Luciano Darderi hustles Eliot Spizzirri 6-0 7-6(3) 2-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in New York on Wednesday. Darderi will face off with Carlos Alcaraz in the 3rd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 30 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this tournament. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2024. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
The Italian added to his prize money $ 83,000 after winning this match. He has already won $ 237,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Darderi will add $ 163,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 400,000 in total.
Highlights Luciano Darderi vs. Eliot Spizzirri U.S. Open – New York
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 114 points vs. the American’s 100.
Darderi
Darderi served extremely well to win 79% of the points (50/63) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (24/48) on his second serve. The Italian blasted 12 aces and he committed 7 double faults. The Italian was pretty focused in converting 83% of the break points that he procured (5/6).
Spizzirri
On the other side, Spizzirri was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (3/6). However, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Darderi and Spizzirri is 1-0 for Luciano.
Draw and next match H2H: Luciano Darderi vs. Carlos Alcaraz – stats
Darderi will square off with Alcaraz in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Luciano Darderi and Carlos Alcaraz since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much of a fight in this set since Luciano conceded no games to Spizzirri before winning the set 6-0.
Darderi was on the money in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 3rd (2-0 30-40) and the 5th game (4-0 0-40). On the other side, Luciano didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 31 points. The Italian was the one to win the set after conquering 17 more points than the American (24-7). The Italian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (12-4). In addition, on the other side, Eliot conceded 12 points on serve (3-12
).Luciano won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 8th (3-5) game, Luciano broke back in the 9th (4-5) game before bringing the set at the breaker that he won 7-3.
Tiebreak
The Italian won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (3-1), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, Spizzirri won a minibreak in the 2nd (1-1) point.
Darderi won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Luciano converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 8th game (3-5 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Spizzirri converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 8th (4-3 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A).
They played 82 points. Darderi was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Spizzirri (44-38). The Italian conceded 12 points on serve (28-12). on the other side of the court, Eliot conceded 16 points on serve (26-16).
Eliot in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Luciano and without struggling too much he won 6-2 after breaking Luciano in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The American was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 15-40), the 5th (3-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). On the other side, Eliot didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 45 points. Spizzirri was the winner of the set after clinching 11 more points than the Italian (28-17). The American lost 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the net, Darderi conceded 12 points on serve (12-12).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Darderi conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Luciano was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 10th game (5-4 30-40). On the other side, Darderi didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 56 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Italian won just 2 points more than Eliot (29-27). Luciano dropped 9 points on serve (21-9). On the other side, Eliot conceded 8 points on serve (18-8).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-0 7-63 2-6 6-4)
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (3-6 6-0 6-2 6-4)
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- Taylor FritzFritz – Lloyd HarrisHarris (4-6 7-63 6-2 6-4)
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Marcos GironGiron (2-6 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4)
- Tomas MachacMachac – Joao FonsecaFonseca (7-64 6-2 6-3)
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-4 6-75 6-3 6-3)
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-1 6-0 6-3)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Jack DraperDraper (w/o)
- Ben SheltonShelton – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-4 6-2 6-4)
- Jerome KymKym – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (4-6 7-62 7-5 3-6 7-68)
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-4 3-6 2-6 6-2 6-3)
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Jakub MensikMensik (6-72 7-65 3-6 6-4 7-67)
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- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Holger RuneRune (7-65 2-6 6-3 4-6 7-5)
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