Liudmila Samsonova and Paula Badosa Gibert will face off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 4:00 pm on Centre Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Liudmila Samsonova who should win in 3 sets.
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.66
Paula Badosa Gibert -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Paula Badosa Gibert
This will be the 3rd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Paula Badosa Gibert face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Samsonova (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Samsonova won 6-7(4) 7-6(4) 7-5 in the 1st round in at the Australian Open back in 2021.
Highlights Liudmila Samsonova vs Paula Badosa Gibert – Australian Open 09-February-2021
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), Ludmilla will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-3 6-1 to Kenin in the 1st round on the 14th of February.
Samsonova has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2023, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Ludmilla’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Abu Dhabi.
Talking about her overall career, Samsonova has an overall 240-133 record. She has a positive 79-44 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2019. See her history.
Paula Badosa Gibert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-18 | 26-11 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-9 | 6-4 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 20-13 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-17 | 19-9 | 17-3 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-9 | 7-6 | 6-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Paula will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 7-6(6) 6-3 to Haddad Maia in the 1st round on the 14th of February.
The Spaniard has an overall 4-1 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.
In terms of her career, Paula has an overall 316-173 record. She has a positive 122-66 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Danylo KalenichenkoKalenichenko – Patrik RiklRikl (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NovakNovak – Pavel NejedlyNejedly (6-4 4-6 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter NagyNagy – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez – Patrik Niklas-SalminenNiklas-Salminen (6-2 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matej SabanovSabanov – Isa MammetgulyyevMammetgulyyev (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Milan DrinicDrinic – Marcell BartakovicsBartakovics (6-2 1-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mate DelicDelic – Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy (6-2 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Patrik BrydolfBrydolf (6-2 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ErlerErler – David SzintaiSzintai (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas KleinKlein – Ondrej KrstevKrstev (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Markus ErikssonEriksson – Denys KlokKlok (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Julia GrabherGrabher – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Alize CornetCornet (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ipek OzOz – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Bernarda PeraPera (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Shelby RogersRogers (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Ana BogdanBogdan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra MarticMartic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-3) – H2H and prediction