# Eliot Spizzirri

Eliot Spizzirri (born December 23, 2001) is an American tennis player. Spizzirri has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 144 and a doubles ranking of No. 187, both achieved on March 3, 2025.

## Junior career

Spizzirri achieved a career-high ITF Junior Ranking of No. 20 on 9 September 2019.
He played singles and doubles in all four 2019 junior grand slam events. 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.

## College career

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.

## Professional career
### 2021-2023: Grand Slam debut in doubles

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 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).

### 2024: First ATP win, Grand Slam and top 250 debuts

Spizzirri received a wildcard into the singles qualifying round of the 2024 Miami Open but lost to JJ Wolf in the first round.
Spizzirri won two ITF World Tennis titles, 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 Cleeve 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. Two months later, he made his top 250 debut on 14 October 2024, following his first ATP Challenger final in Tiburon.

### 2025: First Challenger title, top 150

Spizirri won his first ATP Challenger Tour title at the 2025 San Diego Open and reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 144 on 3 March 2025. At the same tournament he also won the doubles title partnering again with compatriot Tyler Zink.

## Personal life

Spizzirri's twin brother, Nick, is a first-team All-American squash player at the University of Pennsylvania who finished 11th at the 2019 World Junior Squash Championships. In 2024, he was part of the US team that competed in the World Team Squash Championships held in Hong Kong, finishing 13th out of 32 teams.

## ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals
### Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger Tour (1–2)
* ITF WTT (3–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (4–3)
* Clay (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Sep 2024 | Tiburon Challenger, USA | Challenger | Hard | Nishesh Basavareddy | 1–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Jan 2025 | Cleveland Open, USA | Challenger | Hard (i) | Colton Smith | 4–6, 7–6$^{(8–6)}$, 3–6 |
| Win | 1–2 | Feb 2025 | San Diego Open, USA | Challenger | Hard | Mackenzie McDonald | 6–4, 2–6, 6–4 |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Aug 2021 | M25 Decatur, USA | WTT | Hard | Aidan McHugh | 6–2, 7–5 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Jun 2024 | M25 Wichita, USA | WTT | Hard | Micah Braswell | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 2–1 | Jun 2024 | M25 Tulsa, USA | WTT | Hard | Bernard Tomic | 6–4, 3–6, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$ |
| Win | 3–1 | Jul 2024 | M25 Laval, Canada | WTT | Hard | Karl Poling | 6–4, 6–3 |

### Doubles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner-ups)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger Tour (3–2)
* ITF WTT (2–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (5–3)
* Clay (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Jul 2023 | Lexington Challenger, USA | Challenger | Hard | Tyler Zink | George Goldhoff Vasil Kirkov | 4–6, 6–3, [10–8] |
| Loss | 1–1 | Sep 2024 | Tiburon Challenger, USA | Challenger | Hard | Patrick Kypson | Luke Saville Tristan Schoolkate | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Nov 2024 | Knoxville Challenger, USA | Challenger | Hard (i) | Micah Braswell | Patrick Harper Johannus Monday | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 2–2 | Jan 2025 | Canberra Tennis International, Australia | Challenger | Hard | Ryan Seggerman | Pierre-Hugues Herbert Jérôme Kym | 1–6, 7–5, [10–5] |
| Win | 3–2 | Feb 2025 | San Diego Open, USA | Challenger | Hard | Tyler Zink | Juan José Bianchi Noah Zamora | 6–7$^{(3–7)}$, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, [10–8] |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Nov 2019 | M15 Austin, USA | WTT | Hard | Tyler Zink | Ian Dempster Justin Butsch | 4–6, 6–3, [10–7] |
| Win | 2–0 | Jul 2021 | M25 Champaign, USA | WTT | Hard | Ben Shelton | Chung Yun-seong Rio Noguchi | 6–4, 6–0 |
| Loss | 2–1 | Jun 2024 | M25 Wichita, USA | WTT | Hard | Cleeve Harper | Pranav Kumar Joshua Sheehy | 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 3–6, [8–10] |

## Junior Grand Slam finals
### Doubles: 1 (1 title)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 2019 | US Open | Hard | Tyler Zink | Andrew Paulson Alexander Zgirovsky | 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 6–4 |