Timea Babos and Liudmila Samsonova will face off in the qualifications of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12:00 pm on TC DYNAMO. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the 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 -> 1.53
Timea Babos -> 2.37
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Prediction and head to head Timea Babos vs. Liudmila Samsonova
There is no head to head record between Timea Babos and Liudmila Samsonova since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Timea Babos
Ranked no. 98, Timea got to the qualifications after beating Kamilla Rakhimova 3-6 6-4 7-65.
In the qualifications against Rakhimova, The Hungarian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 7-65). During the match Babos scored 104 points vs Rakhimova’s 101. Timea was extremely aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Babos blasted 9 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Timea Babos lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Babos put 66% of her first serves in, winning 73% (47/64) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (16/33) on the 2nd serve. Timea broke Rakhimova 3 times after converting 60% of her break points (3/5).
Babos has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (171-106). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Babos has a 175-192 win-loss record in the last 10 years on indoor hard courts.
The Hungarian has a 3-4 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
Timea didn’t compete in St. Petersburg in 2019.
Liudmila Samsonova
Ranked no. 114 (career high), the Russian got to the qualifications after defeating Ekaterina Shalimova 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Samsonova had a good straight sets win against Shalimova (6-2 6-1). During the match Samsonova scored 58 points vs Shalimova’s 32. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Samsonova blasted 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 54% of her first serves in, winning 68% (17/25) of the points behind her 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the 2nd serve. Samsonova broke Shalimova 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).
Samsonova has a winning record in the last 5 years having won 52% of her matches (13-12). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Samsonova has a 32-24 record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
Ludmilla has a 8-2 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
The Russian capitulated in the qualifications 6-3 6-3 to Margarita Gasparyan.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Babos | Samsonova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 15 |
| Pts | 104-101 | 58-32 |
| Total Points | 205 | 90 |
| Winners | 47 | 17 |
| %Winners | 45% | 29% |
Both Babos and Samsonova played 1 matche. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Timea Babos conceded 1 set while Liudmila Samsonova hasn’t dropped a set so far. Babos has played 1 sets more than Samsonova (3 vs 2). Therefore, Babos played 17 games more than Samsonova. The Hungarian scored 47 winners (45% on total points). On the other side, Samsonova blasted 17 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Babos | Samsonova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 2 |
| 1st in | 64/97 | 25/46 |
| %1st in | 66% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 47/64 | 17/25 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 16/33 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 57% |
Babos blasted 9 aces . Samsonova blasted 2 aces . Babos won 73% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Samsonova won 68% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Babos | Samsonova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 6/7 |
| % Converted | 60% | 86% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 57% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Babos broke her opponent 3 times with 60% conversion rate. The Hungarian conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 57% of the break points that she conceded. Samsonova broke her opponent 6 times with 86% conversion rate. Ludmilla conceded her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded.
| Babos | |||
| Q1 Rakhimova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-4 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 104-101 | 104-101 | |
| Total points | 205 | 205 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 64/97 | 64/97 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 47/64 | 47/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/33 | 16/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 200 | |
| Samsonova | |||
| Q1 Shalimova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-32 | 58-32 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 25/46 | 25/46 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 17/25 | 17/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 100 | |
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