Eliot Spizzirri shocks Li Tu 6-1 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Newport on Tuesday. Spizzirri will square off with Aleksandar Vukic in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this competition. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Eliot added to his prize money $ 4,515 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 11,610 after this win. If he wins the next match, Eliot will add $ 8,385 to his earnings to get in total $ 19,995 in total.
Highlights Eliot Spizzirri vs. Li Tu Infosys Hall of Fame Open – Newport
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 78 points vs. Tu’s 59.
Spizzirri
Eliot served extremely well to win 80% of the points (33/41) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (12/23) on his second serve. The American won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points after he converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Tu
On the other side, Tu was battling in converting his break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Spizzirri and Tu is 1-0 for Eliot.
Draw and next match H2H: Eliot Spizzirri vs. Aleksandar Vukic – stats
Spizzirri will play Vukic in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Eliot Spizzirri and Aleksandar Vukic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Spizzirri conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Li Tu in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Spizzirri managed to boost his lead after breaking Tu in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before conquering the set.
The American failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 0.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Spizzirri won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to bring the score from 0-0 to 4-0.
The American converted 42% of his break points (3/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 3rd (2-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 7th game (5-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 47 points. The American won 19 points more than the Australian (33-14). Eliot was untouchable on serve to concede barely 1 point during his serving games (16-1). In addition, on the other side, Li conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).
Eliot won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 11th (5-6) game, Eliot broke back in the 12th (6-6) game before bringing the set at the tiebreak that he won 7-4.
Tiebreak
Eliot won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the Australian won a minibreak in the 8th (3-5) point.
Eliot won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
Eliot converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40). Also, on the other side, the Australian converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had his opportunities in the 5th (2-2 40-A), the 6th (3-3 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 90 points. It’s worth to point out that, Spizzirri won this set even if he scored less points 2 than Li (44-46). Eliot surrendered 18 points on serve (29-18). On the losing side, the Australian conceded 15 points on serve (28-15).
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- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-3 6-73 6-1)
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- Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Li TuTu (6-1 7-64)
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- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-1 6-2)
- Maxime CressyCressy – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-4 4-6 7-64)
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Harold MayotMayot (7-61 6-4)
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