24 Facts About Luca Nardi

Luca Nardi was born on 6 August 2003 and is an Italian professional tennis player.

Luca Nardi has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No 67 achieved on 3 March 2025.

Luca Nardi has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No 299, attained on 10 April 2023.

Luca Nardi 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.

Luca Nardi enjoys soccer and padel, supports Napoli thanks to his father, and idolizes tennis players Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

Luca 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.

Luca Nardi 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 Citta di Forli III Challenger.

Luca Nardi won his second Challenger title at the 2022 Challenger Citta di Lugano, defeating Leandro Riedi in the final.

Luca Nardi made his Masters debut at the 2022 Rome Masters as a wildcard.

Luca Nardi won his third Challenger title at the 2022 Rafa Nadal Open in Mallorca, beating Zizou Bergs in the final.

Luca Nardi made his debut in the top 150 at world No 142 on 12 September 2022.

Luca Nardi won his first ATP match and first at the ATP 500 tour-level defeating fellow qualifier Alexander Shevchenko to reach the second round.

Luca Nardi lost to third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in very close match with two tiebreaks having had two breakpoints, and conceding none.

Luca Nardi won his first round match, recording his first Masters win and only his second on ATP tour-level, over wildcard Valentin Vacherot.

Luca Nardi lost by a double bagel to compatriot and 16th seed Lorenzo Musetti in just 50 minutes.

Luca Nardi received a wildcard for the main draw at the Italian Open, where he lost in the first round to David Goffin in three sets.

Luca Nardi defeated Zhizhen Zhang for his first win at this Masters and reached his first third round at this level.

Luca Nardi 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.

Luca Nardi won his sixth Challenger title at home soil at the 2024 Tennis Napoli Cup after defeating Pierre-Hugues Herbert in three sets.

Luca Nardi passed first round at home Masters 1000 event in Rome, where he beat Daniel Altmaier, before losing to 10th seed Holger Rune.

Luca Nardi made his Grand Slam tournament debut at the 2024 French Open, but lost in the first round to Alexandre Muller.

In November 2024, Luca Nardi reached the final at the ATP Challenger HPP Open in Helsinki, Finland, losing to Kei Nishikori in the final in three sets.

Luca Nardi was runner-up at the 2025 Koblenz Challenger, losing to Ugo Blanchet in the final which went to a deciding set tiebreak.

Again as a lucky loser, Luca Nardi reached the quarterfinals at the ATP 500 2025 Dubai Tennis Championships defeating Zizou Bergs.