The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Legout earns ITA No. 1 final singles ranking
05.21.2025 | Men's Tennis
Freshman Timo Legout becomes the third different Texas men’s player to be ranked No. 1 at the end of the season for a total of four times with Eliot Spizzirri and Steve Bryan, and it is the third-straight year for a Longhorn after Spizzirri the last two years.
Austin – Texas Men's Tennis freshman Timo Legout finished No. 1 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) final singles rankings, the organization announced Wednesday. The No.1 ranking qualifies Legout to be the ITA National Player of the Year when the organization announces its awards in June.
Legout becomes the third different Texas men's player to be ranked No. 1 at the end of the season for a total of four times since the rankings began in 1980 with Eliot Spizzirri (2023, 2024) and Steve Bryan (1990). It is also the third-straight year a Longhorn has finished as the top-ranked player after Spizzirri was No. 1 the last two years.
With that, Texas becomes just the second school all-time to have three-straight at No. 1, along with USC, which had Robert Farah in 2010 and Steve Johnson in 2011 and 2012. The four total for the Longhorns now puts them in a tie for third all-time with Stanford and trailing only USC with seven, and UCLA with five.
In addition to being No. 1 in singles, Legout was also No. 6 in doubles with sophomore Lucas Brown. Both Legout in singles and the pair of Legout and Brown in doubles will later be named ITA All-Americans due to Legout's top-20 singles ranking and being a semifinalist in the NCAA Singles Championship, and the top-10 doubles ranking of Legout and Brown, and their semifinalist finish in the doubles championship. Those will be the first All-America honors for both.
Four other Longhorns were also ranked in singles, including junior Sebastian Gorzny at No. 24, senior Pierre-Yves Bailly at No. 60, junior Jonah Braswell at No. 77, and freshman Sebastian Eriksson, who entered the rankings for the first time at No. 100. In doubles, the duo of Gorzny and Braswell were ranked No. 70.
The SEC Player of the Year, SEC Freshman of the Year and SEC Tournament MVP, Legout was 35-3 in singles this year with a 22-2 dual match record and a perfect 12-0 conference record, playing No. 1 in every match. He defeated the No. 1 of every SEC team except Kentucky with that going unfinished while he was up a set and leading in the second set. He has 24 ranked wins, 15 of which are in the top 50, with notable victories over then-No. 4 Cooper Williams of Duke, then-No. 5 Colton Smith of Arizona, then-No. 17 and spring NCAA Singles Champion Filip Planinsek of Alabama, then-No. 17 Stefan Dostanic of Wake Forest, then-No. 18 Jack Pinnington Jones of TCU, then-No. 20 Connor Thomson of South Carolina and No. 20 Rudy Quan of UCLA. He also played No. 1 in 29 of 31 dual matches in doubles and was 7-5 in the SEC with 12 ranked wins overall this year and seven in the top-30. He and Lucas Brown won four of their last five decisions with two of those wins in the top-10 and finished with a 21-13 overall record and 13-12 mark in dual matches. Legout earned four SEC weekly awards throughout the season combined between Athlete of the Week and Freshman of the Week. In the fall, he was a semifinalist in both the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, the singles and doubles champion at the ITA Texas Regionals, and the MVP of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
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