Liudmila Samsonova and Marta Kostyuk will face off in the qualifications of the Palermo Ladies Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 8 pm on Court 6. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marta Kostyuk who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marta Kostyuk is the pick to win this match.
Marta Kostyuk -> 1.83
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.83
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Marta Kostyuk
This will be the 2nd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Marta Kostyuk fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Samsonova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Samsonova won 7-64 6-4 in the qualifications in Brisbane back in January 2020.
Liudmila Samsonova
Ranked no. 117, the Russian got to the qualifications after defeating Tereza Mrdeza 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Samsonova had a good straight sets win against Mrdeza (6-3 6-4). During the match Samsonova scored 59 points vs Mrdeza’s 49. Samsonova was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Samsonova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 50% of her first serves in, winning 73% (19/26) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Mrdeza 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).
Samsonova has a negative record in the last 5 years having won 33% of her matches (234-116). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Samsonova has a 158-84 win-loss record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Russian has a 12-5 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Palermo
Samsonova surrendered in the semifinal 6-3 6-1 to Jil Teichmann.
Marta Kostyuk
Ranked no. 141, will start her run in Palermo after she played her last match in Palermo where she overcame 6-1 6-2 to Seguel in the qualifications the 1st of August.
Marta has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
In terms of her career, The Ukrainian has an overall 96-44 record. She has positive 43-18 record on clay.
Last year in Palermo
Kostyuk didn’t compete in Palermo in 2019.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Palermo
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Magdalena FrechFrech (2-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Tereza MrdezaMrdeza (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Melania DelaiDelai (6-72 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Indy De VroomeDe Vroome (3-6 7-69 6-2) – See score progression
- Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-0 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Leonie KungKung (4-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Laura-Ioana PaarPaar – Bibiane SchoofsSchoofs (6-2 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Reka-Luca JaniJani (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anastasiya KomardinaKomardina (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Martina Di GiuseppeDi Giuseppe – Chloe PaquetPaquet (0-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Oceane DodinDodin – Federica BilardoBilardo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Dalila SpiteriSpiteri (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Matilde PaolettiPaoletti (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Yanina WickmayerWickmayer – Barbara HaasHaas (0-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (1-1) – See H2H details
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aliona BolsovaBolsova – Laura-Ioana AndreiAndrei (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena – Martina Di GiuseppeDi Giuseppe (1-0) – See H2H details
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (1-0) – See H2H details
- Oceane DodinDodin – Yanina WickmayerWickmayer (1-0) – See H2H details
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (0-0) – See H2H details
- Petra MarticMartic – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (1-0) – See H2H details
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-2) – See H2H details
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (1-1) – See H2H details
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (2-1) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogHercog – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-0) – See H2H details
- Arantxa RusRus – Donna VekicVekic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Sara ErraniErrani – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (5-2) – See H2H details
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – See H2H details
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – See H2H details
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (1-1) – See H2H details