Kirsten Flipkens and Liudmila Samsonova will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Palermo Ladies Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6 pm on Court 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.40
Kirsten Flipkens -> 2.75
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Kirsten Flipkens
Ranked no. 77, the Belgian will start her run in Palermo after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-2 6-4 to Yastremska in the 1st round the 24th of February.
Flipkens has a 4-5 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about her overall career, Kirsten has an overall 464-354 record. She has positive 125-99 record on clay.
Last year in Palermo
Flipkens didn’t compete in Palermo in 2019.
Liudmila Samsonova
Ranked no. 117, the Russian reached the 1st round after defeating Tereza Mrdeza 6-3 6-4, Marta Kostyuk 4-6 6-4 6-3 and Laura-Ioana Paar 6-2 7-69.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Andrei (6-2 7-69). During the match Samsonova scored 83 points vs Andrei’s 69. Ludmilla was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Samsonova bagged 5 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 54% of her first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 54% (20/37) on the 2nd serve. Ludmilla broke Andrei 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ludmilla has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
Samsonova has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 68% of her matches (244-116). 3-0 on clay in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Samsonova has a 160-84 record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Russian has a 14-5 win-loss record in 2020, 3-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Palermo
Samsonova lost in the semifinal 6-3 6-1 to Jil Teichmann.
Head 2 Head
LWLWWLLWLW Tennis Scores in Palermo
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (5-7 6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Arantxa RusRus (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Polona HercogHercog (7-61 6-3) – See score progression
- Sara ErraniErrani – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (7-5 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Andre MieleMiele (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Adrien BosselBossel – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Pierre FaivreFaivre – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Petra MarticMartic – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (1-0) – See H2H details
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (2-0) – See H2H details
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Elise MertensMertens (2-1) – See H2H details
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (1-1) – See H2H details
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Fiona FerroFerro (1-0) – See H2H details
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – See H2H details
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Oceane DodinDodin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (1-1) – See H2H details
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – See H2H details
