Luciano Darderi and Salvatore Caruso will play each other in the 1st round of the Valencia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 9. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luciano Darderi is the pick to win this match.
Luciano Darderi -> 1.48
Salvatore Caruso -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Salvatore Caruso
There is no head to head record between Luciano Darderi and Salvatore Caruso since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Luciano Darderi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-17 | 0-2 | 31-12 | 0-0 | 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. 178, the Italian will start his run in the Valencia Challenger after he played his last match in the Rio De Janeiro Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-3 to Muller in the quarter on the 14th of October.
The Italian has an overall 36-23 win-loss record in 2022, 36-22 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Darderi’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Perugia Challenger,the Iasi Challenger,the San Benedetto Challenger and the Campinas Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Darderi has an overall 93-52 record. He has a positive 72-43 record on clay.
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
Luciano has never competed in this tournament before.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-10 | 8-9 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 302, Salvatore got to the 1st round after defeating Alvaro Peiro Serrano 6-3 6-0 and Rudolf Molleker 7-5 7-66.
In the qualifications, Caruso had a good straight sets win against Molleker (7-5 7-66). During the match Caruso scored 91 points vs Molleker’s 82. Caruso was quite aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about serving, Caruso wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 81% of his first serves in, winning 71% (52/73) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (7/17) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Molleker twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.
Caruso’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.
Caruso has a composed 23-23 win-loss record in 2022, 10-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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