The blue player is increasingly comfortable on clay: he beat the Argentinian 6-3 3-6 6-3, now he awaits the winner of Tabilo-Barrios Vera. Dubai, here are the semi-finals: Medvedev-Humbert and Rublev-Bublik
Luciano Darderi is someone who will annoy many, if not all, on clay, and this is understood. The twenty-two-year-old Italian continues to win, with a season balance that reads 8-1 when he managed to enter the main draw. Yes, because until a few weeks ago, it wasn’t so obvious, on the contrary.
in Santiago, Chile
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In tennis, however, everything goes quickly and Darderi (and his opponents) is realizing this. In the ATP 250 in Santiago he beat, in the round of 16, a tough player like Juan Manuel Cerundolo (6-3 3-6 6-3 score), and now awaits the winner of the Chilean derby Tabilo-Barrios Vera. No Italian has ever reached the quarter-finals in Santiago, and Darderi’s ranking continues to improve: with this success comes another 7 positions gained this week in the ranking, whatever happens he will be the new number 73 in the world, 74 in the worst case scenario if will win the Munar tournament. In short, after the success in Cordoba, Darderi is confirming his state of grace, even physically, given the toughness of the match against Cerundolo, where he really didn’t give up anything.
in dubai
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On the other side of the world, in Dubai, and on hard courts, Daniil Medvedev seems to have recovered after the tough match against Lorenzo Sonego. In the ATP 500 of the Emirates the world no.4 and reigning champion flew to the semi-finals, after beating the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-2 6-2 in the quarterfinals, thus signing the fourth victory in as many direct matches. Medvedev (at seed number 52 on the circuit) will face the Frenchman Ugo Humbert, who saved three match points to beat the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, number 8 in the world, 3-6 7-6(8) 6-3. The other semi-final will be between Andrey Rublev, number two seed and in his fourth consecutive semi-final in Dubai, and the Kazakh Bublik: both took advantage of the withdrawals of their opponents, Korda and Lehecka respectively, when they were still ahead in the score.
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