Eliot Spizzirri (born 23 December 2001) is an American

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player. Spizzirri has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 620 on 25 July 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 795 on 13 September 2021. Spizzirri won the 2019 US Open – Boys' doubles title with fellow American Tyler Zink. He currently plays college tennis at the

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, where he achieved the

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Collegiate Singles ranking of No. 1 on 8 February 2023 and a then career-high doubles ranking of 3 on 7 March 2023. He finished the 2023 season as the No.1 ranked

Collegiate Singles player in the country and the No. 2

Collegiate Double player with partner Cleeve Harper. His ranking qualified him for the inaugural Accelerator Programme, an

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collaboration to accelerate the professional development pathway for players in the American Collegiate system. Spizzirri was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Men's Tennis Team, earning first-team honors. 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

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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. He was the No.1 national tennis recruit in 2019.

Career

Spizzirri received a wild card into the singles qualifying round of the 2021 US Open, where he defeated ATP No. 163

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5–7, 7–6, 6–3 in the first round. He also received a wild card into the doubles main draw that year with Tyler Zink, where they lost in the first round. On November 18, 2018, Spizzirri captured his first ITF title at the Campeche, Mexico Grade 1 tournament. In 2021, Spizzirri won the singles title of the 2021 ITF Futures in Decatur, Ill and captured the doubles title at the 2021 ITF Futures in Champaign, Ill., with Ben Shelton

Junior career

Spizzirri achieved a career-high ITF Junior Ranking of 20 on 9 September 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

Personal

Spizzirri's twin brother, Nick, is a first-team All-American squash player at the

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who finished 11th at the 2019

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Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

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