Luca Nardi

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Luca Nardi
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Nardi at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Born (2003-08-06) 6 August 2003 (age 20)
Pesaro, Italy
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachFrancesco Sani
Gabriele Costantini
Stefano Pescosolido
Prize money$825,260
Singles
Career record5–15 (25.0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 75 (1 April 2024)
Current rankingNo. 84 (22 April 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2024)
French Open Q3 (2022)
Wimbledon Q2 (2023)
US Open Q1 (2022, 2023)
Doubles
Career record1–2 (33.3% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 299 (10 April 2023)
Current rankingNo. 1401 (1 April 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open  Junior2R (2021)
Last updated on: 8 March 2024.

Luca Nardi (born 6 August 2003) is an Italian professional tennis player.

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Nardi has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 75 achieved on 1 April 2024. [1] He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 299, attained on 10 April 2023.

Nardi's biggest breakthrough came when he defeated world No.1 Novak Djokovic at Indian Wells in 2024.

Biography

Son of Raffaella and Neapolitan notary Dario, he began playing tennis at seven at the Tennis Club Baratoff in Pesaro, encouraged by his parents and especially his older brother, Niccolò, who later left sports for design studies. He attended a scientific high school in Pesaro for two years before moving in September 2019 to the Federal Technical Center in Tirrenia, where he was coached by Claudio Galoppini, balancing sports with studies. He enjoys soccer and padel, supports Napoli thanks to his father, and idolizes tennis players Roger Federer and Novak Đoković.

Career

2020–2021: ATP debut

Nardi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2020 European Open in singles, where he lost to Marcos Giron in three sets, and in doubles partnering Zane Khan. [2]

He reached career-high rankings of World No. 356 in singles and No. 544 in doubles on 13 December 2021 after reaching the semifinals in singles and quarterfinals in doubles respectively as a wildcard at the 2021 Città di Forlì III Challenger.

2022: Four Challenger titles, Masters & Top 150 debuts & first ATP win

In the first week of the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour, Nardi won his first Challenger title at the 2022 Città di Forlì Challenger, defeating Mukund Sasikumar in the final. [3] [4] As a result, he reached the top 300 on 17 January 2022 at world No. 296.

He won his second Challenger title at the 2022 Challenger Città di Lugano, defeating Leandro Riedi in the final. [5] He made his Masters debut at the 2022 Rome Masters as a wildcard.

He won his third Challenger title at the 2022 Rafa Nadal Open in Mallorca, beating Zizou Bergs in the final. This was his first Challenger win on an outdoor hard court. He made his debut in the top 150 at world No. 142 on 12 September 2022. [6]

At the ATP 500 2022 Astana Open he qualified into the main draw defeating top seed David Goffin. He won his first ATP match and first at the ATP 500 tour-level defeating fellow qualifier Alexander Shevchenko to reach the second round. [7] He lost to third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in very close match with two tiebreaks having had two breakpoints, and conceding none. [8]

2023–2024: First Masters and world No. 1 wins & fourth round, top 100

Ranked No. 159, he made his debut at the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters after defeating fourth seed Constant Lestienne and eleventh seed Oscar Otte in the qualifying competition. [9] He won his first round match, recording his first Masters win and only his second on ATP tour-level, over wildcard Valentin Vacherot. He lost by a double bagel to compatriot and 16th seed Lorenzo Musetti in just 50 minutes. [10] [11] As a result, he moved more than 15 positions up in the rankings.

He received a wildcard for the main draw at the Italian Open, [12] where he lost in the first round to David Goffin. In the following weeks, Nardi reached two Challengers quarterfinals, in Vicenza and in Milan. In August, he won his fourth Challenger title in Porto, defeating Portuguese João Sousa in the final and reached a career high ranking of No. 116 on 28 August 2023. In October, he received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2023 European Open. In November, he qualified for the 2023 Next Generation ATP Finals. [13]

Ranked No. 123 at the 2024 BNP Paribas Open he replaced as a lucky loser, 30th seed Tomás Martín Etcheverry directly into the second round. [14] He defeated Zhizhen Zhang for his first win at this Masters and reached his first third round at this level. [15] In his next match, he took the first set off world No. 1 Novak Djokovic the first lucky loser to do so at an ATP Masters 1000 event, and the first at an ATP event overall since fellow Italian Lorenzo Sonego in Vienna 2020. [16] He ended up winning that third round match in three sets against the top seed to reach the fourth round for the first time in his career and became the lowest-ranked player ever to defeat Djokovic at a Masters or a Grand Slam. [17] As a result he made his top 100 debut in the rankings. [18] [19]

Performance timelines

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Current through the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open.

Tournament 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 SRW–LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open AAA Q1 Q2 0 / 00–0 – 
French Open AA Q3 Q1 0 / 00–0 – 
Wimbledon NHAA Q2 0 / 00–0 – 
US Open AA Q1 Q1 0 / 00–0 – 
Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00 / 00–0 – 
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters NHAAA 4R 0 / 12–167%
Miami Open NHAAA Q1 0 / 00–0 – 
Monte-Carlo Masters NHAA 2R 1R 0 / 21–233%
Madrid Open NHAA Q1 A0 / 00–0 – 
Italian Open AA 1R 1R 0 / 20–20%
Win–loss0–00–00–11–22–20 / 53–538%
Career statistics
Tournaments10453Career total: 13
Titles00000Career total: 0
Finals00000Career total: 0
Overall win–loss0–10–01–42–72–30 / 135–1525%
Year-end ranking787364135118

ATP Challenger and Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 12 (9–3)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (6–2)
Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (3–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (6–1)
Clay (3–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Mar 2020M15 Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptWorld Tennis TourHard Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jaroslav Pospíšil 5–7, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Win2–0Jun 2021M15 Genova, ItalyWorld Tennis TourClay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Johan Nikles 6–4, 6–2
Loss2–1Jul 2021M15 Perugia, ItalyWorld Tennis TourClay Flag of Italy.svg Andrea Basso 3–6, 6–4, 6–7(3–7)
Win3–1Sep 2021M25 Madrid, SpainWorld Tennis TourClay Flag of Germany.svg Louis Wessels 7–5, 6–2
Win4–1 Jan 2022 Forlì, ItalyChallengerHard (i) Flag of India.svg Mukund Sasikumar 6–3, 6–1
Win5–1 Mar 2022 Lugano, SwitzerlandChallengerHard (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Leandro Riedi 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win6–1 Aug 2022 Mallorca, SpainChallengerHard Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Zizou Bergs 7–6(7–2), 3–6, 7–5
Loss6–2 Feb 2023 Pune, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Purcell 2–6, 3–6
Win7–2 Jul 2023 Porto, PortugalChallengerHard Flag of Portugal.svg João Sousa 5–7, 6–4, 6–1
Win8–2 Nov 2023 Matsuyama, JapanChallengerHard Flag of Japan.svg Taro Daniel 3–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss8–3 Feb 2024 Chennai, IndiaChallengerHard Flag of India.svg Sumit Nagal 1–6, 4–6
Win9–3 Mar 2024 Napoli, ItalyChallengerClay Flag of France.svg Pierre-Hugues Herbert 5–7, 7–6(7–3), 6–2

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0Mar 2021M15 Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptWorld Tennis TourHard Flag of Italy.svg Jacopo Berrettini Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsu Yu-hsiou
Flag of Japan.svg Shintaro Imai		6–3, 2–6, [10–7]

Wins over top 10 players

Season 2024 Total
Wins11
#PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScoreLNR
2024
1. Flag of Serbia.svg Novak Djokovic 1 Indian Wells, USAHard3R6–4, 3–6, 6–3123
*As of 12 March 2024

Record against top-10 players

Nardi's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface:

PlayerRecordWin %HardClayGrassLast Match
Number 1 ranked players
Flag of Serbia.svg Novak Djokovic 1–0100%1–0––Won (6–4, 4–6, 6–3) at 2024 Indian Wells
Number 3 ranked players
Flag of Greece.svg Stefanos Tsitsipas 0–10%0–1––Lost (6–7(2–7), 6–7(3–7)) at 2022 Astana
Total1–150%1–1
(50%)		0–0
( – )		0–0
( – )		* Statistics correct as of 11 March 2024

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