Luciano Darderi and Dmitry Popko will play each other in the 2nd round of the Genova Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 8:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, 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 2 sets.
Luciano Darderi -> 1.129
Dmitry Popko -> 5.3
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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Dmitry Popko
This will be the 2nd time that Luciano Darderi and Dmitry Popko clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Darderi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Darderi won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Oeiras 1 Challenger back in 2022.
Luciano Darderi
32 - 23win/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. 34, Luciano got to the 2nd round after beating Federico Arnaboldi 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Darderi had a good straight sets win against Arnaboldi (6-2 6-4). During the match, Darderi scored 82 points vs Arnaboldi’s 69. Darderi was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Regarding the service games, Darderi blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Luciano Darderi was very effective on serve to win 71% (17/24) of his 1st serve and 58% (23/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Arnaboldi 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).
Darderi has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of his matches (212-139). 26-11 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Darderi has an overall178-98 record in the last 7 years on clay.
His best result of the year was winning the title in Marrakech where he beat Tallon Griekspoor in the final 7-6(3) 7-6(4) and in Bastad where he beat 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.
Darderi has an overall 32-23 win-loss record in 2025, 26-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Luciano has never competed in this tournament before.
Dmitry Popko
20 - 23win/loss
227
155
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-30 | 15-11 | 8-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 64-33 | 7-2 | 57-28 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-20 | 1-1 | 38-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-30 | 11-11 | 7-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-34 | 0-4 | 27-19 | 7-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 237, Dmitry got to the 2nd
round after defeating Marco Cecchinato 6-4 6-2.In the 1st round, Dmitry had a good straight sets win against Cecchinato (6-4 6-2). During the match Popko scored 69 points vs Cecchinato’s 47. The Kazakhstani was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Popko scored 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dmitry Popko was quite effective on serve to win 84% (31/37) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Popko broke Cecchinato 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Morelia Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 1-6 6-2 6-4.
Dmitry has a compiled 20-23 win-loss record in 2025, 8-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Darderi | Popko |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 |
| Pts | 82-69 | 69-47 |
| Total Points | 151 | 116 |
| Winners | 17 | 31 |
| %Winners | 21% | 45% |
Both Darderi and Popko played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Darderi and Popko have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (18). Luciano scored 17 winners (21% of the total points). On the other side, Dmitry struck 31 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Darderi | Popko |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 24/64 | 37/50 |
| %1st in | 38% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 17/24 | 31/37 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 23/40 | 8/13 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 62% |
Darderi struck 4 aces . Popko fired 2 aces . Darderi won 71% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Popko won 84% 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 | Popko |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/15 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 27% | 33% |
| Conceded | 6 | 3 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 83% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Darderi broke his opponent 4 times with a 27% conversion rate. Luciano surrendered his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Dmitry broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Dmitry was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Darderi | |||
| R1 Arnaboldi | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 82-69 | 82-69 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 21% | 21% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/64 | 24/64 | |
| % 1st in | 38% | 38% | |
| 1st pts | 17/24 | 17/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/40 | 23/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/15 | 4/15 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Popko | |||
| R1 Cecchinato | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 69-47 | 69-47 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/50 | 37/50 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 31/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tom GentzschGentzsch – Francesco FortiForti (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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