Francesco Passaro is an Italian player with a career high rank of no 89 (Feb 2025) but what is Passaro’s current racquet setup and gear?
Francesco Passaro’s tennis racquet
Francesco Passaro’s racquet is, like many other up-and-coming Italian players, the HEAD Radical, Sadly, we don’t know if this is the popular TGT 307 (first gen Graphene) mold or the later Graphene 360 mold (TGT 351), but it is a Radical for sure.
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More about Passaro
Francesco Passaro was born on January 7th, 2001, in Perugia, Italy. He started playing tennis at the age of six in his hometown Perugia.
As a junior he was ranked No. 31, he compiled a 64-33 singles record with three titles, transitioning successfully to the pro circuit and later turned pro in 2019.
Passaro made his ATP debut in 2021 at the Emilia-Romagna Open but his breakthrough came the year after, when he won his first ATP Challenger title in Trieste, defeating Zhang Zhizhen, and reached four other Challenger finals on Italian clay, including Sanremo (lost to Holger Rune). This got him to no 122 in the rankings and he earned a spot in the 2022 Next Gen ATP Finals as the first Italian alternate.
His first ATP Tour win also came in 2022, defeating Zhang again in Florence. In 2024, he captured his second Challenger title at the Turin Challenger as a wildcard, defeating Lorenzo Musetti 6-1, 6-4. His third Challenger title followed at the Genoa Challenger, pushing him to a then career-high 106 on September 9, 2024.
His biggest career win came at the 2025 Italian Open in Rome, where, ranked 101, he stunned number 14 ranked Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 6-3 as a wildcard, reaching the third round—his best Masters 1000 result. Passaro made his Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2025 Australian Open as a lucky loser, defeating Dimitrov again (7-5, 2-1, ret.) to reach the second round, his first Major win.
He has been training with coach Roberto Tarpani since he was 10 years old.
Stats and more info
- Plays right-handed with a two-handed backhand
- Nickname: El Face
- Favourite shot: drop shot
- Favourite surface: clay
- Prize money earned: $945,412
- Tennis idol: Roger Federer
Social Media
Follow Francesco Passaro on his official Instagram profile where he has around 12k followers.
