Luciano Darderi and Alexander Blockx will face off in the 1^st round of the National Bank Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

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 -> 1.83
Alexander Blockx -> 1.98

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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Alexander Blockx

There is no head to head record between Luciano Darderi and Alexander Blockx since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Luciano Darderi

Ranked no. 46, Luciano will start his run in Montreal after he won the title in Umag after beating 6-3 6-3 Taberner in the final.

Darderi has an aggregate 28-20 win-loss record in 2025, 1-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was conquering the title in Marrakech where he overcame Tallon Griekspoor in the final 7-6(3) 7-6(4) and in Bastad where he defeated Jesper De Jong in the final 6-4 3-6 6-3 and in Umag where he beat Carlos Taberner in the final 6-3 6-3.

Luciano won his last 9 matches.

Talking about his overall career, Darderi has an overall 208-136 record. He has a positive 25-24 record on hard.

Previously in Montreal

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

Alexander Blockx

Ranked no. 122 (career-high), Alexander reached the 1^st round after beating Duje Ajdukovic 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Ajdukovic (6-4 6-4). During the match Blockx scored 69 points vs Ajdukovic’s 62. The Belgian was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Blockx couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alexander Blockx lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Blockx put 68% of his first serves in, winning 64% (25/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the 2nd serve. Alexander broke Ajdukovic 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he defeated Liam Draxl in the final 7-5 6-1.

The Belgian has an aggregate 28-19 win-loss record in 2025, 11-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Montreal

Blockx has never competed in this tournament before.

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• Adam WaltonWalton – Benjamin BonziBonzi (4-6 6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (4-6 6-2 7-6⁹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Emilio NavaNava – Zizou BergsBergs (6-1 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Sebastian OfnerOfner (7-6⁶ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
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