The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Legout named ITA Men’s Tennis National Player of the Year
06.13.2025 | Men's Tennis
With freshman Timo Legout earning the honor, it marks the third-straight year a Longhorn has been National Player of the Year.
Austin – Texas Men's Tennis freshman Timo Legout was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Men's Tennis National Player of the Year, the organization announced Friday.
Legout closed the season ranked No. 1 in singles by the ITA, which led to the honor, marking the third-straight year it has gone to a Longhorn after Eliot Spizzirri won it in consecutive years in 2023 and 2024.
Legout is now the third different Longhorn to hold the top singles spot at the end of the season since the rankings began in 1981, along with Spizzirri, and Steve Bryan in 1990.
With that, Texas is just the second school all-time to have players finish at No. 1 in three-straight years, 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.
Recently tabbed an ITA All-American in both singles and doubles after also closing the season ranked No. 6 in doubles, Legout was the SEC Player of the Year, SEC Freshman of the Year and SEC Tournament MVP, along with the ITA Texas Region Rookie of the Year.
Legout was 35-3 in singles 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 then-No. 20 Rudy Quan of UCLA.
Legout 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, which also qualified him for All-America honors, he was the singles and doubles champion at the ITA Texas Regionals, and the MVP of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
