David Roditi Explained

David Roditi
Current Title:Head coach
Current Team:TCU
Current Conference:Big 12
Birth Date:30 November 1973
Birth Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Alma Mater:Texas Christian University
Player Years1:1993–1996
Player Team1:Texas Christian University
Coach Years1:2000–2002
Coach Team1:Texas (assistant)
Coach Years2:2010-present
Championships:NCAA Tournament: 2024
ITA Indoor National Championship: 2023, 2022
Big 12: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022
Big 12 Tournament: 2016, 2017, 2023
Awards:Wilson/ITA National Coach of the Year: 2015
Big 12 Coach of the Year: 2015, 2016

David Roditi Jiménez (born November 30, 1973) is a tennis coach and former player from Mexico. He is currently serving as the head men's tennis coach at Texas Christian University, his alma mater.

Born in Mexico City, Roditi grew up in Guadalajara and Manzanillo, then moved to the United States as a teenager; he attended high school in San Clemente, California. [1]

Roditi participated in 10 Davis Cup ties for Mexico from 1997 to 2000, posting a 5–5 record in doubles. He was also Mexico's Davis Cup captain in 2016. [2]

Playing career

Roditi played at Texas Christian University from 1993 to 1996 under head coach Tut Bartzen. During this time, playing both singles and doubles, he won a school-record 250 total matches.[3] He earned All-Southwest Conference honors in both singles and doubles in 1994, 1995 and 1996 and was named to the Rolex Collegiate All-Star team in 1996. He was named to the Letterman's Hall of Fame for Texas Christian University in 2007.

As a professional, Roditi focused mostly on doubles competition, in which he achieved a career-high world ranking of 41 in 1998 and made the finals in four events:

ResultW-LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Aug 1997San MarinoClay Brandon Coupe Cristian Brandi
Filippo Messori
5–7, 4–6
Loss0–2Feb 1998Memphis, U.S.Hard (i) Ellis Ferreira Todd Woodbridge
Mark Woodforde
3–6, 4–6
Loss0–3Apr 1998Estoril, PortugalClay Fernon Wibier Donald Johnson
Francisco Montana
1–6, 6–2, 1–6
Loss0–4Oct 1998Mexico City, MexicoClay Daniel Orsanic Jiří Novák
David Rikl
4–6, 2–6

Coaching career

Following the conclusion of his professional playing career, Roditi moved to Austin, Texas in 2000 to become an assistant coach at the University of Texas and then as the Associate Director of Tennis at St. Stephen's Episcopal School. In 2005, he moved to Carson, California to become the Lead National Team Coach at the USTA Training Center.

On September 7, 2010, Roditi was named the head men's tennis coach at TCU.

References

  1. Web site: David Roditi looking to forge ahead at TCU. Tennis Recruiting Network. 26 January 2011.
  2. Web site: Roditi Named Mexico Davis Cup Captain. College Tennis Today. 9 June 2016.
  3. https://www.fwweekly.com/2017/05/10/tcu-men-holding-court/