Eliot Spizzirri
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| Bio | He is an American tennis player. Spizzirri won the 2019 US Open Juniors title with fellow American Tyler Zink. Spizzirri achieved a career-high ITF Junior Ranking of No. 20 on September 9, 2019. 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. During his ITF junior career, Spizzirri secured five other ITF doubles titles and two singles titles from 2016 to 2018. In 2017, Spizzirri won the 16s doubles title at the USTA Easter Bowl with Spencer Whitaker. On November 18, 2018, Spizzirri won an ITF title in doubles at the Campeche, Mexico Grade 1 tournament. He played college tennis at the University of Texas, where in 2023 and 2024 he was the ITA National Player of the Year, one of only four college tennis players to finish as the top-ranked singles player twice since the ITA rankings began in 1981. In 2023, he was also the ITA Senior Player of the Year. Both years his ranking qualified him for the Accelerator Programme, an ATP/ITA collaboration to accelerate the professional development pathway for players in the American Collegiate system. In both 2023 and 2024, Spizzirri was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-American Men's Tennis Team, earning first-team honors both years and in 2024, he was named the Team Member of the Year, the organization's top honor for men's tennis. He finished the 2023 season as the No. 2 ITA Collegiate Doubles player with partner Cleeve Harper. 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. Spizzirri was a four-time ITA All-American in doubles and a three-time ITA All-American in singles. In the Big 12, he was a two-time Player of the Year, the first player in Texas history to win the award twice. The 2024 season was the fourth straight Spizzirri earned All-Big 12 recognition, having been on the first team in both singles and doubles in 2023, the second team in both in 2022 when he played through injury, and the first team in both in 2021. He set two Big 12 Player of the Week Award records, achieving the honor 5 times during a season, which he has done twice, and 11 times during his career. He was the No.1 national tennis recruit in 2019. 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. 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. 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. Spizzirri has won two ITF World Tennis titles in 2024, capturing the M25 Tulsa, USA in June and the M25 Laval, Canada in July. He also reached the finals of the M25 Wichita, USA, in June, losing to former Texas teammate Micah Braswell, as well as the double final with Cleve Harper. He recorded his first main draw ATP Tour win at the 2024 Hall of Fame Open over Li Tu as a wildcard. Ranked No. 343, he made his singles Grand Slam debut at the 2024 US Open after qualifying for the main draw. |
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