Paul Baccanello
Paul Baccanello 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)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | |||||||||||||||
| Loss | 0–1 | Australia F1, Melbourne | Futures | Clay |  dts|May 2000Doubles: 16 (9–7)
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