian Open.[13]

During his ITF junior career, Spizzirri secured five other ITF doubles titles and two singles titles from 2016 to 2018.[14]

In 2017, Spizzirri won the 16s doubles title at the USTA Easter Bowl with Spencer Whitaker [15]

Personal

Spizzirri's twin brother, Nick, is a first-team All-American[16] squash player at the University of Pennsylvania who finished 11th at the 2019 World Junior Squash Championships.[17]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 2019 US Open Hard United States Tyler Zink Czech Republic Andrew Paulson
Belarus Alexander Zgirovsky 		7–6(7–4), 6–4

References

  1. ^ "US Open: Andreescuová dobyla první grandslam! Velký vzdor Sereny nepomohl". Tenisový svět.
  2. ^ "ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings sponsored by Tennis-Point".
  3. ^ "ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings sponsored by Tennis-Point".
  4. ^ "ATP and ITA Unite to Accelerate Professional Development for US Collegiate Players".
  5. ^ "2023 ITA Men's All-American Championships".
  6. ^ "2023 Division 1 Men's Tennis National Awards".
  7. ^ "2022-23 Academic All-America® Men's Tennis Teams Announced For All NCAA and NAIA Divisions".
  8. ^ "Texas Sweeps Tennis Big 12 POTW Awards".
  9. ^ "Player record Eliot Spizzirri".
  10. ^ "COPA MUNDIAL CAMPECHE FMT".
  11. ^ "2022-2023 Men's Tennis Roster".
  12. ^ "Eliot Spizzirri Juniors Singles Overview".
  13. ^ "2022-2023 Men's Tennis Roster".
  14. ^ "2022-2023 Men's Tennis Roster".
  15. ^ "Past Champions - Easter Bowl champions since 1968".
  16. ^ "Five Named College Squash All-America; Taha, Kueh, and Spizzirri Named to First Team".
  17. ^ "2022-2023 Men's Squash Roster".

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