Both for Luciano Darderi and for Pedro Martinez, competition in Miami was a chance to find a form, because both players have brittle with her in recent weeks. They both faced Australian Open in the first round and the Spaniard won there, although Darderi struggled with problems, which at 6: 3, 4: 1 forced him to end the match earlier. Martinez later fell out in the second round with Alexander Zvereve. The Spaniard played quite well shortly after Australia, he beat Holger Rune in Rotterdam. However, five meetings before Miami are a set of failures.
Darderi and Martinez desperately needed to win
Although he was better than Darderi anyway. The Italian throughout 2025 won only one of seven matches and after the rival's crew, specifically Bolivian Hugo Dellien in the first round in Rio de Janeiro. So they both needed to win like oxygen. From the perspective of Hubert Hurkacz, Martinez's promotion would be potentially beneficial, because the Pole has a direct balance of 3: 0 with him. He had never played with Darderim before.
Twenty points in a row! Darderi used the nightmare of the rival
However, it must always be the first time and in this case it will be, because Italy played his definitely the best match this year. In the first set it did not get any break. Suffice it to say that out of ten games played in it, half of them were won to zero. And yet someone has finally failed and it was Martinez. At 5: 4, Darderi unexpectedly won three set balls and used the third, winning the 6: 4 set.
The second batch was much faster and more one -sided. From 1: 1 Darderi won five more games, and his rival fell completely. After breaking 3: 1, Martinez did not win a single exchange. Yes, exchange. Each of the last twenty replacements of the match (counting with those from the fourth game) fell to Darderi, who won 6: 1, and the whole match 6: 4, 6: 1 in just 64 minutes and can be preparing at the start with Hurkacz.