Raúl Brancaccio

Italian tennis player

Raúl Brancaccio
Singles
Brancaccio at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Torre del Greco, Italy
Born	(1997-05-04) 4 May 1997 (age 26) Torre del Greco, Italy
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Ciro Figaro
Prize money	$409,102
Career record	0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 121 (13 February 2023)
Current ranking	No. 259 (15 January 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2023)
French Open	Q1 (2023)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2023)
US Open	Q3 (2022)
Doubles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 252 (26 September 2022)
Current ranking	No. 928 (15 January 2024)
Last updated on: 20 January 2024.

Raúl Brancaccio (born 4 May 1997) is an Italian tennis player.

Brancaccio has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 121 achieved on 13 February 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 252 achieved on 26 September 2022.^[1]

Career

2021: ATP debut

Brancaccio made his ATP main draw debut at the 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open after qualifying for the singles main draw.

2023: Top 125 debut

He won his second Challenger title at the 2023 Open Nouvelle-Calédonie in Nouméa, New Caledonia defeating Laurent Lokoli.^[2] He reached his second Challenger final at the 2023 Tenerife Challenger II for the season where he lost to Matteo Arnaldi. As a result, he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 121 on 13 February 2023.

Controversy

On March 25th 2024, Raul Brancaccio played against Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round of the Napoli Challenger. After failing to convert 7 match points, he went on to lose the match. Despite being born 20 minutes away from Napoli in Torre del Greco, the crowd was actively hostile towards him. After the match, he took to Instagram to voice his displeasure in a strongly worded statement, blaming sports bettors for the chaos during the match.^[3]

Personal life

Brancaccio has a Spanish mother and an Italian father. His sister Nuria Brancaccio is also a tennis player.^[4]

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 12 (8–4)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (2–1)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (6–3)

Titles by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (7–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 2016	Tunisia F36, Hammamet	Futures	Clay	Attila Balázs	4–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Dec 2017	Tunisia F37, Hammamet	Futures	Clay	Gonçalo Oliveira	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–2	May 2018	Italy F11, Napoli	Futures	Clay	Pietro Rondoni	6–2, 6–7^(3–7), 6–0
Loss	1–3	Sep 2018	Spain F25, San Sebastián	Futures	Clay	Javier Barranco Cosano	1–6, 1–6
Win	2–3	Sep 2018	Spain F28, Madrid	Futures	Clay	Gonzalo Lama	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
Win	3–3	Oct 2018	Italy F32, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Stefano Baldoni	6–2, 6–3
Win	4–3	Oct 2018	Italy F33, Santa Margherita Di Pula	Futures	Clay	Dimitar Kuzmanov	6–4, 6–4
Win	5–3	May 2019	M25 Vic, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Facundo Diaz Acosta	5–7, 7–5, 6–3
Win	6–3	Feb 2021	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Oleksii Krutykh	6–4, 6–4
Win	7–3	Jul 2022	San Benedetto, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Andrea Vavassori	6–1, 6–1
Win	8–3	Jan 2023	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Challenger	Hard	Laurent Lokoli	4–6, 7–5, 6–2
Loss	8–4	Feb 2023	Tenerife, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Matteo Arnaldi	1–6, 2–6

References

^ "Raul Brancaccio | Overview". ATP Tour. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
^ "Cerundolo Captures First Challenger Crown of 2023 | ATP Tour | Tennis".
^ "Pierre-Hugues Herbert saves 7 match points with out of this world shots". Tennis Clubhouse. 2024-03-28. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
^ "I promossi delle pre-quali: sei ritratti azzurri". sport.tiscali.it. 6 May 2021.