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.

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 surfaceHard (0–8)Clay (3–2)Grass (1–1)Carpet (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Australia F1, MelbourneFuturesClay Ben Ellwood3–6, 2–6Loss0–2Japan F5, OsakaFuturesHard Yong-Il Yoon4–6, 7–6(7–4), 4–6Loss0–3Great Britain F7, HampsteadFuturesHard (i) Frederik Fetterlein4–1, 4–5(6–8), 2–4,4–5Loss0–4Australia F3, BerriFuturesGrass Dejan Petrović3–6, 4–6Loss0–5Australia F2, BrisbaneFuturesHard Todd Larkham5–7, 6–4, 6–7(1–7)Win1–5Germany F3, MannheimFuturesClay Gorka Fraile4–6, 6–2, 6–3Win2–5Denmark F2, RungstedFuturesClay Roko Karanušić6–0, 6–1Win3–5Australia F4, MelbourneFuturesGrass Todd Larkham6–3, 7–6(9–7)Loss3–6Australia F5, BerriFuturesHard Alun Jones2–6, 2–6Loss3–7Tasmania, AustraliaChallengerHard Satoshi Iwabuchi2–6, 3–6Loss3–8Australia F1, BurnieFuturesHard Dudi Sela3–4 ret.Loss3–9Vancouver, CanadaChallengerHard Dudi Sela2–6, 3–6Loss3–10Italy F16, CesenaFuturesClay Victor Ioniță3–6, 6–4, 6–7(5–7)Loss3–11Ireland F2, DublinFuturesCarpet Mischa Zverev4–6, 6–7(3–7)Win4–11Spain F29, MóstolesFuturesClay Guillermo Alcaide3–6, 6–4, 6–4Loss4–12Lanzarote, SpainChallengerHard Jo-Wilfried Tsonga2–6, 2–6

Doubles: 16 (9–7) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (5–2)ITF Futures Tour (4–5)Titles by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (5–2)Grass (1–1)Carpet (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Perth, AustraliaChallengerHard Josh Tuckfield Paul Kilderry Grant Silcock4–6, 6–7(5–7)Loss0–2China F1, BeijingFuturesHard Josh Tuckfield Tasuku Iwami Takahiro Terachi2–6, 6–7(4–7)Win1–2Australia F2, MelbourneFuturesClay Josh Tuckfield Stephen Huss Lee Pearson7–6(7–4), 4–6, 6–1Win2–2Australia F3, BerriFuturesGrass Dejan Petrović Stephen Huss Lee Pearson6–3, 6–4Loss2–3Germany F2, EsslingenFuturesClay Ivo Karlović Franz Stauder Alexander Waske5–7, 6–1, 4–6Loss2–4Australia F2, BurnieFuturesHard Dejan Petrović Jaymon Crabb Joseph Sirianni6–2, 6–7(5–7), 1–6Win3–4Spain F12, SantanderFuturesClay Diego Hipperdinger David Ortiz-D'jian José Antonio Sánchez de Luna6–4, 6–3Win4–4Budapest, HungaryChallengerClay Sergio Roitman Jan Frode Andersen Oliver Gross6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–5 ret.Loss4–5Maia, PortugalChallengerClay Todd Perry Sebastián Prieto Sergio Roitman4–6, 4–6Loss4–6Australia F3, MelbourneFuturesGrass Nathan Healey Mark Hlawaty Sadik Kadir6–7(4–7), 4–6Win5–6Australia F3, BerriFuturesHard Nathan Healey Mark Hlawaty Sadik Kadir7–6(7–1), 6–7(4–7), [10-8]Win6–6Sassuolo, ItalyChallengerClay Stefano Galvani Enzo Artoni Martín Vassallo Argüello7–5, 2–6, 7–5Win7–6Grenoble, FranceChallengerHard (i) Harel Levy Rik De Voest Johan Landsberg5–7, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)Win8–6Ljubljana, SloveniaChallengerClay Lovro Zovko Andrew Derer Joseph Sirianni6–3, 6–3Win9–6Segovia, SpainChallengerHard Chris Guccione Johan Landsberg Filip Prpic6–3, 7–6(7–2)Loss9–7France F12, Bagnères-de-BigorreFuturesHard Sam Groth Thomas Oger Nicolas Tourte6–2, 3–6, 4–6

Performance timelines

Singles Tournament20002001200220032004200520062007S/RW–LGrand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenQ1Q1Q1Q1A1RAQ30 / 10–1French OpenAAAQ3AAAA0 / 00–0WimbledonAAA2RAQ1AA0 / 11–1US OpenAAAQ2Q1AAA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–01–10–00–10–00–00 / 21–2Career Statistics20002001200220032004200520062007CareerTournaments100222018Titles / Finals0 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 0Overall win–loss0–10–00–01–21–20–20–00–12-8Year-end ranking331410334144324336275422

Doubles Tournament2001200220032004200520062007S/RW–LGrand Slam tournamentsAustralian Open2R1RAA1R3R1R0 / 53–5French OpenAAAAAAA0 / 00–0WimbledonAAAAAAA0 / 00–0US OpenAAAAAAA0 / 00–0Win–loss1–10–10–00–00–12–10–10 / 53–5Career Statistics2001200220032004200520062007CareerTournaments21102118Titles / Finals0 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 0Overall win–loss2–20–10–10–00–22–10–14-8Year-end ranking232186187491322190840

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:

PlayerRecordWin %HardClayGrassLast matchNumber 4 ranked players Robin Söderling0–1 0–1––Lost (1–6, 3–6) at 2004 BangkokNumber 5 ranked players Rainer Schüttler0–10–1––Lost (4–6, 3–6) at 2004 BeijingNumber 7 ranked players Mardy Fish0–10–1––Lost (4–6, 6–7(4–7)) at 2003 StockholmNumber 9 ranked players Marc Rosset1–01–0––Won (7–6(7–2), 1–6, 7–6(7–4)) at 2004 BangkokTotal1–31–3 ()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

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