Luciano Darderi and Edoardo Lavagno will face off in the 2^nd round of the Verona Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.44
Edoardo Lavagno -> 2.64

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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Edoardo Lavagno

This will be the 3^rd time that Luciano Darderi and Edoardo Lavagno play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Darderi and Lavagno (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Lavagno won 7-5 6-3 in the 1^st round in the Turin Challenger back in May 2023.

Luciano Darderi

Ranked no. 235, Darderi reached the 2^nd round after defeating Nick Hardt 6-4 6-0.

In the 1^st round, Darderi had a good straight sets win against Hardt (6-4 6-0). During the match, Darderi scored 58 points vs Hardt’s 31. Luciano was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about the service games, Darderi fired 6 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Luciano Darderi was very effective on serve to win 87% (20/23) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Hardt 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Darderi has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (113-74). 16-16 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Darderi has a compiled89-61 record in the last 5 years on clay.

Luciano’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Buenos Aires Challenger.

Darderi has a compiled 19-20 win-loss record in 2023, 16-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Verona Challenger

Luciano has never competed in this tournament before.

Edoardo Lavagno

Ranked no. 237, Lavagno got to the 2^nd round after defeating Camilo Ugo Carabelli 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Ugo Carabelli (6-3 6-1). During the match Lavagno scored 64 points vs Ugo Carabelli’s 42. Edoardo was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Lavagno scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Edoardo Lavagno was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Ugo Carabelli 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Antalya,M15 Antalya and the Perugia Challenger.

Edoardo has an aggregate 38-18 win-loss record in 2023, 38-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Darderi	Lavagno
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
Pts	58-31	64-42
Total Points	89	106
Winners	20	25
%Winners	34%	39%

Both Darderi and Lavagno played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Darderi and Lavagno have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Darderi scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 25 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Darderi	Lavagno
Aces	6	1
Avg per match	6	1
1st in	23/43	35/49
%1st in	53%	71%
1st pts	20/23	25/35
%1st pts	87%	71%
2nd pts	14/20	8/14
%2nd pts	70%	57%

Darderi recorded 6 aces . Lavagno struck 1 ace . Darderi won 87% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Lavagno won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Darderi	Lavagno
Won	4	5
Converted	4/11	5/7
% Converted	36%	71%
Conceded	2	3
Saved	2	2
% Saved	100%	67%
Times Broken	0	1

The Italian broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Darderi quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. Edoardo broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Darderi
	R1 Hardt	Total
Score	6-4 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	58-31	58-31
Total points	89	89
Winners	20	20
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	23/43	23/43
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	20/23	20/23
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	14/20	14/20
% 2nd pts	70%	70%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Lavagno
	R1 Ugo	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	64-42	64-42
Total points	106	106
Winners	25	25
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	35/49	35/49
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	25/35	25/35
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	8/14	8/14
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/7
Converted %	71%	71%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Verona Challenger

• Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Roman Andres BurruchagaAndres Burruchaga (7-5 4-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Federico GaioGaio – Sumit NagalNagal (6-7³ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Vit KoprivaKopriva – Valentin RoyerRoyer (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Max HoukesHoukes (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri – Carlos TabernerTaberner (1-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Mathias BourgueBourgue – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (5-7 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-7² 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Hugo GastonGaston (3-6 6-2 5-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Francisco ComesanaComesana – Marc PolmansPolmans (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (2-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Edoardo LavagnoLavagno – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Luciano DarderiDarderi – Nick HardtHardt (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Max HoukesHoukes (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-5 ret.) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• David GoffinGoffin – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Jiri VeselyVesely (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Benjamin HassanHassan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Edoardo LavagnoLavagno – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Vit KoprivaKopriva – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Federico GaioGaio (0-0) – H2H and prediction