Francisco Cerundolo and Luciano Darderi will square off in the 2nd round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 3 sets.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.55
Luciano Darderi -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Luciano Darderi
There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Luciano Darderi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Francisco Cerundolo
7 - 10win/loss
30
19
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-31 | 5-10 | 21-13 | 8-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-26 | 10-10 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 7-8 | 25-10 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-24 | 3-2 | 39-21 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 36-11 | 5-0 | 31-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 23, Cerundolo will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-1 5-7 7-6(5) to Khachanov in the 3rd round on the 25th of March.
Cerundolo has a compiled 7-9 win-loss record in 2024, 4-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Argentine’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Rio de Janeiro.
Talking about his overall career, Francisco has an overall 285-145 record. He has a positive 238-101 record on clay.
Previously in Houston
The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.
Luciano Darderi
13 - 6win/loss
44
32
| 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. 72 (career-high), Darderi got to the 2nd round after beating Denis Kudla 3-6 7-63 6-2.
In the 1st round against Kudla, Luciano recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-63 6-2). During the match Darderi scored 95 points vs Kudla’s 83. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Darderi bagged 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Luciano Darderi was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (42/55) of his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Darderi broke Kudla 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
His best result of the season was conquering the title in Cordoba where he defeated Facundo Bagnis in the final 6-1 6-4.
The Italian has a compiled 12-6 win-loss record in 2024, 12-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Houston
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (7-63 6-72 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-5 6-74 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yibing WuWu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Benoit PairePaire (7-613 6-4) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Denis KudlaKudla (3-6 7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-64 7-62) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Max Purcell/Jordan ThompsonPurcell/Jordan Thompson – Evan King/John-Patrick SmithKing/John-Patrick Smith (6-4 6-75 10-4) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yibing WuWu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (7-6(3) 6-7(2) 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Jeff WolfWolf (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Max PurcellPurcell (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction