David Goffin surprises Luciano Darderi 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday. Goffin will engage against Arthur Rinderknech in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes. His best result in this competition was reaching the quarter in 2012 and 2014. Here you can see his history at this event.
David added to his prize money $ 4,800 after winning this match. He has already won $ 11,640 after this win. If he wins the next match, David will add $ 8,735 to his earnings to get in total $ 20,375 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Goffin scored 67 points vs. the Italian’s 48.
Goffin
David was pretty focused in converting 63% of the break points that he conquered (5/8).
Darderi
On the other side, Darderi wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Goffin and Darderi is 1-0 for David.
Draw and next match H2H: David Goffin vs. Arthur Rinderknech – stats
Goffin will compete against Rinderknech in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that David Goffin and Arthur Rinderknech fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Goffin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Goffin won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Marrakech back in April 2024.
Live score progression and stats
David in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Luciano and without too much hustling he won 6-2 after breaking the Italian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The Italian was eclipsed in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 1-2 to 6-2.
The Belgian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (4-2 30-40) and the 9th game (6-1 0-40). On the other side, Luciano was unable to convert any of his 4 break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 30-40) and the 6th game (2-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 60 points. Goffin conquered the set after winning 14 points more than Darderi (37-23). David dropped 10 points on serve (20-10). In addition, on the other side, Darderi conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).
Goffin came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Luciano Darderi in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, David succeeded in coming back to break Luciano in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).
Goffin converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 30-40), the 5th (2-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (3-3 40-A). On the other side, the Italian was perfect in converting all his break points in the 4th (1-2 30-40) and the 6th game (2-3 40-A).
They contested 55 points. David was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Luciano (30-25). The Belgian dropped 11 points on serve (17-11). On the losing side, the Italian conceded 13 points on serve (14-13).
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-4 6-4)
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Hugo GastonGaston (6-1 6-4)
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-2 6-2)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (4-6 7-5 6-3)
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-1 7-5)
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-62 6-2)
- Pavel KotovKotov – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 5-7 6-2)
- Learner TienTien – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-2 6-71 7-62)
- David GoffinGoffin – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-2 6-4)
- Juncheng ShangShang – Mariano NavoneNavone (7-5 6-3)
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Dominic StrickerStricker (6-4 6-1)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (7-63 6-4)
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-3 6-4)
- Borna CoricCoric – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-3 6-4)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Arthur CazauxCazaux (4-6 6-3 7-64)
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-65 2-6 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Borna CoricCoric – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Zizou BergsBergs – (0-1) – H2H details and stats