Luciano Darderi and Nicolae Frunza will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Iasi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Luciano Darderi who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luciano Darderi is the pick to win this match.
Luciano Darderi -> 1.27
Nicolae Frunza -> 3.62
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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Nicolae Frunza
There is no head to head record between Luciano Darderi and Nicolae Frunza since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Luciano Darderi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 215 (career-high), the Italian will start his run in the Iasi Challenger after he played his last match in the Todi Challenger where he lost 6-7(3) 6-3 6-4 to Passaro in the quarter on the 8th of July.
Luciano has a composed 24-14 win-loss record in 2022, 24-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Luciano’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Perugia Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Luciano has an overall 81-43 record. He has a positive 60-35 record on clay.
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Luciano has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolae Frunza
19 - 7win/loss
640
442
LWLWWLWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24-11 | 4-3 | 20-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-20 | 0-0 | 42-20 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 34-20 | 3-2 | 30-15 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 579, Nicolae got to the 1st round after beating Tudor Stefan Gheorghita 6-0 6-0 and Oleg Prihodko 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Frunza had a good straight sets win against Prihodko (6-1 6-0). During the match Frunza scored 58 points vs Prihodko’s 36. The Romanian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Frunza was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nicolae Frunza conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Frunza put 64% of his first serves in, winning 75% (21/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Nicolae broke Prihodko 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Frunza started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 68% of the points he played.
Nicolae’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya and M15 Belgrade.
The Romanian has a composed 19-6 win-loss record in 2022, 17-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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