Luciano Darderi and Stefanos Tsitsipas will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 7:30 pm on Grandstand. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefanos Tsitsipas who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefanos Tsitsipas is the pick to win this match.
Stefanos Tsitsipas -> 1.38
Luciano Darderi -> 3.02
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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
This will be the 2nd time that Luciano Darderi and Stefanos Tsitsipas face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tsitsipas won 6-4 3-6 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Halle back in 2025.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Luciano Darderi – Halle 16-June-2025
Luciano Darderi
35 - 23win/loss
21
16
LWLWWWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35-23 | 12-10 | 22-11 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 38-30 | 6-11 | 30-11 | 0-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-31 | 1-9 | 34-15 | 1-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-31 | 3-3 | 45-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-25 | 0-1 | 37-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, the Italian will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 6-3 7-6(5) to Jacquet in the 2nd round on the 2nd of October.
Darderi has a compiled 35-23 win-loss record in 2026, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title in Santiago where he defeated Yannick Hanfmann in the final 7-6(6) 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Luciano has an overall 253-169 record. He has a positive 42-40 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2025. See his history.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
35 - 21win/loss
43
3
WLWWWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35-21 | 19-12 | 12-6 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 22-18 | 12-10 | 7-5 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-22 | 13-11 | 22-6 | 8-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-24 | 19-9 | 17-5 | 11-6 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 61-24 | 18-8 | 17-4 | 18-9 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 43, Tsitsipas reached the 2nd round after defeating Kimmer Coppejans 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Stefanos had a good straight sets win against Coppejans (6-3 7-5). During the match Tsitsipas scored 64 points vs Coppejans’s 46. Stefanos was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Tsitsipas struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Stefanos Tsitsipas was very efficient on serve to win 82% (31/38) of his 1st serve and 79% (15/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Greek broke Coppejans twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Gstaad where he beat Raphael Collignon in the final 6-4 6-7(3) 6-3.
The Greek has a compiled 35-21 win-loss record in 2026, 19-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Alex MolcanMolcan (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur GeaGea – Ugo HumbertHumbert (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-1 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rei SakamotoSakamoto – Andrey RublevRublev (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ben SheltonShelton – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (10-3) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Yibing WuWu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Tomas MachacMachac (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Casper RuudRuud (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Nuno BorgesBorges (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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