Francesco Passaro
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Italy Passaro at the 2023 French Open | ||||||||||||
| Country (sports) | Italy | |||||||||||
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| Residence | Perugia, Italy | |||||||||||
| Born | 7 January 2001 Perugia, Italy | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2019 | |||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | |||||||||||
| Coach | Roberto Tarpani | |||||||||||
| Prize money | US $1,449,430 | |||||||||||
| Singles | ||||||||||||
| Career record | 12–23 | |||||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 89 (17 February 2025) | |||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 143 (16 March 2026) | |||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | 2R (2025) | |||||||||||
| French Open | 1R (2025) | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | Q1 (2023, 2024, 2025) | |||||||||||
| US Open | 1R (2025) | |||||||||||
| Doubles | ||||||||||||
| Career record | 0–5 | |||||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 256 (20 February 2023) | |||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 680 (16 March 2026) | |||||||||||
| Team competitions | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 16 March 2026. | ||||||||||||
Francesco Passaro (born 7 January 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player.[1] He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 89 achieved on 17 February 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 256, reached on 20 February 2023.[2]
Passaro plays mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has won three titles in singles.
2021: ATP debut
In May, Passaro made his ATP main draw debut at the Emilia-Romagna Open after receiving a wildcard for the doubles main draw.
2022–23: Masters debut, NextGen Finals and top 150 debuts
In April 2022, playing as a qualifier, Passaro reached his first ATP Challenger final at the Sanremo Challenger, where he was defeated by top-seed Holger Rune in three sets.
The next month, he made his Masters debut at the Italian Open in Rome as a wildcard.
At the Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria, Passaro won the gold medal in men's singles and, with Matteo Arnaldi, the gold medal in men's doubles.[3] He thus shares the record of winning both the singles and doubles titles at the same Mediterranean Games edition with Konstantinos Oikonomidis (2001 Tunis),[4] Nicolás Almagro (2005 Almería),[5] and Blaž Rola (2013 Mersin).[6]
Passaro won his first Challenger title in July 2022 at the Internazionali di Trieste. With this trophy, he became the 20th #NextGenATP winner that season. As a result, he entered top 150, with a singles ranking of world No. 144.[7][2]
Passaro qualified for the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals.[8] He reached a career high ranking of No. 108 on 13 February 2023.
2024–25: First Masters third round, Major & top 100 debuts
Passaro received a wildcard for the Chile Open in Santiago. He also entered the main draw at the 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.[2]
After reaching the main draw of his home Masters, the Italian Open, having received a wildcard for the qualifying competition, he defeated Arthur Rinderknech for his first Masters main draw win.[9] Next, he reached the third round for the first time at a Masters level, defeating 23rd seed Tallon Griekspoor.[10]
Following lifting his second title at the 2024 Turin Challenger as a wildcard, with a win over top seed Lorenzo Musetti in the final, Passaro returned to the top 150 in the rankings climbing more than 100 positions back in the rankings on 20 May 2024. He became the first player since Robin Soderling in 2009 (Sunrise) to defeat five Top 100 players en route to a Challenger trophy.[11][12] A month later, he returned to the top 130 on 17 June 2024. After winning the Genoa Challenger, he returned to the top 110 at a new career-high of No. 106 on 9 September 2024.[2]
Passaro made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2025 Australian Open as a lucky loser after the withdrawal of his compatriot Fabio Fognini.[13] He recorded his first Grand Slam win and first top-20 win, following the retirement of tenth seed Grigor Dimitrov due to a hip injury, and moved into the top 100 in the singles rankings at world No. 90 on 27 January 2025.[14][15] He again defeated Dimitrov, his second top-20 win, at the 2025 Italian Open, to reach back-to-back third rounds at his home Masters.[16][17]
Performance timeline
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Singles
Current through the 2026 Chile Open.
| Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | W–L | |||
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| Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||
| Australian Open | A | Q2 | Q2 | 2R | 1–1 | ||||
| French Open | A | Q1 | A | 1R | 0–1 | ||||
| Wimbledon | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q1 | 0–0 | ||||
| US Open | Q2 | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | 0–1 | ||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–3 | |||
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||
| Indian Wells Open | A | Q2 | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Miami Open | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Madrid Open | A | Q1 | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Italian Open | 1R | 1R | 3R | 3R | 4–4 | ||||
| Canadian Open | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Cincinnati Open | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Shanghai Masters | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||||
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–4 | |||
ATP Challenger Tour finals
Singles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Apr 2022 | Sanremo Challenger, Italy | Challenger | Clay |  Holger Rune |
1–6, 6–2, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Jun 2022 | Forlì Open, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Lorenzo Musetti |
6–2, 3–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 0–3 | Jun 2022 | Aspria Tennis Cup, Italy | Challenger | Clay |  Federico Coria |
6–7(2–7), 4–6 |
| Win | 1–3 | Jul 2022 | Internazionali Città di Trieste, Italy | Challenger | Clay |  Zhang Zhizhen |
4–6, 6–3, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–4 | Sep 2022 | Città di Como Challenger, Italy | Challenger | Clay |  Cedrik-Marcel Stebe |
6–7(2–7), 4–6 |
| Loss | 1–5 | Jul 2023 | Internazionali Città di Trieste, Italy | Challenger | Clay |  Hugo Gaston |
3–6, 7–5, 2–6 |
| Win | 2–5 | May 2024 | Piemonte Open, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Lorenzo Musetti |
6–3, 7–5 |
| Win | 3–5 | Sep 2024 | AON Open, Italy | Challenger | Clay |  Jaume Munar |
7–5, 6–3 |
| Loss | 3–6 | Nov 2024 | Maia Challenger, Portugal | Challenger | Clay (i) |  Damir Džumhur |
3–6, 4–6 |
Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | May 2022 | Internazionali Città di Vicenza, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Matteo Gigante |
Francisco Comesaña Luciano Darderi |
3–6, 6–7(4–7) |
| Loss | 0–2 | Feb 2023 | Tenerife Challenger II, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Matteo Gigante |
 Christian Harrison Shintaro Mochizuki |
4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–3 | Sep 2023 | Layjet Open, Austria | Challenger | Clay | Marco Bortolotti |
Hendrik Jebens Constantin Frantzen |
1–6, 2–6 |
ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2019 | M15 Gubbio, Italy | WTT | Clay | Gonzalo Villanueva |
5–7, 2–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Apr 2021 | M15 Cairo, Egypt | WTT | Clay | Giacomo Dambrosi |
6–1, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–1 | Aug 2021 | M15 Xàtiva, Spain | WTT | Clay | Iñaki Montes de la Torre |
2–6, 6–1, 6–4 |
| Loss | 2–2 | Jan 2022 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | WTT | Hard | Mattia Bellucci |
4–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 3–2 | Feb 2022 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | WTT | Hard | Térence Atmane |
7–6(7–3), 6–2 |
Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Mar 2019 | M15 Murcia, Spain | WTT | Clay | Lorenzo Bocchi |
Eduard Esteve Lobato Álvaro López San Martín |
4–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Apr 2021 | M15 Cairo, Egypt | WTT | Clay | Daniele Capecchi |
 Luke Johnson Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi |
7–5, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–1 | Aug 2021 | M15 Xàtiva, Spain | WTT | Clay | Imanol López Morillo |
Alberto Barroso Campos Benjamín Winter López |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–1 | Oct 2021 | M15 Madrid, Spain | WTT | Clay | Carlos López Montagud |
Lucas Bouquet Stefan Micov |
6–0, 6–3 |
