Francesco Passaro

Francesco Passaro
	Passaro at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Perugia, Italy
Born	7 January 2001 (age 23); Perugia, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	2019
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Roberto Tarpani
Prize money	$531,358
Singles
Career record	4–11 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 108 (13 February 2023)
Current ranking	No. 226 (19 February 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2023, 2024)
French Open	Q1 (2023)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2023)
US Open	Q2 (2022)
Doubles
Career record	0–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 256 (20 February 2023)
Current ranking	No. 561 (19 February 2024)
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
	Last updated on: 22 February 2024.

Francesco Passaro (born 7 January 2001) is an Italian tennis player.

Passaro has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 108 on 13 February 2023 and doubles ranking of world No. 256 on 20 February 2023.^[1]

Career edit

2021: ATP debut edit

Passaro made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw.

2022: Masters and NextGen Finals debuts edit

He played his first ATP Challenger Tour final at the 2022 Sanremo Challenger and he was defeated in three sets by the world No. 91 Holger Rune.

He made his Masters debut at the 2022 Rome Masters as a wildcard.

He won his first Challenger in July 2022 in Trieste, Italy becoming the 20th #NextGenATP winner in 2022. As a result he reached a new career-high in the top 150 of world No. 144 on 25 July 2022.^[2]

He qualified for the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals.^[3]

2024: Back to top 200 edit

He received a wildcard for the 2024 Chile Open in Santiago. He also entered main draw the ATP Challenger 125, the 2024 Tennis Napoli Cup this time as an alternate, and reached the semifinals. As a result he returned to the top 200 in the rankings on 1 April 2024.

Grand Slam performance timeline edit

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	P#	DNQ	A	Z#	PO	G	S	B	NMS	NTI	P	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles edit

Tournament	2022	2023	2024	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q2	Q2	0–0
French Open	A	Q1		0–0
Wimbledon	A	Q1		0–0
US Open	Q2	Q1		0–0
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Open	A	Q2	A	0–0
Madrid Open	A	Q1		0–0
Italian Open	1R	1R		0–2
Win–loss	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–2

Challenger and World Tennis Tour finals edit

Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups) edit

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (1–4)
ITF World Tennis Tour (3–2)

Titles by Surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (3–5)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2019	M15, Gubbio, Italy	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Gonzalo Villanueva	5–7, 2–6
Win	1–1	Apr 2021	M15, Cairo, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Giacomo Dambrosi	6–1, 6–4
Win	2–1	Aug 2021	M15, Xativa, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Iñaki Montes de la Torre	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
Loss	2–2	Jan 2022	M15, Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Mattia Bellucci	4–6, 5–7
Win	3–2	Feb 2022	M15, Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Térence Atmane	7–6^(7–3), 6–2
Loss	3–3	Apr 2022	Sanremo, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Holger Rune	1–6, 6–2, 4–6
Loss	3–4	Jun 2022	Forlì, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Lorenzo Musetti	6–2, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	3–5	Jun 2022	Milan, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Federico Coria	6–7^(2–7), 4–6
Win	4–5	Jul 2022	Trieste, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Zhang Zhizhen	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Loss	4–6	Sep 2022	Como, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Cedrik-Marcel Stebe	6–7^(2–7), 4–6

Doubles: 6 (3–3) edit

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)
ITF World Tennis Tour (3–1)

Finals by Surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (3–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Mar 2019	M15 Murcia, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Lorenzo Bocchi	Eduard Esteve Lobato Álvaro López San Martín	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Apr 2021	M15 Cairo, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Daniele Capecchi	Luke Johnson Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi	7–5, 6–4
Win	2–1	Aug 2021	M15 Xàtiva, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Imanol López Morillo	Alberto Barroso Campos Benjamín Winter López	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–1	Oct 2021	M15 Madrid, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Carlos López Montagud	Lucas Bouquet Stefan Micov	6–0, 6–3
Loss	3–2	May 2022	Vicenza, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Matteo Gigante	Francisco Comesaña Luciano Darderi	3–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Loss	3–3	Feb 2023	Tenerife, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Matteo Gigante	Christian Harrison Shintaro Mochizuki	4–6, 3–6