US Open 2025 | Luciano Darderi’s profile, the next rival of Carlos Alcaraz: tennis from the cradle, between Argentina and Italy and Federer of inspiration

Luciano Darderi will try to give the bell before Carlos Alcaraz in Third Round of the US Open 2025 This Friday. At 23, the Italo-Argentine, number 34 of the ATP Right now, he is living A more than satisfactory season: Three of their four titles in the circuit has conquered them in recent months.

The whipped land He is the great ally of ‘Luli’ to date as a tennis player, proclaiming himself champion in Umag, Bastad and Marrakech lately. In 2024, he did the same in Córdoba, Argentina. The country in which he came to the world in Villa Gesell in 2002. And to which, despite having also nationalized Italian in his adolescence, Darderi has never stopped professing the maximum love.

Just a year older than Alcaraz, the next adversary of the Murcian was predestined to take the racket yes or yes. His father, Luciano Enrique Darderi, was also a player. As soon as his offspring began to take a taste to pass balls, at 4 years, he decided to train him. He still continues to guide his steps today, when the major words of professionalism are an absolute reality.

Juan Martín del Potro It was an inspiration to Darderi in its beginnings. However, their idols par excellence are Roger Federer And, beyond the tennis sphere, Leo Messi. Its Argentine origins also let themselves be felt strongly when discovering the favorite food of ‘Luli’: roast.

Nevertheless, He decided to bet on Italy, like many other athletes from his country before him, since 2016when the transalpine country federation ‘signed’ for its cause. Precisely, when more economic urgencies had the Darderi so that Luciano continue to develop his career.

Roland-Garros and Rome obsess their own to Darderihow could it be otherwise given their good performance in clay: he would love to reign someday in Paris or in the Italic forum. However, getting to the world top 10 and ending triumphing in any other Grand Slam would also satisfy him. At the moment, his roof in a ‘Major’ is the third round he has reached in New York (he eliminated Hijikata First and Spizzirri later) and, in addition, in the last edition of Wimbledon.

He has never played against Alcaraz. Who, even so, foresees an “interesting battle” against Darderi, despite the fact that the fast track is not done as well as brick dust. ‘Luli’, yes, it still has enough route ahead so that the right that likes to hit so much and all their game ends up successfully adapting to any type of surface.

“I remember telling me: ‘Now I’m going to train with Ferrero’, and a week later he beat [Federico] Gaio, who became the number 120 in the world. Then, at 16, he started playing even better, and since then he did not stop. He deserves it because he is a good boy. I like how it plays, it’s a lot of fun. Playing against him on this track will be incredible, “Darderi added.

In fact, he also confessed that Alcaraz had a detail with him, sending him a congratulation message when he premiered his ATP record last year. “The first title is special at the beginning of your career, and he wrote me that. So I appreciated that I would send me that message. I felt very good that I even thought about it, because it is not easy when I had already won so much and it was number one. We had lost contact a bit because I had risen a lot, very fast, and we played different tournaments. Is an incredible guy. It is really great, because it doesn’t matter if it is number one or number two in the world, it remains the same person, “Darderi said.