Luciano Darderi prevails over Yoshihito Nishioka 7-6(9) 6-3 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Thursday. Darderi will have to play Jenson Brooksby in the 2nd round. The battle lasted exactly 2 hours. This will be his best result in this competition. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Italian added to his prize money $ 15,195 after winning this match. He has already won $ 32,560 after this win. If he wins the next match, Darderi will add $ 28,440 to his earnings to get in total $ 61,000 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 83 points vs. Nishioka’s 70.
Darderi
The Italian served pretty well to win 76% of the points (38/50) behind his first serve, and he won 61% points (14/23) on his second serve. Luciano blasted 10 aces without committing any double fault. Darderi won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.
Nishioka
On the other side, Yoshihito was struggling when converting his break points (only 17% – 1/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Darderi and Nishioka is 1-0 for Luciano.
Draw and next match H2H: Luciano Darderi vs. Jenson Brooksby – stats
Darderi will play Brooksby in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Luciano Darderi and Jenson Brooksby since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
The Italian won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, The Italian broke back in the 4th (2-2) game to conquer the set 7-6.
Darderi converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 15-40) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40 and 30-40). Also, on the other side, the Japanese converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 7th game (3-3 30-40).
They played 103 points. It’s worth to point out that, Darderi won this set even if he scored less points 3 than Yoshihito (50-53
). Darderi dropped 16 points on serve (28-16). In addition, on the other side, Nishioka conceded 22 points on serve (37-22).Luciano won the set after he broke Nishioka in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Yoshihito was eclipsed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-3 to 6-3.
The Italian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4
break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (3-3 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40). On the other side, Luciano didn’t concede a single break point during this set.They contested 50 points. The Italian was the winner of the set after clinching 14 points more than Nishioka (32-18). The Italian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). In addition, on the other side, Nishioka conceded 16 points on serve (15-16).
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