Luciano Darderi and Shintaro Mochizuki will face off in the 2^nd round of the Almaty Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.68
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 2.18

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Prediction and head to head Luciano Darderi vs. Shintaro Mochizuki

There is no head to head record between Luciano Darderi and Shintaro Mochizuki since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Luciano Darderi

Ranked no. 26 (career-high), the Italian will start his run in Almaty after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 7-5 7-6(1) to Musetti in the 3^rd round on the 6^th of October.

The Italian has a composed 38-26 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the current 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 overcame Jesper De Jong in the final 6-4 3-6 6-3 and in Umag where he defeated 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.

Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 218-142 record. He has a negative 1-5 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in Almaty

Darderi has never competed in this tournament before.

Shintaro Mochizuki

Ranked no. 102 (career-high), Shintaro got to the 2^nd

round after beating Arthur Cazaux 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Shintaro had a good straight sets win against Cazaux (6-4 6-4). During the match Mochizuki scored 65 points vs Cazaux’s 55. Shintaro was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Mochizuki managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Shintaro Mochizuki was quite effective on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shintaro broke Cazaux twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Noumea Challenger where he overcame Moerani Bouzige in the final 6-1 6-3.

Mochizuki has an overall 41-26 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Almaty

• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Gabriel DialloDiallo (7-6³ 6-7³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Flavio CobolliCobolli – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• James DuckworthDuckworth – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (4-2) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar VukicVukic – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Adam WaltonWalton – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction