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#151

Micah does it! He tops #6 Andres Martin of Georgia Tech, 6-2, 6-3, to move on to the #NCAATennis Round of 32! It's his highest-ranked win this year, and his sixth-straight victory, all in straight sets, with only one of those sets even reaching four games! #HookEm 🤘🎾
#152

Make that 2️⃣ top-15 wins for the Horns today! Siem Woldeab defeats #12 Garrett Johns of Duke, 6-4, 6-4, to advance to the #NCAATennis Round of 32! #HookEm 🤘🎾
#155

3️⃣ for 3️⃣ for the Horns! Eliot Spizzirri downs #51 Tyler Stice of Auburn, 6-2, 6-1, to advance to the #NCAATennis Round of 32! #HookEm 🤘🎾
#156

That makes 2️⃣! Eliot Spizzirri joins Micah Braswell in the #NCAATennis Round of 16 with a 6-3, 6-4 win over #49 Jeffrey von der Schulenburg of Virginia! #HookEm 🤘🎾
#157

It's an #NCAATennis Singles Round of 16 and Doubles Opening MATCH DAY!🎾 https://t.co/UpgptqlRdV🕛 Micah Braswell 12 pm ET/11 am CT🕛 Eliot Spizzirri 12 pm ET/11 am CT🕞 Cleeve Harper/Eliot Spizzirri 3:30 pm ET/2:30 CT#HookEm 🤘🎾
#158

Eliot to the Elite 8️⃣! Eliot Spizzirri is into the #NCAATennis Singles Quarterfinals with a 7-5, 7-6 (3) win over #52 Pedro Rodenas of Duke! #HookEm 🤘🎾
#159

Cleeve Harper and Eliot Spizzirri are on to the #NCAATennis Doubles Round of 16 with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) win over #24 Jordan Chrysostom and Ryan Fishback of Virginia Tech! #HookEm 🤘🎾
#161

Harper and Spizzirri into the semifinals 

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#163

Great return from Cleeve Harper to secure the break and the first set with Eliot Spizzirri 🆚 Georgia Tech, 6-1! #NCAATennis #HookEm 🤘🎾
#164

Eliot laces the return for the win with Cleeve to put them in the doubles title match!They'll face the winner of #16 James Trotter/Andrew Lutschaunig of Ohio State and #64 Daniel De Jonge/Tim Zeitvogel of Pepperdine tomorrow at 11:30 am ET/10:30 am CT!#NCAATennis #HookEm 🤘🎾 https://t.co/wB0MsZnXAg
#165

Cleeve Harper and Eliot Spizzirri finish an incredible year as #NCAATennis National Runners-Up, ITA All-Americans, first-team All-Big 12, Big 12 No. 1 position champs, ranked top-3 most of the season and with a 28-14 record after a 6-4, 6-4 decision to Ohio State. #HookEm 🤘🎾
#167

Spizzirri ends the season #1 regardless in the final rankings. Second player to do so at Texas (Steve Bryan 1990)

Spizzirri/Harper finish #2

#168

Looking for a new assistant - Brandon Wagner has been named head coach at Clemson

#169

Congrats to Eliot Spizzirri on being one of just five men's players selected to the @usta Collegiate Summer Team!The USTA Player Development program is designed to help premier college players assimilate to pro tennis!#HookEm 🤘🎾
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#170

Fire CDC, this guy sucks! 

Former @VandyMTennis associate head coach Ryan Lipman will be the new @TexasMTN assistant coach. The 3-time All-American spent the last 6 seasons coaching at his alma mater & also had a 1-year stint as @AuburnMTennis assistant coach. ITA high ranks of #1 in doubles/#4 in singles.

He’s actually probably a good hire, but that’s not Surly enough. 

#172

🗣️ "I think I'm ready to give it a try, I feel mentally ready"The top college player from 🇺🇸, Eliot Spizzirri, is set to make his Challenger Tour debut this week in Bloomfield Hills ⬇️#ATPChallenger | @ITA_Tennis
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#173

I feel like Spizzirri won’t be back next season, but that announcement didnt seem like a definitive declaration he’s not coming back next season. Who knows 

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#174
On 7/1/2023 at 1:22 PM, Aleemay said:

Micah Braswell's brother is in the portal 👀

Florida transfer Jonah Braswell has committed to Texas, per his insta.

 

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#176

Spizzirri is struggling on the pro circuit so far. He’s 0-3 this month and hasn’t even managed to win a set. Disappointment for him, but perhaps he’ll take a hard look at coming back to UT for one more year.

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#177

Eliot Spizzirri, the top-ranked player in college from @TexasMTN, wins his #USOpen qualifying first round 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-1 against #167 Matteo Gigante. Spizzirri trained at the USTA BJKNTC as a junior and also won a qualifying round at the USO in 2021.

#180

This is from iPhone as we speak. 

Eliot Spizzirri, the top-ranked player in college from @TexasMTN, wins his #USOpen qualifying first round 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-1 against #167 Matteo Gigante. Spizzirri trained at the USTA BJKNTC as a junior and also won a qualifying round at the USO in 2021.

 

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#184

Spizz preseason #1 in singles, Bailly 16, Micah Braswell 17, Woldeab 28, Jonah Braswell 45

Spiz/Harper #1 in doubles, Woldeab/Bailly #9

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#185

This team will be salty. I'm already looking forward to the season in January.

I imagine the singles lineup will be:

1. Spizzirri 
2. Bailly
3. Woldeab
4. Braswell M.
5. Braswell J. 
6. Harper

Braswell bros could team up in doubles too. We're going to be a tough team to beat. 

 

#186
14 hours ago, Js1 said:

Spizz preseason #1 in singles, Bailly 16, Micah Braswell 17, Woldeab 28, Jonah Braswell 45

Spiz/Harper #1 in doubles, Woldeab/Bailly #9

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We've got double No. 1️⃣s with Eliot Spizzirri in singles and Spizzirri and Cleeve Harper in doubles in the preseason @ITA_Tennis rankings! #HookEm 🤘🎾
And a total of 2️⃣ in doubles! #HookEm 🤘🎾

 

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#187
15 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

This team will be salty. I'm already looking forward to the season in January.

I imagine the singles lineup will be:

1. Spizzirri 
2. Bailly
3. Woldeab
4. Braswell M.
5. Braswell J. 
6. Harper

Braswell bros could team up in doubles too. We're going to be a tough team to beat. 

 

Show me a loss?

#188
Are you ready for some 🎾? Time to mark those 📆 starting with fall tennis at the TTC with the Longhorn Invitational from Sept. 22-24!https://t.co/W3roqb04qW#HookEm 🤘🎾

 

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#189
On 9/5/2023 at 7:19 PM, perfectchaos007 said:

This team will be salty. I'm already looking forward to the season in January.

I imagine the singles lineup will be:

1. Spizzirri 
2. Bailly
3. Woldeab
4. Braswell M.
5. Braswell J. 
6. Harper

Braswell bros could team up in doubles too. We're going to be a tough team to beat. 

 

The team is even more loaded now. 

Timo Legout (UTR 13.87) of France has verbally committed to @TexasMTN and will join the Longhorns for spring of 2024. The 21yo has an ITF juniors career-high ranking of #12 & ATP career-high ranks of #406 in singles/#647 in doubles. Highest UTR Rating of any newcomer this season.

 

#190

Feels like the volleyball team from 2 years ago. It's a super team and anything other than a national title will be a disappointment. 

Well we thought time away from the pandemic would end the superteam era but @TexasMTN is certainly making a push for it to continue! https://t.co/fKE3epd1NY

 

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#191

I mean we bring back practically everyone from our team last year that finished the regular season ranked #1, and now we just added 2 pieces to make us considerably better. I love that the 2nd match of the season is against the team that upset Texas in the NCAA tournament last season (and went in to win the title). Texas Tennis Center should be packed to watch that match 

#192
19 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I mean we bring back practically everyone from our team last year that finished the regular season ranked #1, and now we just added 2 pieces to make us considerably better. I love that the 2nd match of the season is against the team that upset Texas in the NCAA tournament last season (and went in to win the title). Texas Tennis Center should be packed to watch that match 

Plus, didn't the teams that made the final 4 lose quite a few players? 

This feels like we're heavy favorites to win it all. 

#193

This has to be NIL don't you think? I hope we're doing this across the board. This is how you flex your muscles. Build super-teams and we already saw it work with the volleyball team last year. 

We’re officially past the era of being able to reasonably account for a team’s 4.5 scholarships. Texas brought back its top 5 from last year, plus adds Jonah Braswell, Timo Legout, and gets Lucas Brown off his redshirt. https://t.co/fytF9fRzg9

 

#194
11 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

This has to be NIL don't you think? I hope we're doing this across the board. This is how you flex your muscles. Build super-teams and we already saw it work with the volleyball team last year. 

We’re officially past the era of being able to reasonably account for a team’s 4.5 scholarships. Texas brought back its top 5 from last year, plus adds Jonah Braswell, Timo Legout, and gets Lucas Brown off his redshirt. https://t.co/fytF9fRzg9

 

Here's how things work, and will work for awhile, in the non-revenue sports as it pertains to NIL. There are a few routes for leveraging it.

1) Crowdfunding leads to a competitive floor difficult for other programs to match. In a sport like tennis, assume $10k/player plus any overhanging school expenses, can fend off a great many other programs. That's years with worth of a crowdfunding build, most likely.

2) A single or few major patrons fund a coach's needs, up to ridiculous numbers in order to win bidding wars.

3) Serious corporate NIL either irrelevant to the program (Dunne at LSU) or completely relevant to the program (layers of corporate interest in Austin). 

The men's tennis portion of crowdfunding is not meaningful at this point, at least as far as TOF is involved. There are some benefactors to some extent. There's probably some element of corporate support, especially if that can be parlayed into sponsorships when the player goes to Europe or goes pro. 

I won't pretend to know how heavily involved any of those components are for Texas right now, but it's not nothing, and I haven't heard of any other school getting serious about NIL for men's tennis.

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#195

Timo has signed his paperwork!

Spizziri also won the ITA Singles over the weekend - third ever Longhorn to win it.  Followed it up by finishing as runner-up with Cleeve Harper in doubles.  First Longhorns duo to make it that far. 

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#196

Oh hey, another one. 

More brotherly love for the #TexasTennisFamily! Welcome to the 40, Gilles-Arnaud!📖 https://t.co/ekrsVPbFj2#HookEm 🤘🎾 | 📸Getty Images

 

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#198

With Gilles enrolling in January, this is absolutely the most talented roster ever at Texas. If NCAA played 8 lines of singles, there's no one in the country that could perceivably beat us. However, just 6 lines of singles gives other teams a chance if a few of our guys have an off day. I'm excited to see what this team can accomplish. 

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#199
Micah Braswell won his second title in as many weeks by taking the @ITA_Tennis Fall Nationals, and combined with Eliot Spizzirri to sweep that and the All-American Championships for just the second time in program history!📖 https://t.co/i6tTwfCrK1#HookEm 🤘🎾🏆 | 📸 ITA

Spizzirri and Braswell should be the #1 and #2 ranked singles players come January when the spring rankings release. This team is stacked 

#200

This team not winning a title might be more disappointing than if the volleyball team didn’t win one last season. 

Crazy expectations but that’s what you want. 

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