Aryna Sabalenka and Liudmila Samsonova will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Akron Tennis Stadium. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Liudmila Samsonova is the pick to win this match.
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.68
Aryna Sabalenka -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Aryna Sabalenka vs. Liudmila Samsonova
There is no head to head record between Aryna Sabalenka and Liudmila Samsonova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Aryna Sabalenka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-9 | 14-4 | 15-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-14 | 35-9 | 14-3 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-22 | 20-15 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-18 | 24-11 | 13-3 | 1-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 29-10 | 14-7 | 6-3 | 9-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 4, Sabalenka will start her run in Guadalajara after she played her last match in San Diego where she lost 6-4 6-7(5) 6-1 to Vekic in the quarter on the 14th of October.
The Belarussian has a compiled 30-19 win-loss record in 2022, 17-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Belarussian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Stuttgart and Hertogenbosch.
Talking about her overall career, Sabalenka has an overall 260-137 record. She has a positive 151-73 record on hard.
Previously in Guadalajara
The Belarussian has never competed in this tournament before.
Liudmila Samsonova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-16 | 4-8 | 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 |
| 2020 | 20-12 | 10-6 | 4-4 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 22 (career-high), Samsonova reached the 2nd round after beating Kaia Kanepi 6-1 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Kanepi (6-1 7-5). During the match Samsonova scored 67 points vs Kanepi’s 49. Ludmilla was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Samsonova struck 7 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 45% of her first serves in, winning 91% (21/23) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Kanepi 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Washington where she overcame Kaia Kanepi in the final 4-6 6-3 6-3 and in Cleveland where she defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the final 6-1 6-3 and in Tokyo where she beat Qinwen Zheng in the final 7-5 7-5.
Samsonova has an overall 29-16 win-loss record in 2022, 25-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Samsonova has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Lin ZhuZhu (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-6 6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cheong-Eui KimKim – Ku Keon KangKeon Kang (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel YooYoo – Yunseong ChungChung (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Madison KeysKeys (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Sloane StephensStephens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca MarinoMarino – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Donna VekicVekic (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Eugenie BouchardBouchard – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
