Luciano Darderi doesn’t even have to take the court at the ATP 250 in Lyon to earn the semi-final. In fact, the Frenchman’s forfeit before playing helped him Arthur Rinderknechwho would be his opponent.
The reasons for the withdrawal of the Frenchman, who had prevailed over the Briton in the first two rounds, are not known Daniel Evans by 6-3 4-6 7-6(7) and on the USA by Frances Tiafoe 7-6(7) 6-4. It would have been his second quarter-final of the season; the first had reached him in Marseille.
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As for Darderi, however, he will face the third semi-final on the major circuit, after in Cordoba (ATP 250) he pushed himself to win the tournament and after, in Dallas, he instead had to stop in front of Tiafoe in the penultimate act .
With the situation that has arisen, Darderi enters the top 40 of the ATP ranking with the prospect of remaining there even if all combinations of results from both France and Geneva turn out badly. Furthermore, he is 27th in the Race and increasingly has his feet within the Italian singles quartet at the Olympics. And in Lyon, after beating the Japanese Taro Daniel and French Adrian Mannarino (which on red isn’t worth his ranking), there will be one of the Argentine’s to challenge him Tomas Martin Etcheverry and the German Dominik Koepfer.
