Liudmila Samsonova and Tatjana Maria will play each other in the 1st round of the Zhengzhou Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on Grandstand. 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 2 sets.
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.24
Tatjana Maria -> 4.1
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Tatjana Maria
This will be the 3rd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Tatjana Maria fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Samsonova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Samsonova won 6-0 6-2
in the 1st round in Tokyo back in September 2023.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. 16, Ludmilla will start her run in Zhengzhou after she played her last match in Beijing where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Swiatek in the final on the 8th of October.
Ludmilla has a compiled 32-22 win-loss record in 2023, 24-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Ludmilla’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Abu Dhabi, Montreal and Beijing.
Talking about her overall career, Samsonova has an overall 266-150 record. She has a positive 97-53 record on hard.
Previously in Zhengzhou
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tatjana Maria
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-31 | 14-16 | 5-10 | 1-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-31 | 24-17 | 12-8 | 0-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-29 | 17-12 | 14-6 | 6-6 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-15 | 3-8 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-8 | 5-8 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 55, the German will start her run in Zhengzhou after she played her last match in Beijing where she lost 7-5 6-0 to Rybakina in the 2nd round on the 3rd of October.
Maria has an overall 43-29 win-loss record in 2023, 24-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title the W40 Pune where she overcame Nigina Abduraimova in the final 6-1 6-1 and in Bogota where she beat Peyton Stearns in the final 6-3 2-6 6-4 and the Barranquilla where she overcame Fiona Ferro in the final 6-1 6-2.
In terms of her career, Tatjana has an overall 583-447 record. She has a positive 187-179 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou
- Donna VekicVekic – Nao HibinoHibino (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin RoutliffeDabrowski/Erin Routliffe – Tereza Mihalikova/Yifan XuMihalikova/Yifan Xu (6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Hanyu GuoGuo (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Ellen PerezPerez (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Kateryna VolodkoVolodko (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Petra MarticMartic – Magda LinetteLinette (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Tatjana MariaMaria (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lin ZhuZhu – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Donna VekicVekic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-1) – H2H and prediction