Luciano Darderi and Sumit Nagal will face off in the 2nd round of the Naples Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CAMPO D’AVALOS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luciano Darderi who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luciano Darderi is the pick to win this match.
Luciano Darderi -> 1.28
Sumit Nagal -> 3.4
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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Sumit Nagal
This will be the 2nd time that Luciano Darderi and Sumit Nagal square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Darderi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Darderi won 6-1 6-2 in the final in the Perugia Challenger back in 2024.
Luciano Darderi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-8 | 1-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 61, the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Franco Agamenone 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Luciano had a good straight sets win against Agamenone (6-2 6-3). During the match, Darderi scored 67 points vs Agamenone’s 47. Luciano was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Darderi scored just 1 ace during the encounter and he committed only 5 double faults. Luciano Darderi lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Darderi put 43% of his first serves in, winning 85% (22/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Darderi broke Agamenone 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Darderi has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of his matches (183-124). 2-3 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Darderi has a compiled154-90 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
Darderi has a composed 3-8 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Naples Challenger
Luciano has never competed in this tournament before.
Sumit Nagal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-8 | 2-3 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-29 | 15-13 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 9-8 | 32-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-18 | 0-1 | 16-17 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-26 | 1-4 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 139, Nagal got to the 2nd round after defeating Duje Ajdukovic 7-6(6) 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Ajdukovic (7-66 6-4). During the match Nagal scored 76 points vs Ajdukovic’s 64. The Indian was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Nagal scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Sumit Nagal was extremely efficient on serve to win 80% (35/44) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nagal broke Ajdukovic twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Nagal has a composed 5-7 win-loss record in 2025, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Darderi | Nagal |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 23 |
| Pts | 67-47 | 76-64 |
| Total Points | 114 | 140 |
| Winners | 22 | 35 |
| %Winners | 33% | 46% |
Both Darderi and Nagal played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Darderi and Nagal have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Darderi played 6 games less than Nagal. Luciano scored 22 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Indian managed to score 35 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Darderi | Nagal |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 26/60 | 44/65 |
| %1st in | 43% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 35/44 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 62% |
Darderi struck 1 ace . Nagal also recorded 1 ace . Darderi won 85% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Nagal won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Darderi | Nagal |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 2/4 |
| % Converted | 44% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Darderi broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Luciano dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Nagal broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Indian conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Darderi | |||
| R1 Agamenone |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 67-47 | 67-47 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 26/60 | 26/60 | |
| % 1st in | 43% | 43% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 17/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Nagal | |||
| R1 Ajdukovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 76-64 | 76-64 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/65 | 44/65 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 35/44 | 35/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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