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Paolo Canè (born 9 April 1965; ) is a former
tennis player Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ...
from Italy. Canè turned professional in 1983. During his career, he won three top-level singles titles (
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in 1986, Båstad in 1989, and Bologna in 1991) and achieved much success at the Olympics, reaching the semi-finals in
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(when it was a demonstration event) and the quarter-finals in
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. He also won three tour doubles titles (Bologna in 1985, and Bologna and Palermo in 1986). Canè's career-high rankings were World No. 26 in singles (in 1989) and World No. 43 in doubles (in 1985). He retired from the professional
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in 1995.


ATP career titles


Singles (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)


Doubles (3 titles, 5 runner-ups)


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cane, Paolo 1965 births Hopman Cup competitors Italian male tennis players Living people Olympic tennis players of Italy Sportspeople from Bologna Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century Italian people