Liudmila Samsonova and Harriet Dart will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12:30 pm on Court 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Liudmila Samsonova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Liudmila Samsonova is the pick to win this match.
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.285
Harriet Dart -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Harriet Dart

This will be the 2nd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Harriet Dart 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 hard.

The last time that they squared off, Samsonova won 6-3 ret. in the quarter in the W25 Reims back in 2020.

Liudmila Samsonova

Liudmila Samsonova

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
17
High
12
LWLWWLLWLW
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. 34 (career-high), Samsonova reached the qualifications after beating Kristina Kucova 7-5 6-1.

In the qualifications, Ludmilla had a good straight sets win against Kucova (7-5 6-1). During the match, Samsonova scored 67 points vs Kucova’s 56. Ludmilla was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Samsonova recorded 9 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 54% of her first serves in, winning 80% (24/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Kucova 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Samsonova has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 65% of her matches (208-114). 4-3 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Samsonova has an aggregate51-32 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

Ludmilla has an overall 4-3 win-loss record in 2022, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Dubai
Samsonova's Record

Harriet Dart

Harriet Dart

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
179
High
70
WWWWWLWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-22 14-11 0-5 9-2 1-4 0-0
2024 26-27 12-12 3-7 5-3 6-5 0-0
2023 42-32 27-19 1-3 6-5 8-5 0-0
2022 29-29 17-15 1-5 4-4 7-5 0-0
2021 27-23 17-12 8-4 1-3 1-4 0-0

Ranked no. 130, Harriet got to the qualifications after defeating Sarah Behbehani 6-0 6-0.

In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Behbehani (6-0 6-0). During the match Dart scored 48 points vs Behbehani’s 4. Harriet was exceptionally aggressive to blast 11 winners.

Talking about serving, Dart scored 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Harriet Dart was very effective on serve to win 100% (11/11) of her 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Harriet was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Behbehani 6 times.

Dart has a compiled 6-3 win-loss record in 2022, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Dubai

Harriet has never competed in this tournament before.

Dubai
Dart's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

L.Samsonova
H.Dart
!
1h:26
1h:26
Time on court​
0h:29
0h:29
1h:26
1h:26
Last match​
!
0h:29
0h:29
1
1
Match played
1
1
19
19
Games Played​
12
12
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
67
67
Total points​
48
48
67
67
Avg point​
48
48
24
24
Winners
11
11
24
24
Avg Winners​
11
11
36%
36%
Ratio winners
23%
23%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
2
2
9
9
Avg Aces
2
2
6
6
Double Faults
2
2
!
6
6
Avg Double Faults
2
2
24/30
24/30
1st won total​
11/11
11/11
!
80%
80%
1st won %
!
100%
100%
12/26
12/26
2nd won total​
13/17
13/17
46%
46%
2nd won %
!
76%
76%
-- Break Points --
5/10
5/10
BP won
6/6
6/6
5/10
5/10
Avg BP won
6/6
6/6
50%
50%
Won
!
100%
100%
4
4
Conceded
0
0
4
4
Avg Conceded
0
0
1
1
Broken
0
0
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0
0
3
3
Saved
0
0

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Samsonova Dart
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 12
Pts 67-56 48-4
Total Points 123 52
Winners 24 11
%Winners 36% 23%

Both Samsonova and Dart played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Samsonova and Dart have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Samsonova played 7 games more than Dart. Samsonova scored 24 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit struck 11 winners (23%).

Serve Performance

Serve Samsonova Dart
Aces 9 2
Avg per match 9 2
1st in 30/56 11/28
%1st in 54% 39%
1st pts 24/30 11/11
%1st pts 80% 100%
2nd pts 12/26 13/17
%2nd pts 46% 76%

Samsonova scored 9 aces . Dart made 2 aces . Samsonova won 80% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Dart won 100% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 76% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Samsonova Dart
Won 5 6
Converted 5/10 6/6
% Converted 50% 100%
Conceded 4 0
Saved 3 0
% Saved 75% 0%
Times Broken 1 0

The Russian broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Russian dropped her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. The Brit broke her opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. Harriet was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Samsonova
Q1
Kucova
Total
Score 7-5 6-1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 67-56 67-56
Total points 123 123
Winners 24 24
%Winners 36% 36%
SERVE
Aces 9 9
Double Faults 6 6
1st in 30/56 30/56
% 1st in 54% 54%
1st pts 24/30 24/30
% 1st pts 80% 80%
2nd pts 12/26 12/26
% 2nd pts 46% 46%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/10 5/10
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 3/4 3
Saved % 75% 75%
Times Broken 1 1
Dart
Q1
Behbehani
Total
Score 6-0 6-0
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 12 12
pts 48-4 48-4
Total points 52 52
Winners 11 11
%Winners 23% 23%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 11/28 11/28
% 1st in 39% 39%
1st pts 11/11 11/11
% 1st pts 100% 100%
2nd pts 13/17 13/17
% 2nd pts 76% 76%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/6 6/6
Converted % 100% 100%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % 0%
Times Broken 0 0

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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