Luciano Darderi and Francesco Passaro will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Turin Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:00 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. 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.
Luciano Darderi -> 1.54
Francesco Passaro -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Francesco Passaro
This will be the 3rd time that Luciano Darderi and Francesco Passaro face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Passaro (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Passaro won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Trieste Challenger back in 2023.
Luciano Darderi
15 - 14win/loss
26
26
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-30 | 6-11 | 30-11 | 0-4 | 2-4 | 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. 46, the Italian will start his run in the Turin Challenger after he played his last match in Rome where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Draper in the 2nd round on the 9th of May.
Luciano has an aggregate 15-13 win-loss record in 2025, 14-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Marrakech where he defeated Tallon Griekspoor in the final 7-6(3) 7-6(4).
Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 195-129 record. He has a positive 166-95 record on clay.
Previously in the Turin Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.
Francesco Passaro
13 - 6win/loss
123
89
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-27 | 8-5 | 23-14 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-25 | 4-5 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-35 | 8-11 | 18-20 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-28 | 12-6 | 35-18 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-27 | 4-5 | 39-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 101, the Italian reached the 2nd round after defeating Federico Agustin Gomez 7-6(6) 6-7(6) 6-3.
In the 1st round, Passaro defeated Agustin Gomez (7-66 6-76 6-3). During the match Passaro scored 115 points vs Agustin Gomez’s 106. Passaro was very aggressive to blast 46 winners.
About the serving games, Passaro bagged 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Francesco Passaro was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (46/61) of his 1st serve and 57% (25/44) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Agustin Gomez 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
The Italian has a composed 12-6 win-loss record in 2025, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Turin Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Turin Challenger
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (7-66 6-76 6-3) – See score progression
- Robin Haase/Hendrik JebensHaase/Hendrik Jebens – Vlad Victor Cornea/Karol DrzewieckiVictor Cornea/Karol Drzewiecki (4-6 7-65 10-7) – See score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Giovanni FonioFonio (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Luca NardiNardi – Mariano NavoneNavone (6-1 5-7 7-62) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Federico CinaCina (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Jacopo VasamiVasami (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Ethan QuinnQuinn (2-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Luca NardiNardi – Mariano NavoneNavone (6-1 5-7 7-6(2)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Andrea CollariniCollarini (2-0) – H2H and prediction