It began with the preparation carried out for Alicantethe 2026 season of Francesco Passaro. New year, new coach for the tennis player from Perugia who separated from his historic coach in October, Roberto Tarpanito start a new collaboration with Stefano Pescosolidoborn in 1971, former Italian tennis player who reached position number 42 in the ATP rankings in 1992.
Passaro, who will turn 25 on January 7, grew up on the fields of Junior Perugia under the guidance of Tarpani himself who followed him for 17 years until taking him to number 89 of the world ranking, centered after reaching the second round of the Australian Openconquered by Lucky Loser and after beating Dimotrov in the first round.
The Perugian, the second tennis player to reach the first hundred in the history of the Umbrian racket behind Cancellottiwho reached 21 in the ATP in 1985, starts again from Australia together with Stefano Pescosolido who will be in his corner.
For the Umbrian, who left for Australia last Saturday, the qualifiers for the main draw of the 250 tournament in Brisbane (3-11 January) and then the qualifiers at cousin slam of the season a Melbourne (January 12-February 1). Passaro arrives at the appointments after training on the fast track of Alicante in Spain where he mainly competed with De Minaur, Gaubas e Nardi.
Passaro starts again from position number 137, after a year with excellent highs in the major circuit (third round a Romamain draws at Australian Openal Roland Garros and to Us Open) and many lows in the Challengers, but above all the Perugian had to stop too many times due to serious muscle injuries that did not allow him to defend and improve his best ranking. Now he will try in every way to return to the top 100, starting again from Australia.
