Harry Cicma

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Harry Cicma

Country (sports)	United States
Residence	West New York, New Jersey, Miami, Florida
Born	(1982-02-18) February 18, 1982 (age 39) Providence, Rhode Island
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Singles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Doubles
Career record	1–5 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, Futures, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 1262 (June 16, 2003), No. 75 Team Race (February 16, 2004)
Last updated on: N/A.

Harry Cicma (born February 18, 1982) is an American former tennis player and TV Broadcaster.

Early life and TV Career[]

Harry Cicma was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to George Cicma and Carol Cicma.^[1] After graduating high school, he joined Rutgers University's Division I varsity tennis team^[2] and United States Tennis Association tournaments.^[3]

After getting his first professional on-air TV position at the 2003 US Open Tennis Championships in New York City, Cicma went on to work for other outlets. Harry also won an Emmy Award with WNBC News 4 New York, for his on-air reporting during Hurricane Sandy. He is also the TV voice of World Team Tennis.^[4]

TV career[]

Cicma has worked as a sports anchor for numerous stations including , News 12 New Jersey, WSHM, WFSB-TV, WJAR-TV, and recently WNBC and the NBC Sports Group.^[5]

Cicma is the Host and Executive Producer of the Nationally syndicated TV series, "World Tennis with Harry Cicma" for NESN. He is the founder of Harry Cicma Productions LLC. Harry has served as the Executive Producer and Host for National Productions, including FXFL Football, Turkish Airlines Open Golf, Richard Branson's Necker Cup Tennis, The Miami Marathon, Brooklyn Boxing, Fencing Masters NYC and World Team Tennis.^[6]

Cicma has announced Tennis for every major TV Network, including ESPN2, NBC, CBS Digital, Tennis Channel and FOX Sports Net. He also served as the US Open Master of Ceremonies on Arthur Ashe Stadium Court, and at Madison Square Garden.^[7]

Harry is an inductee of the Greek Sports Hall of Fame, and Classical High School Sports Hall of Fame.

Professional tennis career[]

2002-2004: Professional debut[]

Cicma's first ATP Tour professional event was in October 2002 at the age of 20 at the 2002 Miller Lite Hall of Fame Championships in doubles with . They lost in the round of 16 to Gabriel Trifu and Glenn Weiner.

Cicma and Schweitzer began 2003 at the , they were defeated in the first round by Federico Browne and Ignacio Hirigoyen before their loss in to Bjorn Rehnquist and Marcus Sarstrand.

Cicma and Schweitzer began 2004 by qualifying for the main draw, round of 16, of the ATP 2004 Siebel Open where they faced Jürgen Melzer and Karsten Braasch.

In 2016, Cicma made his return to Professional Tennis, competing with fellow American Evan King. Cicma and King played doubled together in the Main Draw of the ITF ATP Puerto Rico Open Futures in Mayaguez. They defeated Sam Beddow and Erwin Rodriguez in the opening round, 6–3, 6–1, en route the Quarterfinals, where they fell to eventual singles Champion Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Quinton Vega 7–5, 6–4.

2003, 2007, 2008 Singles[]

Cicma made his solo player debut in 2003 at the but he lost to and in , Cicma lost to in first round.^[8]

Harry's career best singles victory was over former top 40 World Ranked player Bud Schultz, in the opening round at the 2003 Weymouth Invitational Money Championship, he went on to lose to Great Britain Olympian Kyle Spencer in the next round.^[9]

Cicma won the Robert Freeman Memorial USTA Red Clay Money Championships in 2006. He also won the Rhode Island State Closed Men's Championship (a non ATP Tour sanctioned event).

Cicma began 2007 by losing at 2007 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships to Jim Thomas.

Cicma's final professional event was in July 2008 at age of 26 at the 2008 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships but lost to Michael McClune, 6–0, 6–0 in the qualifying rounds.

During the USTA Juniors, while at Classical High School, Cicma was ranked Nationally in both singles and doubles. He represented New England at the USTA Nationals, a top 10 USTA Nationally Ranked Doubles player in America, prior to getting recruited by Rutgers University. At Rutgers, while graduating Cum Laude, and being named a 4 Time All Big East Academic Team Selection. During college, Cicma was an elected Rutgers University Senator, and member of the WRSU-FM Radio Station, and RUTV. He was inducted into the Rutgers Cap and Skull Honor Society, regarded as the top honor for any Rutgers Graduate.^[10]

In 2018 Cicma was inducted into the Greek Sports Hall of Fame, for his work in TV and Media; along with Pete Sampras, Bob Costas, Eric Karros, and Steve Lappas.

In 2008, Cicma was inducted into the Classical High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

Post-tennis career[]

Cicma began his Sports Anchoring career in 2004, immediately upon graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in Journalism and Political Science. Since retiring from singles tennis competition after the 2008 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Harry continued his work as a Network TV Sports Anchor, and Producer for various National Broadcasts.

Personal life[]

Cicma is Greek, Christian, and currently lives in West New York, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida

References[]

External links[]

• Harry Cicma at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Harry Cicma's Twitter Page
• Harry Cicma's Facebook page
• Harry Cicma Productions