Luciano Darderi and Jakub Mensik will face off in the 2nd round of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 9:00 pm on GORAN IVANISEVIC STADION. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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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 -> 1.64
Jakub Mensik -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Jakub Mensik
There is no head to head record between Luciano Darderi and Jakub Mensik since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Luciano Darderi
36 - 18win/loss
33
33
WLWWLWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-18 | 0-2 | 34-13 | 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. 33 (career-high), Luciano reached the 2nd round after beating Duje Ajdukovic 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Ajdukovic (6-1 6-4). During the match, Darderi scored 62 points vs Ajdukovic’s 37. Luciano was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Darderi made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Luciano Darderi lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Darderi put 68% of his first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the 2nd serve. Darderi was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Ajdukovic 4 times.
Darderi has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (178-103). 34-13 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Darderi has an overall152-85 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the year was winning the title in Cordoba where he beat Facundo Bagnis in the final 6-1 6-4 and the Perugia Challenger where he beat Sumit Nagal in the final 6-1 6-2.
Darderi has a composed 36-18 win-loss record in 2024, 34-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Umag
Darderi has never competed in this tournament before.
Jakub Mensik
23 - 14win/loss
81
65
WLLLWWLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-14 | 17-7 | 3-2 | 1-0 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 10-6 | 17-11 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-16 | 18-4 | 17-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 81, the Czech got to the 2nd round after defeating Alexei Popyrin 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mensik had a good straight sets win against Popyrin (6-3 6-2). During the match Mensik scored 63 points vs Popyrin’s 51. The Czech was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Mensik scored 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Jakub Mensik was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Popyrin 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
The Czech’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Canberra Challenger and Doha.
The Czech has an overall 23-14 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Darderi | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 |
| Pts | 62-37 | 63-51 |
| Total Points | 99 | 114 |
| Winners | 23 | 27 |
| %Winners | 37% | 43% |
Both Darderi and Mensik played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Darderi and Mensik have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (17). Luciano scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Jakub bagged 27 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Darderi | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 33/59 |
| %1st in | 68% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 23/34 | 27/33 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 13/16 | 14/26 |
| %2nd pts | 81% | 54% |
Darderi struck 4 aces . Mensik fired 6 aces . Darderi won 68% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 81% of the points. On the other side, Mensik won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Darderi | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 38% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Luciano broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Luciano dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Mensik broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Czech was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Darderi | |||
| R1 Ajdukovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-37 | 62-37 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 34/50 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 23/34 | 23/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/16 | 13/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 81% | 81% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Mensik | |||
| R1 Popyrin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 63-51 | 63-51 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 33/59 | 33/59 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | 14/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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