Liudmila Samsonova and Qinwen Zheng will face off in the 3rd round of the Miami Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 11:00 am on BUTCH BUCHHOLZ. 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 -> 1.77
Qinwen Zheng -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Qinwen Zheng
This will be the 4th time that Liudmila Samsonova and Qinwen Zheng face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Samsonova (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Samsonova won 6-4 1-6 6-4 in the semifinal in Abu Dhabi back in February 2023.
Highlights Liudmila Samsonova vs Qinwen Zheng – Abu Dhabi 11-February-2023
Liudmila Samsonova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-15 | 9-8 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 15, Samsonova reached the 3rd round after defeating Viktorija Golubic 6-1 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Ludmilla had a good straight sets win against Golubic (6-1 6-1). During the match, Samsonova scored 53 points vs Golubic’s 23. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Samsonova struck 6 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Liudmila Samsonova was extremely efficient on serve to win 90% (18/20) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Ludmilla broke Golubic 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).
Samsonova has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 64% of her matches (242-135). 8-7 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Samsonova has an aggregate81-46 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Ludmilla’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Abu Dhabi.
Ludmilla has a compiled 8-7 win-loss record in 2023, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Qinwen Zheng
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-11 | 7-5 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-18 | 31-10 | 17-4 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-19 | 23-11 | 11-4 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-19 | 27-12 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-11 | 7-1 | 16-6 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 23 (career-high), Zheng got to the 3rd round after beating Irina-Camelia Begu 2-6 6-1 6-1.
In the 2nd round against Begu, The Chinese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 6-1). During the match Zheng scored 76 points vs Begu’s 64. Zheng was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Zheng scored 4 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Qinwen Zheng lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 45% of her first serves in, winning 76% (26/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (21/42) on the 2nd serve. Qinwen broke Begu 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
The Chinese’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Abu Dhabi.
Zheng has a composed 10-5 win-loss record in 2023, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Samsonova | Zheng |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 22 |
| Pts | 53-23 | 76-64 |
| Total Points | 76 | 140 |
| Winners | 18 | 26 |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% |
Both Samsonova and Zheng played 1 match. At the moment, Qinwen Zheng surrendered 1 set while Liudmila Samsonova hasn’t conceded a set so far. Samsonova has played 1 set(s) less than Zheng (2 vs 3). Therefore, Samsonova played 8 games less than Zheng. Ludmilla scored 18 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Qinwen struck 26 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Samsonova | Zheng |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 4 |
| 1st in | 20/33 | 34/76 |
| %1st in | 61% | 45% |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 26/34 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 21/42 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 50% |
Samsonova made 6 aces . Zheng fired 4 aces . Samsonova won 90% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Zheng won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Samsonova | Zheng |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 55% | 63% |
| Conceded | 1 | 10 |
| Saved | 0 | 8 |
| % Saved | 0% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Ludmilla broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Ludmilla conceded her serve once and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Qinwen conceded her serve twice and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded.
| Samsonova | |||
| R2 Golubic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 53-23 | 53-23 | |
| Total points | 76 | 76 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 20/33 | 20/33 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 18/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Zheng | |||
| R2 Begu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-64 | 76-64 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 34/76 | 34/76 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 45% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/42 | 21/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Maria SakkariSakkari (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
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- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Maria SakkariSakkari (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Lin ZhuZhu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Xinyu WangWang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
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