Eliot Spizzirri and Li Tu will play each other in the 1st round of the Phoenix Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Eliot Spizzirri who should win in 3 sets.
Eliot Spizzirri -> 1.67
Li Tu -> 2.1
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Prediction and head to head Eliot Spizzirri vs. Li Tu
This will be the 2nd time that Eliot Spizzirri and Li Tu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Spizzirri (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Spizzirri won 6-1 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Newport back in 2024.
Highlights Eliot Spizzirri vs Li Tu – Newport 16-July-2024
Eliot Spizzirri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56-31 | 27-14 | 7-6 | 17-5 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-17 | 28-11 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-10 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-4 | 15-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 144 (career-high), the American will start his run in the Phoenix Challenger after he played his last match in Indian Wells where he lost 6-0 6-1 to Gaston in the qualifications on the 4th of March.
Eliot has a composed 12-6 win-loss record in 2025, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the San Diego Challenger where he beat Mackenzie Mcdonald in the final 6-4 2-6 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 76-46 record. He has a positive 58-32 record on hard.
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Spizzirri has never competed in this tournament before.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-22 | 11-16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 37-21 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 177, Li reached the 1st round after defeating Adrian Mannarino 7-5 6-2 and Giulio Zeppieri 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Zeppieri (6-4 6-2). During the match Tu scored 61 points vs Zeppieri’s 39. Tu was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Tu fired 6 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Li Tu was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (29/33) of his 1st serve and 80% (8/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tu broke Zeppieri 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Tu started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 60% of the points he played.
Li has a compiled 8-7 win-loss record in 2025, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Phoenix Challenger
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-62 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colton SmithSmith – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Brandon HoltHolt (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – H2H and prediction