Paul Baccanello

Paul Baccanello (born 12 June 1979, in Adelaide) is a former Australian professional tennis player. He sustained various injuries during his career, which hampered his results.

Paul Baccanello

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Adelaide
Born	(1979-06-12) 12 June 1979 Adelaide
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	June 1998
Retired	July 2007
Plays	Right-handed
Coach	Brent Larkham
Prize money	$261,855
Singles
Career record	2–8
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 129 (3 November 2003)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2005)
French Open	Q3 (2003)
Wimbledon	2R (2003)
US Open	Q2 (2003)
Doubles
Career record	4–8
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 169 (9 June 2003)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2003)
Last updated on: 16 April 2021.

Career

Baccanello managed to qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon in 2003. He defeated former top 100 player Ivo Heuberger in the first round, before falling in a tight four set match to Croatian Ivo Karlović in the second round. As a result, he earned a career best prize-money of over $23,000 and rose 37 places in the ATP rankings. In arguably his best performance to date, he did manage to reach the semi-finals of the Challenger event at Segovia in 2003, where he played Rafael Nadal. In a close match, Baccanello took Rafael to a tie-break in the first set, before Nadal took control in the second set, winning 7–6, 6–4. His career high singles ranking of 129 was achieved on 3 November 2003, after other strong performances on the Challenger circuit.

Baccanello currently has a 2–8 ATP record and has earned a total of $261,855 prize money in his career.

Challenger and Futures Finals

Singles: 16 (4–12)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–3) ITF Futures Tour (4–9)

Titles by surface Hard (0–8) Clay (3–2) Grass (1–1) Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 1999	Australia F1, Melbourne	Futures	Clay	Ben Ellwood	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	May 2000	Japan F5, Osaka	Futures	Hard	Yong-Il Yoon	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 4–6
Loss	0–3	Aug 2000	Great Britain F7, Hampstead	Futures	Hard (i)	Frederik Fetterlein	4–1, 4–5(6–8), 2–4,4–5
Loss	0–4	Nov 2000	Australia F3, Berri	Futures	Grass	Dejan Petrović	3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–5	Apr 2001	Australia F2, Brisbane	Futures	Hard	Todd Larkham	5–7, 6–4, 6–7(1–7)
Win	1–5	May 2001	Germany F3, Mannheim	Futures	Clay	Gorka Fraile	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win	2–5	Aug 2002	Denmark F2, Rungsted	Futures	Clay	Roko Karanušić	6–0, 6–1
Win	3–5	Nov 2002	Australia F4, Melbourne	Futures	Grass	Todd Larkham	6–3, 7–6(9–7)
Loss	3–6	Nov 2002	Australia F5, Berri	Futures	Hard	Alun Jones	2–6, 2–6
Loss	3–7	Mar 2003	Tasmania, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	2–6, 3–6
Loss	3–8	Mar 2003	Australia F1, Burnie	Futures	Hard	Dudi Sela	3–4 ret.
Loss	3–9	Aug 2005	Vancouver, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Dudi Sela	2–6, 3–6
Loss	3–10	Jun 2006	Italy F16, Cesena	Futures	Clay	Victor Ioniță	3–6, 6–4, 6–7(5–7)
Loss	3–11	Jul 2006	Ireland F2, Dublin	Futures	Carpet	Mischa Zverev	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Win	4–11	Sep 2006	Spain F29, Móstoles	Futures	Clay	Guillermo Alcaide	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	4–12	May 2007	Lanzarote, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	2–6, 2–6

Doubles: 16 (9–7)

Legend (doubles) ATP Challenger Tour (5–2) ITF Futures Tour (4–5)

Titles by surface Hard (3–4) Clay (5–2) Grass (1–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 1999	Perth, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Josh Tuckfield	Paul Kilderry Grant Silcock	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Loss	0–2	Apr 2000	China F1, Beijing	Futures	Hard	Josh Tuckfield	Tasuku Iwami Takahiro Terachi	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	1–2	Nov 2000	Australia F2, Melbourne	Futures	Clay	Josh Tuckfield	Stephen Huss Lee Pearson	7–6(7–4), 4–6, 6–1
Win	2–2	Nov 2000	Australia F3, Berri	Futures	Grass	Dejan Petrović	Stephen Huss Lee Pearson	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–3	May 2001	Germany F2, Esslingen	Futures	Clay	Ivo Karlović	Franz Stauder Alexander Waske	5–7, 6–1, 4–6
Loss	2–4	Apr 2002	Australia F2, Burnie	Futures	Hard	Dejan Petrović	Jaymon Crabb Joseph Sirianni	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 1–6
Win	3–4	Sep 2002	Spain F12, Santander	Futures	Clay	Diego Hipperdinger	David Ortiz-D'jian José Antonio Sánchez de Luna	6–4, 6–3
Win	4–4	Sep 2002	Budapest, Hungary	Challenger	Clay	Sergio Roitman	Jan Frode Andersen Oliver Gross	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–5 ret.
Loss	4–5	Sep 2002	Maia, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Todd Perry	Sebastián Prieto Sergio Roitman	4–6, 4–6
Loss	4–6	Nov 2002	Australia F3, Melbourne	Futures	Grass	Nathan Healey	Mark Hlawaty Sadik Kadir	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Win	5–6	Nov 2002	Australia F3, Berri	Futures	Hard	Nathan Healey	Mark Hlawaty Sadik Kadir	7–6(7–1), 6–7(4–7), [10-8]
Win	6–6	Jun 2003	Sassuolo, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Stefano Galvani	Enzo Artoni Martín Vassallo Argüello	7–5, 2–6, 7–5
Win	7–6	Sep 2003	Grenoble, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Harel Levy	Rik De Voest Johan Landsberg	5–7, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Win	8–6	Jun 2005	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Lovro Zovko	Andrew Derer Joseph Sirianni	6–3, 6–3
Win	9–6	Aug 2006	Segovia, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Chris Guccione	Johan Landsberg Filip Prpic	6–3, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	9–7	Sep 2006	France F12, Bagnères-de-Bigorre	Futures	Hard	Sam Groth	Thomas Oger Nicolas Tourte	6–2, 3–6, 4–6

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	S/R	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q1	A	1R	A	Q3	0 / 1	0–1
French Open	A	A	A	Q3	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	A	A	A	2R	A	Q1	A	A	0 / 1	1–1
US Open	A	A	A	Q2	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 2	1–2
Career Statistics
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career
Tournaments	1	0	0	2	2	2	0	1	8
Titles / Finals	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0
Overall win–loss	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–1	2-8
Year-end ranking	331	410	334	144	324	336	275	422	20%

Doubles

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	S/R	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	2R	1R	A	A	1R	3R	1R	0 / 5	3–5
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Win–loss	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	0 / 5	3–5
Career Statistics
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career
Tournaments	2	1	1	0	2	1	1	8
Titles / Finals	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0
Overall win–loss	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	0–1	4-8
Year-end ranking	232	186	187	491	322	190	840	33%

Record against other players

Record against top 10 players

Paul Baccanello's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw and Davis Cup matches are considered:

Player	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last Match
Number 4 ranked players
Robin Söderling	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (1–6, 3–6) at 2004 Bangkok
Number 5 ranked players
Rainer Schüttler	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (4–6, 3–6) at 2004 Beijing
Number 7 ranked players
Mardy Fish	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (4–6, 6–7(4–7)) at 2003 Stockholm
Number 9 ranked players
Marc Rosset	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (7–6(7–2), 1–6, 7–6(7–4)) at 2004 Bangkok
Total	1–3	25%	1–3 (25%)	0–0 ( – )	0–0 ( – )

Record against players ranked No. 11–20

Active players are in boldface.

• Nicolas Escudé 0–1
• Feliciano López 0–1
• Ivo Karlović 0–1

External links

• Paul Baccanello at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Paul Baccanello at the International Tennis Federation
• Paul Baccanello at Tennis Australia (archive)