Lorenzo Musetti and Luciano Darderi will clash against each other in the 3^rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lorenzo Musetti who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Lorenzo Musetti is the pick to win this match.
Lorenzo Musetti -> 1.27
Luciano Darderi -> 3.74

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Prediction and head to head Lorenzo Musetti vs. Luciano Darderi

This will be the 3^rd time that Lorenzo Musetti and Luciano Darderi square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Musetti (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Musetti won 6-4 4-6 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in at the Wimbledon back in 2024.

Lorenzo Musetti

Ranked no. 9, the Italian got to the 3^rd round after beating Francisco Comesana 6-4 6-0.

In the 2^nd round, Lorenzo had a good straight sets win against Comesana (6-4 6-0). During the match, Musetti scored 56 points vs Comesana’s 35. Musetti was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Musetti scored just 1 ace in the match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Lorenzo Musetti was exceptionally effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Lorenzo broke Comesana 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Musetti has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (256-176). 17-10 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Musetti has a composed67-56 record in the last 8 years on hard.

Lorenzo’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Carlo and Chengdu.

The Italian has an aggregate 36-15 win-loss record in 2025, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Luciano Darderi

Ranked no. 29 (career-high), Luciano reached the 3^rd round after beating Bu Yunchaokete 6-4 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Luciano had a good straight sets win against Yunchaokete (6-4 6-4). During the match Darderi scored 60 points vs Yunchaokete’s 47. Darderi was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Darderi blasted 9 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Luciano Darderi was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Darderi broke Yunchaokete 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

His best result of the season was conquering the title in Marrakech where he defeated 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 and the Genova Challenger where he defeated Andrea Pellegrino in the final 6-1 6-3.

Luciano has an aggregate 38-25 win-loss record in 2025, 6-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

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

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Musetti	Darderi
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	20
Pts	56-35	60-47
Total Points	91	107
Winners	21	28
%Winners	38%	47%

Both Musetti and Darderi played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Musetti and Darderi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Musetti played 4 games less than Darderi. Musetti scored 21 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian made 28 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Musetti	Darderi
Aces	1	9
Avg per match	1	9
1st in	26/43	33/52
%1st in	60%	63%
1st pts	21/26	28/33
%1st pts	81%	85%
2nd pts	11/17	11/19
%2nd pts	65%	58%

Musetti recorded 1 ace . Darderi also fired 9 aces . Musetti won 81% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Darderi won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Musetti	Darderi
Won	4	3
Converted	4/9	3/5
% Converted	44%	60%
Conceded	0	3
Saved	0	2
% Saved	0%	67%
Times Broken	0	1

The Italian broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Luciano broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Musetti
	R2 Comesana	Total
Score	6-4 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	56-35	56-35
Total points	91	91
Winners	21	21
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	26/43	26/43
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	21/26	21/26
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	11/17	11/17
% 2nd pts	65%	65%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Darderi
	R2 Yunchaokete	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	60-47	60-47
Total points	107	107
Winners	28	28
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	33/52	33/52
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	28/33	28/33
% 1st pts	85%	85%
2nd pts	11/19	11/19
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

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