Tommy Paul and Luciano Darderi will square off in the 2nd round of the Erste Bank Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on Court 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tommy Paul who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tommy Paul is the pick to win this match.
Tommy Paul -> 1.35
Luciano Darderi -> 3.18
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Prediction and head to head Tommy Paul vs. Luciano Darderi
This will be the 4th time that Tommy Paul and Luciano Darderi clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Paul (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Darderi won 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Rome back in May 2026.
Highlights Luciano Darderi vs Tommy Paul – Rome 10-May-2026
Tommy Paul
45 - 20win/loss
14
8
WLWWLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 45-20 | 23-12 | 12-4 | 4-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 29-13 | 13-6 | 12-4 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-20 | 17-12 | 10-4 | 8-2 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 29-13 | 5-6 | 3-5 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-27 | 21-12 | 2-6 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 14, the American got to the 2nd round after beating Andrey Rublev 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Tommy had a good straight sets win against Rublev (7-5 6-2). During the match, Paul scored 78 points vs Rublev’s 59. Paul was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Paul bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Tommy Paul was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (28/39) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Paul broke Rublev 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Paul has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 65% of his matches (391-206). 4-2 on indoor hard courts in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Paul has an overall 63-33 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in Houston where he overcame Roman Andres Burruchaga in the final 6-1 3-6 7-5.
The American has a compiled 45-20 win-loss record in 2026, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Vienna
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Luciano Darderi
36 - 25win/loss
23
16
WLLLWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36-25 | 12-11 | 22-11 | 1-1 | 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. 23, Luciano got to the 2nd round after beating Matteo Arnaldi 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Arnaldi (7-5 6-2). During the match Darderi scored 71 points vs Arnaldi’s 53. Darderi was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Darderi recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Luciano Darderi was extremely efficient on serve to win 90% (26/29) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Arnaldi 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Santiago where he defeated Yannick Hanfmann in the final 7-6(6) 7-5.
Luciano has a compiled 36-25 win-loss record in 2026, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Vienna
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Paul | Darderi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 |
| Pts | 78-59 | 71-53 |
| Total Points | 137 | 124 |
| Winners | 28 | 26 |
| %Winners | 36% | 37% |
Both Paul and Darderi played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Paul and Darderi have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (20). The American scored 28 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Luciano blasted 26 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Paul | Darderi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
| 1st in | 39/63 | 29/58 |
| %1st in | 62% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 26/29 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 90% |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 17/29 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 59% |
Paul recorded 4 aces . Darderi fired 6 aces . Paul won 72% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Darderi won 90% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Paul | Darderi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 36% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Tommy broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The American surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Darderi broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Darderi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Paul | |||
| R1 Rublev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 78-59 | 78-59 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/63 | 39/63 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 28/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Darderi | |||
| R1 Arnaldi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 71-53 | 71-53 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/58 | 29/58 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 26/29 | 26/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/29 | 17/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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