Karolina Pliskova and Liudmila Samsonova will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.75
Liudmila Samsonova -> 2.13

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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Liudmila Samsonova

This will be the 2^nd time that Karolina Pliskova and Liudmila Samsonova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Pliskova won 6-2 6-3 in the 4^th round in at the Wimbledon back in 2021.

Karolina Pliskova

Ranked no. 7, Karolina reached the 2^nd round after defeating Petra Kvitova 6-4 4-6 7-6⁵.

In the 1^st round, Pliskova defeated Kvitova (6-4 4-6 7-6⁵).During the match, Pliskova scored less points (7) than Kvitova. In fact, the world no. 7 won 100 points vs Kvitova’s. That means that Pliskova was more focused during the important points. Karolina was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Talking about the service games, Pliskova struck 13 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Karolina Pliskova lost the serve 5 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Pliskova put 63% of her first serves in, winning 66% (43/65) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (15/38) on the 2nd serve. Pliskova broke Kvitova 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).

Pliskova has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (391-197). 2-1 on clay in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Pliskova has a composed 71-40 record in the last years on clay.

Pliskova has a composed 2-3 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Stuttgart

Liudmila Samsonova

Ranked no. 31, Ludmilla reached the 2^nd round after defeating Chloe Paquet 6-0 6-0.

In the 1^st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Paquet (6-0 6-0). During the match Samsonova scored 56 points vs Paquet’s 26. Ludmilla was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Talking about serving, Samsonova bagged 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Liudmila Samsonova was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (18/25) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Paquet 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

The Russian has an aggregate 7-7 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Stuttgart

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2019. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Pliskova	Samsonova
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	33	12
Pts	100-107	56-26
Total Points	207	82
Winners	43	18
%Winners	43%	32%

Both Pliskova and Samsonova played 1 match. At the moment, Karolina Pliskova dropped 1 set while Liudmila Samsonova hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Pliskova has played 1 set more than Samsonova (3 vs 2). Therefore, Pliskova played 21 games more than Samsonova. The Czech scored 43 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Samsonova fired 18 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Pliskova	Samsonova
Aces	13	3
Avg per match	13	3
1st in	65/103	25/38
%1st in	63%	66%
1st pts	43/65	18/25
%1st pts	66%	72%
2nd pts	15/38	8/13
%2nd pts	39%	62%

Pliskova managed to score 13 aces . Samsonova struck 3 aces . Pliskova won 66% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 39% of the points. On the other side, Samsonova won 72% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Pliskova	Samsonova
Won	5	6
Converted	5/11	6/8
% Converted	45%	75%
Conceded	6	1
Saved	1	1
% Saved	17%	100%
Times Broken	5	0

The Czech broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Karolina lost her serve 5 times and she saved 17% of the break points that she conceded. Ludmilla broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Pliskova
	R1 Kvitova	Total
Score	6-4 4-6 7-65
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	100-107	100-107
Total points	207	207
Winners	43	43
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	13	13
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	65/103	65/103
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	43/65	43/65
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	15/38	15/38
% 2nd pts	39%	39%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/11	5/11
Converted %	45%	45%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	1/6	1
Saved %	17%	17%
Times Broken	5	5

Samsonova
	R1 Paquet	Total
Score	6-0 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	12	12
pts	56-26	56-26
Total points	82	82
Winners	18	18
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	25/38	25/38
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	18/25	18/25
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	8/13	8/13
% 2nd pts	62%	62%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Stuttgart

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• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jared DonaldsonDonaldson (6-4 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ryan HarrisonHarrison – John MillmanMillman (6-7² 7-6⁴ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kyle EdmundEdmund – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (2-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jack SockSock – Dudi SelaSela (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tommy PaulPaul – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• John IsnerIsner – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lukas LackoLacko – Donald YoungYoung (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gilles MullerMuller – Quentin HalysHalys (6-4 6-7¹ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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