Liudmila Samsonova and Sofia Kenin will square off in the 1st round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on Grandstand 1. In the following lines 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 -> 1.31
Sofia Kenin -> 3.46
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Sofia Kenin
This will be the 2nd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Sofia Kenin face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kenin won 6-4 3-6 6-3 in the 1st round in at the French Open back in 2020.
Highlights Sofia Kenin vs Liudmila Samsonova – French Open 29-September-2020
Liudmila Samsonova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 20-12 | 10-6 | 4-4 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 15 (career-high), Samsonova will start her run in Doha after she played her last match in Abu Dhabi where she lost 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4 to Bencic in the final on the 12th of February.
Ludmilla has an aggregate 6-4 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Russian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Abu Dhabi.
Talking about her overall career, Samsonova has an overall 240-132 record. She has a positive 79-43 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See her history.
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-24 | 7-15 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-6 | 6-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 210, the American will start her run in Doha after she played her last match in Linz where she lost 2-6 6-3 6-4 to Niemeier in the 1st round on the 6th of February.
The American has an overall 4-4 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Hobart.
In terms of her career, The American has an overall 234-148 record. She has a positive 143-86 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-4 3-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Ipek OzOz (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Louis WesselsWessels – Mousa ZayedZayed (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeroen VannesteVanneste – Loic PerretPerret (7-63 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Buvaysar GadamauriGadamauri (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitriy VoroninVoronin – Christopher HeymanHeyman (4-6 6-4 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seppe CuypersCuypers – Billy HarrisHarris (4-6 7-62 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Yates JohnsonJohnson (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sidane PontjodikromoPontjodikromo – Marco Di MaroDi Maro (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime PauwelsPauwels – Mubarak Shannan ZayidShannan Zayid (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elise MertensMertens – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Belinda BencicBencic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Qinwen ZhengZheng (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Rebecca MarinoMarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
