Luca Nardi and Luciano Darderi will play each other in the 2nd round of the Perugia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.56
Luciano Darderi -> 2.43

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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Luciano Darderi

There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Luciano Darderi since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Luca Nardi

Luca Nardi

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
87
High
67
LWWLLLWLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 30-30 14-13 8-9 8-6 0-2 0-0
2024 32-27 14-14 8-5 9-4 1-4 0-0
2023 41-36 20-10 8-13 12-12 1-1 0-0
2022 33-20 5-2 11-10 17-8 0-0 0-0
2021 33-24 3-3 26-13 4-8 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 199, Luca reached the 2nd round after beating Gianluca Mager 7-65 6-72 6-4.

In the 1st round, Luca defeated Mager (7-65 6-72 6-4). During the match, Nardi scored 109 points vs Mager’s 104. Nardi was very aggressive to blast 63 winners.

Regarding the service games, Nardi scored 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Luca Nardi was very efficient on serve to win 78% (63/81) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Luca broke Mager twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Nardi has a winning win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 59% of his matches (66-45). 9-5 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Nardi has a compiled41-24 win-loss record in the last 5 years on clay.

The Italian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Forli 1 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.

Luca has an overall 19-8 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Perugia Challenger

Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.

Perugia Challenger
Nardi's Record

Luciano Darderi

Luciano Darderi

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
26
High
26
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
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
2021 48-19 20-6 27-12 0-0 1-1 0-0

Ranked no. 277, Luciano reached the 2nd round after beating Massimo Giunta 6-3 6-0, Andrey Chepelev 4-6 6-4 6-3 and Gastao Elias 6-3 6-2.

In the 1st round, Darderi had a good straight sets win against Elias (6-3 6-2). During the match Darderi scored 63 points vs Elias’s 45. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Darderi fired 2 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Luciano Darderi was very effective on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Darderi broke Elias 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).

The Italian has an overall 18-11 win-loss record in 2022, 18-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Perugia Challenger
Darderi's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

L.Nardi
L.Darderi
2h:17
2h:17
Time on court​
!
5h:09
5h:09
!
2h:17
2h:17
Last match​
1h:23
1h:23
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
36
36
Games Played​
61
61
3
3
Set played​​
7
7
109
109
Total points​
222
222
109
109
Avg point​
74
74
63
63
Winners
86
86
63
63
Avg Winners​
28.7
28.7
58%
58%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
12
12
Aces
15
15
!
12
12
Avg Aces
5
5
2
2
Double Faults
3
3
2
2
Avg Double Faults
1
1
63/81
63/81
1st won total​
86/119
86/119
!
78%
78%
1st won %
!
72%
72%
17/27
17/27
2nd won total​
37/63
37/63
!
63%
63%
2nd won %
59%
59%
-- Break Points --
2/6
2/6
BP won
13/33
13/33
2/6
2/6
Avg BP won
4.3/11
4.3/11
33%
33%
Won
39%
39%
6
6
Conceded
13
13
6
6
Avg Conceded
4.3
4.3
1
1
Broken
4
4
1
1
Avg Broken
1.3
1.3
5
5
Saved
9
9

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Nardi Darderi
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 3 7
Tot Games 36 61
Pts 109-104 222-167
Total Points 213 389
Winners 63 86
%Winners 58% 39%

Nardi played 1 match while Darderi competed in 3 matches. Darderi started his run from the qualifications while Nardi had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Luca Nardi lost 1 set, while Luciano Darderi surrendered 1 set. Nardi has played 4 set(s) less than Darderi (3 vs 7). Therefore, Nardi played 25 games less than Darderi. Nardi scored 63 winners (58% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian made 86 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Nardi Darderi
Aces 12 15
Avg per match 12 5
1st in 81/108 119/182
%1st in 75% 65%
1st pts 63/81 86/119
%1st pts 78% 72%
2nd pts 17/27 37/63
%2nd pts 63% 59%

Nardi made 12 aces . Darderi bagged 15 aces (5 per match). Nardi won 78% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Darderi won 72% 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 Nardi Darderi
Won 2 13
Converted 2/6 13/33
% Converted 33% 39%
Conceded 6 13
Saved 5 9
% Saved 83% 69%
Times Broken 1 4

Luca broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Nardi surrendered his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Luciano broke his opponents 13 times with a 39% conversion rate. Darderi conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.

Nardi
R1
Mager
Total
Score 7-65 6-72 6-4
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 36 36
pts 109-104 109-104
Total points 213 213
Winners 63 63
%Winners 58% 58%
SERVE
Aces 12 12
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 81/108 81/108
% 1st in 75% 75%
1st pts 63/81 63/81
% 1st pts 78% 78%
2nd pts 17/27 17/27
% 2nd pts 63% 63%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/6 2/6
Converted % 33% 33%
Conceded 6 6
Saved 5/6 5
Saved % 83% 83%
Times Broken 1 1
Darderi
Q1
Giunta
Q3
Chepelev
R1
Elias
Total
Score 6-3 6-0 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-2
Tot Set 2 3 2 7
Tot Games 15 29 17 61
pts 59-29 100-93 63-45 222-167
Total points 88 193 108 389
Winners 20 38 28 86
%Winners 34% 38% 44% 39%
SERVE
Aces 5 8 2 15
Double Faults 1 2 0 3
1st in 22/32 60/95 37/55 119/182
% 1st in 69% 63% 67% 65%
1st pts 20/22 38/60 28/37 86/119
% 1st pts 91% 63% 76% 72%
2nd pts 5/10 21/35 11/18 37/63
% 2nd pts 50% 60% 61% 59%
Breaks
Won 6 4 3 13
Converted 6/9 4/13 3/11 13/33
Converted % 67% 31% 27% 39%
Conceded 2 10 1 13
Saved 1/2 7/10 1/1 9
Saved % 50% 70% 100% 220%
Times Broken 1 3 0 4

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