Francesco Passaro

Francesco Passaro
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Perugia, Italy
Born	7 January 2001 (age 23); Perugia, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$164,378
Singles
Career record	2–5 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 119 (7 November 2022)
Current ranking	No. 119 (7 November 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
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. 293 (26 September 2022)
Current ranking	No. 332 (7 November 2022)
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
	Last updated on: 31 October 2022.

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

Passaro has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 119 on 7 November 2022 and doubles ranking of world No. 293 on 26 September 2022.^[1]

Career

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

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 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]

Challenger and World Tennis Tour Finals

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

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	Terence 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