Boris Pašanski

Boris Pašanski (Serbian Cyrillic: Бopиc Пaшaнcки), often spelled Pashanski in English-language media, is a former ATP professional player and a Serbian tennis coach.

Boris Pašanski

Boris Pašanski at the Croatia Open in Umag (2008)
Country (sports)	Yugoslavia (2001–2003)  Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)  Serbia (2006–2014)
Residence	Valletta, Malta
Born	(1982-11-03) 3 November 1982 (age 42) Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	2001
Retired	2014
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Adrian Voinea, Marcos Górriz
Prize money	$837,645
Singles
Career record	28–51 (35.44%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 55 (27 February 2006)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2006)
French Open	1R (2006, 2007, 2008)
Wimbledon	1R (2006, 2008)
US Open	1R (2006)
Doubles
Career record	4–18 (18.18%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 190 (17 August 2009)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	1R (2006)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	4–3
Medal record Representing  Malta Games of the Small States of Europe 2005 Andorra Singles

Career highlights

Pašanski reached a career-high ranking of world No. 55 in singles on 27 February 2006, while in doubles, he reached a career-high of world No. 190 on 17 August 2009.^[1]

He was coached by former ATP pros Adrian Voinea and Marcos Górriz.^[2]

Pašanski reached one ATP doubles final at 2006 Copa Telmax in Buenos Aires, partnering up with Greek Vasilis Mazarakis, which they lost to the No. 1 seeds and the defending champions from Czech Republic, František Čermák and Leoš Friedl.^[3]

During his career, he won 12 singles titles and 3 doubles titles on the ITF circuit.^[4][5]

Representing Malta, the country of his residence, Pašanski won silver medal in singles at Games of the Small States of Europe held in Andorra, where he lost in the final to Benjamin Balleret of Monaco.^[6]

Pašanski was also a member of the Serbia Davis Cup team and has a career 4:3 Davis Cup singles record in five ties. As part of the team, he participated in reaching the finals of 2013 Davis Cup, which Serbia lost 3:2 in a tie against Czech Republic Davis Cup team.^[7]

Coaching career

After finishing his professional tennis career at the end of the 2014 season, Pašanski began his coaching career.^[8][9]

Being a GPTCA A-level coach, he worked as coach with the fellow Serbian players Viktor Troicki, Nikola Milojević, Peđa Krstin, Marko Miladinović and Hamad Medjedovic.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Private life

Nicknamed Paša (Pasha), he lived in Malta, but began playing tennis at a local club near his house in Belgrade. His father, Milan, was a professor at Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade and former chief adviser to the director of the Security Intelligence Agency.^[14]

In his youth, his father, Milan Pašanski was also a professional basketball player, while his grandfather, Ratibor Rajko Pašanski (b. 1914) played football professionally for Željezničar Sarajevo and was previously a member of the Yugoslavian national football team during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.^[15][16]

Pašanski stated that if he wasn’t a tennis player, he would be a guitar player...He is a big fan of Jim Morrison and Roger Waters.^[17][18][19]

Currently living in Belgrade, Boris Pašanski is married and has a child.^[13]

Playing style

Pašanski played his best games on clay courts, with a strong baseline game capable of creating decent pace on both wings, especially effective on clay, which was also his favorite surface.

In March 2024, sports magazine Sportazzo listed him among the top 10 greatest Serbian tennis players of all time.^[20]

Performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q1	A	2R	Q2	1R	Q1	A	A	A	Q1	0 / 2	1–2	33%
French Open	A	Q1	A	1R	1R	1R	Q1	A	A	A	Q1	0 / 3	0–3	0%
Wimbledon	Q1	Q1	A	1R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	Q3	0 / 2	0–2	0%
US Open	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–4	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 8	1–8	11%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Miami	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	1R	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Rome	A	A	A	1R	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Hamburg	A	A	A	1R	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–5	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 5	0–5	0%

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP Masters Series (0–0) ATP Championship Series (0–0) ATP International Series (0–1)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Finals by setting Outdoors (0–1) Indoors (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2006	Buenos Aires, Argentina	International Series	Clay	Vasilis Mazarakis	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	1–6, 2–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 25 (12–13)

Legend ATP Challenger (8–11) ITF Futures (4–2)

Finals by surface Hard (1–0) Clay (11–13) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2003	Hungary F1, Miskolc	Futures	Clay	Igor Andreev	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2	May 2003	Budapest, Hungary	Challenger	Clay	Johan Settergren	5–7, 4–6
Loss	0–3	Jun 2003	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Jiří Vaněk	3–6, 6–3, 1–6
Win	1–3	Jul 2004	Tampere, Finland	Challenger	Clay	Éric Prodon	6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Win	2–3	May 2005	Hungary F3, Hódmezővásárhely	Futures	Clay	Amir Hadad	7–6(7–2), 6–1
Loss	2–4	May 2005	Dresden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Vasilis Mazarakis	3–6, 2–6
Loss	2–5	Jun 2005	Cuenca, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Zack Fleishman	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–5	Jul 2005	Budaors, Hungary	Challenger	Clay	Vasilis Mazarakis	6–3, 6–2
Win	4–5	Jul 2005	Tampere, Finland	Challenger	Clay	Roko Karanušić	7–6(7–5), 4–6, 7–5
Loss	4–6	Aug 2005	Saransk, Russia	Challenger	Clay	Igor Kunitsyn	5–7, 4–6
Win	5–6	Aug 2005	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Vasilis Mazarakis	6–3, 6–2
Win	6–6	Sep 2005	Budapest, Hungary	Challenger	Clay	Vasilis Mazarakis	4–6, 6–3, 6–0
Loss	6–7	Nov 2005	Montevideo, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Juan Martín del Potro	3–6, 6–2, 6–7(3–7)
Win	7–7	Nov 2005	Aracaju, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Nicolás Lapentti	7–6(11–9), 7–5
Win	8–7	Jan 2006	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Paul Capdeville	6–2, 7–6(11–9)
Loss	8–8	Nov 2006	Aracaju, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Sergio Roitman	1–6, 3–6
Loss	8–9	Jul 2007	Turin, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	4–6, 2–6
Win	9–9	Sep 2007	Cherkassy, Ukraine	Challenger	Clay	Santiago Ventura	7–5, 7–6(9–7)
Loss	9–10	Mar 2008	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Mikhail Kukushkin	3–6, 4–6
Loss	9–11	Oct 2010	Napoli, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Fabio Fognini	4–6, 2–4 ret.
Win	10–11	Mar 2012	Italy F1, Trento	Futures	Hard	Stefano Galvani	1–6, 6–1, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	10–12	Jun 2012	Italy F14, Busto Arsizio	Futures	Clay	Petru-Alexandru Luncanu	4–6, 6–7(6–8)
Win	11–12	Aug 2012	Romania F7, Iași	Futures	Clay	Victor Crivoi	6–7(6–8), 6–3, 7–5
Loss	11–13	Oct 2012	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Gastão Elias	3–6, 5–7
Win	12–13	Jul 2014	France F14, Bourg-en-Bresse	Futures	Clay	Yannik Reuter	4–6, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 6 (3–3)

Legend ATP Challenger (3–1) ITF Futures (0–2)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (3–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2005	Hungary F3, Hódmezővásárhely	Futures	Clay	Viktor Troicki	Norbert Pakai Tibor Szathmary	3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Mar 2007	Rabat, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Peter Luczak	Yuri Schukin Orest Tereshchuk	7–6(10–8), 6–7(4–7), [3–10]
Win	1–2	Aug 2008	Manerbio, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Thomas Fabbiano	Massimo Dell'Acqua Alessio di Mauro	7–6(9–7), 7–5
Win	2–2	Nov 2008	Cali, Colombia	Challenger	Clay	Daniel Köllerer	Diego Junqueira Peter Luczak	6–7(4–7), 6–4, [10–4]
Loss	2–3	Jun 2012	Italy F14, Busto Arsizio	Futures	Clay	Antonio Comporto	Stefano Ianni Walter Trusendi	3–6, 3–6
Win	3–3	Sep 2012	Seville, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Nikola Ćirić	Stephan Fransen Jesse Huta Galung	5–7, 6–4, [10–6]