Federico Gaio

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Federico Gaio (; born 5 March 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF circuit. He has won four Challenger titles and nine ITF futures singles titles. He reached his career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 124 in February 2020. He has won three Challenger and four ITF futures doubles titles in doubles. He reached a career high in doubles of World No. 163 on 2 November 2020 after his maiden ATP doubles final at the 2020 Rio Open partnering Salvatore Caruso. In July 2025 he began coaching top 10 player Jasmine Paolini.

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Professional career

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2015: ATP debut He played his first ATP main draw match in the 2015 Rome Open after gaining entry as a wildcard.

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2018: Grand Slam singles debut He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2018 US Open as a qualifier where he lost to tenth seed David Goffin.

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2020: Maiden doubles ATP final He reached his first doubles final at the ATP 500 2020 Rio Open partnering Salvatore Caruso where they lost to Horacio Zeballos/Marcel Granollers

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2023: First Challenger final since 2021 At the 2023 Piemonte Open Challenger 175 he reached his first final since July 2021 as a qualifier with a win over top seed and world No. 40 Sebastian Baez. As a result, he moved more than 100 positions up into the top 250 on 22 May 2023.

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ATP Tour career finals

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Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)

ATP Finals (0–0)

ATP Masters 1000 (0–0)

ATP 500 (0–1)

ATP 250 (0–0)

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Clay (0–1)

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Outdoor (0–1)

Indoor (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Rio Open, Brazil	ATP 500	Clay	Salvatore Caruso	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	4–6, 7–5, 7–10

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

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Singles: 28 (13 titles, 15 runner-ups)

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ATP Challenger Tour (4–5)

ITF Futures/WTT (9–10)

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Hard (5–4)

Clay (8–11)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Win	1–0		Kazakhstan F2, Taraz	Futures	Hard	Takuto Niki	0–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win	2–0		Kazakhstan F3, Almaty	Futures	Hard	Ilia Starkov	6–0, 7–5
Loss	2–1		Israel F6, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Amir Weintraub	4–6, 2–6
Win	3–1		Argentina F18, Bell Ville	Futures	Clay	Renzo Olivo	7–5, 7–5
Loss	3–2		Austria F2, Seefeld	Futures	Clay	Patrick Ofner	5–7, 6–3, 4–6
Win	4–2		Turkey F36, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Richard Gabb	3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–1
Loss	4–3		Greece F17, Heraklion	Futures	Hard	Dennis Novak	4–6, 2–6
Loss	4–4		France F9, Grasse	Futures	Clay	Jonathan Eysseric	3–6, 4–6
Loss	4–5		Italy F23, Modena	Futures	Clay	Daniele Giorgini	3–6, 4–6
Loss	4–6		Cortina, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Filip Krajinović	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 5–7
Win	5–6		Turkey F36, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Hiroyasu Ehara	1–6, 6–0, 6–4
Loss	5–7		Croatia F7, Vrsar	Futures	Clay	Riccardo Bellotti	4–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win	6–7		Italy F5, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Stefano Napolitano	6–2, 6–4
Loss	6–8		Italy F10, Bergamo	Futures	Clay	Matteo Trevisan	4–6, 4–6
Win	7–8		Italy F22, Appiano	Futures	Clay	Francisco Bahamonde	6–4, 6–3
Win	8–8		San Benedetto, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Constant Lestienne	6–2, 1–6, 6–3
Win	9–8		Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Thomaz Bellucci	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win	10–8		Italy F29, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Jay Clarke	6–2, 7–5
Win	11–8		Italy F35, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Lorenzo Sonego	7–6(7–4), 2–6, 6–0
Loss	11–9		Padova, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Sergio Gutiérrez Ferrol	2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Loss	11–10		Parma, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–7(10–12), 7–5, 6–7(6–8)
Win	12–10		Manerbio, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Paolo Lorenzi	6–3, 6–1
Win	13–10		Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Robin Haase	6–1, 4–6, 4–2 ret.
Loss	13–11		Todi, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Mario Vilella Martínez	6–7(3–7), 6–1, 3–6
Loss	13–12		M25 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Francesco Forti	3–6, 4–6
Loss	13–13		M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Henrique Rocha	3–6, 1–6
Loss	13–14		Turin, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Dominik Köpfer	7–6(7–5), 2–6, 0–6
Loss	13–15		M25 Grasse, France	WTT	Clay	Maxime Chazal	6–4, 4–6, 2–6

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Doubles: 18 (7 titles, 11 runner-ups)

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ATP Challenger Tour (3–6)

ITF Futures/WTT (4–5)

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Hard (3–6)

Clay (4–5)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Italy F34, Quartu Sant'Elena	Futures	Hard	Alessandro Giannessi	Fabio Colangelo Matteo Volante	6–7(7–9), 1–6
Win	1–1		Italy F29, Alghero	Futures	Hard	Alessandro Giannessi	Vasek Pospisil Marcus Willis	6–2, 7–5
Loss	1–2		Italy F1, Trento	Futures	Hard (i)	Alessandro Giannessi	Nikolai Fidirko Nikolaus Moser	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–3		Recanati, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Frederik Nielsen Ken Skupski	4–6, 5–7
Loss	1–4		Italy F12, Parma	Futures	Clay	Matteo Volante	Edoardo Eremin Claudio Grassi	5–7, 2–6
Win	2–4		Turkey F36, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Laurynas Grigelis	Dekel Bar Richard Gabb	1–6, 6–3, 10–8
Win	3–4		Turkey F37, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Laurynas Grigelis	Alexander Krasnorutskiy Anton Manegin	6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Loss	3–5		Croatia F6, Rovinj	Futures	Clay	Matteo Trevisan	Dino Marcan Antonio Šančić	3–6, 5–7
Loss	3–6		Vicenza, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Salvatore Caruso	Facundo Bagnis Guido Pella	2–6, 4–6
Loss	3–7		Padova, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Alessandro Giannessi	Mikhail Elgin Andrey Rublev	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	3–8		Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Alessandro Giannessi	Tristan Lamasine Fabrice Martin	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	4–8		San Benedetto, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Stefano Napolitano	Facundo Argüello Sergio Galdós	6–3, 6–4
Win	5–8		Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Stefano Napolitano	Marin Draganja Tomislav Draganja	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 10–3
Win	6–8		Italy F30, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Andrea Pellegrino	Matthias Haim Jakob Sude	7–6(7–1), 6–1
Win	7–8		Caltanissetta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Andrea Pellegrino	Blaž Rola Jiří Veselý	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	7–9		Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Enrique López Pérez	Sanjar Fayziev Jurabek Karimov	2–6, 7–6(7–3), 9–11
Loss	7–10	Oct 2021	Brest Challenger, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Salvatore Caruso	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	6-4, 3–6, 3-10
Loss	7–11		M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Jacopo Berrettini	Simon Beaupain Juan Bautista Otegui	2–6, 6–4, 8–10

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