Liudmila Samsonova and Qinwen Zheng will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on Court 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Liudmila Samsonova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Liudmila Samsonova is the pick to win this match.
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.89
Qinwen Zheng -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Qinwen Zheng
This will be the 4th time that Liudmila Samsonova and Qinwen Zheng square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Samsonova (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Samsonova won 6-4 1-6 6-4 in the semifinal in Abu Dhabi back in February 2023.
Highlights Liudmila Samsonova vs Qinwen Zheng – Abu Dhabi 11-February-2023
Liudmila Samsonova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-23 | 15-15 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-23 | 12-15 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-24 | 25-15 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-17 | 26-10 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-22 | 15-9 | 6-9 | 8-3 | 10-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 13 (career-high), Ludmilla reached the 2nd round after beating Paula Badosa Gibert 6-73 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round against Badosa, The Russian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 7-65 6-4).During the match, Samsonova scored less points (2) than Badosa. In fact, the world no. 13 won 125 points vs Badosa’s. That means that Samsonova was more focused during the important points. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 57 winners.
Regarding the service games, Samsonova managed to score 12 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve twice and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 53% of her first serves in, winning 74% (57/77) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (31/67) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Badosa 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Samsonova has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 64% of her matches (241-133). 7-5 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Samsonova has an aggregate80-44 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Ludmilla’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Abu Dhabi.
Samsonova has a composed 7-5 win-loss record in 2023, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Qinwen Zheng
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-12 | 8-6 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-18 | 31-10 | 17-4 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-19 | 23-11 | 11-4 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-19 | 27-12 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-11 | 7-1 | 16-6 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 24 (career-high), Qinwen reached the 2nd round after defeating Shuai Zhang 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Qinwen had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-3 6-1). During the match Zheng scored 61 points vs Zhang’s 38. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Zheng recorded 6 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Qinwen Zheng lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 42% of her first serves in, winning 90% (18/20) of the points behind her 1st serve and 43% (12/28) on the 2nd serve. Qinwen broke Zhang 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).
Qinwen’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Abu Dhabi.
Qinwen has a composed 9-5 win-loss record in 2023, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Qinwen has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Samsonova | Zheng |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 16 |
| Pts | 125-127 | 61-38 |
| Total Points | 252 | 99 |
| Winners | 57 | 18 |
| %Winners | 46% | 30% |
Both Samsonova and Zheng played 1 match. At the moment, Liudmila Samsonova dropped 1 set while Qinwen Zheng hasn’t conceded a set so far. Samsonova has played 1 set more than Zheng (3 vs 2). Therefore, Samsonova played 20 games more than Zheng. The Russian scored 57 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Zheng managed to score 18 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Samsonova | Zheng |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 6 |
| 1st in | 77/144 | 20/48 |
| %1st in | 53% | 42% |
| 1st pts | 57/77 | 18/20 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 90% |
| 2nd pts | 31/67 | 12/28 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 43% |
Samsonova fired 12 aces . Zheng made 6 aces . Samsonova won 74% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Zheng won 90% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Samsonova | Zheng |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 6/11 |
| % Converted | 60% | 55% |
| Conceded | 11 | 7 |
| Saved | 9 | 5 |
| % Saved | 82% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Russian broke her opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Samsonova conceded her serve twice and she saved 82% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Qinwen conceded her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded.
| Samsonova | |||
| R1 Badosa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-73 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 36 | 36 | |
| pts | 125-127 | 125-127 | |
| Total points | 252 | 252 | |
| Winners | 57 | 57 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 77/144 | 77/144 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 57/77 | 57/77 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 31/67 | 31/67 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Zheng | |||
| R1 Zhang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-38 | 61-38 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 20/48 | 20/48 | |
| % 1st in | 42% | 42% | |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 18/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 12/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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