
Cori Gauff and Liudmila Samsonova will play each other in the 2nd round of the Volvo Car Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2.30 pm on Court 2. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cori Gauff who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cori Gauff is the pick to win this match.
Cori Gauff -> 1.49
Liudmila Samsonova -> 2.7
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Prediction and head to head Cori Gauff vs. Liudmila Samsonova
This will be the 2nd time that Cori Gauff and Liudmila Samsonova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gauff (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Gauff won 6-7(10) 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in Linz back in 2019.
Cori Gauff
Ranked no. 36, Cori reached the 2nd round after beating Tsvetana Pironkova 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, Gauff had a good straight sets win against Pironkova (6-3 6-0). During the match Gauff scored 65 points vs Pironkova’s 41. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gauff managed to score 4 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Cori Gauff lost the serve once and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Gauff put 48% of her first serves in, winning 78% (18/23) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Gauff broke Pironkova 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).
Gauff has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 65% of her matches (62-33). 1-0 on clay in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Gauff has a 15-9 win-loss record in the last 5 years on clay.
Gauff’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.
Cori has a 12-6 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Charleston
Gauff has never competed in this tournament before.
Liudmila Samsonova
Ranked no. 110 (career high), the Russian reached the 2nd round after defeating Nao Hibino 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Samsonova had a good straight sets win against Hibino (6-2 6-1). During the match Samsonova scored 63 points vs Hibino’s 40. Ludmilla was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Samsonova fired 7 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova was very effective on serve to win 80% (20/25) of her 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Hibino 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Samsonova has a 11-5 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Gauff | Samsonova |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 |
Pts | 65-41 | 63-40 |
Total Points | 106 | 103 |
Winners | 18 | 20 |
%Winners | 28% | 32% |
Both Gauff and Samsonova played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gauff and Samsonova have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (15). Cori scored 18 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Ludmilla scored 20 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Gauff | Samsonova |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 7 |
Avg per match | 4 | 7 |
1st in | 23/48 | 25/49 |
%1st in | 48% | 51% |
1st pts | 18/23 | 20/25 |
%1st pts | 78% | 80% |
2nd pts | 12/25 | 15/24 |
%2nd pts | 48% | 63% |
Gauff recorded 4 aces . Samsonova managed to score 7 aces . Gauff won 78% 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 80% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Gauff | Samsonova |
---|---|---|
Won | 6 | 4 |
Converted | 6/13 | 4/5 |
% Converted | 46% | 80% |
Conceded | 7 | 3 |
Saved | 6 | 3 |
% Saved | 86% | 100% |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Cori broke her opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. The American surrendered her serve once and she saved 86% of the break points that she conceded. Samsonova broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Ludmilla was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
Gauff | |||
R1 Pironkova |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
pts | 65-41 | 65-41 | |
Total points | 106 | 106 | |
Winners | 18 | 18 | |
%Winners | 28% | 28% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
1st in | 23/48 | 23/48 | |
% 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
1st pts | 18/23 | 18/23 | |
% 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
% 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 6 | 6 | |
Converted | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
Converted % | 46% | 46% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Samsonova | |||
R1 Hibino |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
pts | 63-40 | 63-40 | |
Total points | 103 | 103 | |
Winners | 20 | 20 | |
%Winners | 32% | 32% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 7 | 7 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 25/49 | 25/49 | |
% 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
% 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
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