Liudmila Samsonova tops Shuai Zhang 7-6(4) 6-2 in the semifinal in Tokyo on Saturday. Samsonova will square off with Qinwen Zheng in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes.
Highlights Liudmila Samsonova vs. Shuai Zhang Toray Pan Pacific Open – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:27
At the end of the match, Samsonova scored 75 points vs. the Chinese’s 58.
Samsonova
The Russian fired 13 aces and she committed 2 double faults. Samsonova was pretty effective at converting 80% of the break points that she procured (4/5).
Zhang
On the other side, the Chinese didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (2/4). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Samsonova and Zhang is 1-0 for Ludmilla.
Draw and next match H2H: Liudmila Samsonova vs. Qinwen Zheng – stats
Samsonova will square off with Zheng in the final.
This will be the 2nd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Qinwen Zheng square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Zheng (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Zheng won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Palermo back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
The Russian won the set after she broke the Chinese in the 3rd (2-1) game. Shuai tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. However, Samsonova stayed solid to eventually clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
The Russian won 3 minibreaks in the 5th (3-2), 8th (5-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Zhang won a minibreak in the 7th (3-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
They contested 86 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 12 more points than Shuai (49-37). Samsonova lost 9 points on serve (32-9). Regarding the other side of the net, Shuai conceded 17 points on serve (28-17).
Samsonova was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Shuai Zhang in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the Russian was not done to come back to break the Chinese 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Zhang lost the 2nd game (1-1) when she was serving and leading 40-0. Zhang was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-2 to 6-2.
The Russian was exemplary in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 6th (3-2 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40). On the other side, Zhang converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 50 points. Ludmilla conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Zhang (30-20). Ludmilla dropped 9 points on serve (15-9). on the other side of the court, Zhang conceded 15 points on serve (11-15).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (5-7 6-3 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-64 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H details and stats
