Liudmila Samsonova and Laura Siegemund will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Zhengzhou Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Center Court. 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 -> 1.26
Laura Siegemund -> 3.86
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Laura Siegemund
This will be the 3rd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Laura Siegemund clash 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 squared off, Samsonova won 6-2 6-1 in the 2nd round in Cleveland back in 2022.
Liudmila Samsonova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-10 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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 reached the 2nd round after beating Tatjana Maria 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Samsonova had a good straight sets win against Maria (6-3 6-3). During the match, Samsonova scored 62 points vs Maria’s 40. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Samsonova blasted 6 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Liudmila Samsonova was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 80% (20/25) of her 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Samsonova broke Maria 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Samsonova has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 64% of her matches (267-150). 25-14 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Samsonova has a composed98-53 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
The Russian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Abu Dhabi, Montreal and Beijing.
The Russian has an aggregate 33-22 win-loss record in 2023, 25-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Zhengzhou
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Laura Siegemund
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-9 | 7-5 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-17 | 23-13 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-15 | 3-5 | 15-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-14 | 7-7 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-9 | 11-6 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 113, Siegemund reached the 2nd round after beating Meiling Wang 6-1 6-1, Diana Shnaider 6-2 3-0 ret. and Lin Zhu 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The German had a good straight sets win against Zhu (6-2 6-3). During the match Siegemund scored 71 points vs Zhu’s 56. The German was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Siegemund wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Laura Siegemund lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Siegemund put 76% of her first serves in, winning 61% (33/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Siegemund broke Zhu 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
The German’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Warsaw.
Laura has an aggregate 27-16 win-loss record in 2023, 20-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Samsonova | Siegemund |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 42 |
| Pts | 62-40 | 181-122 |
| Total Points | 102 | 303 |
| Winners | 20 | 75 |
| %Winners | 32% | 41% |
Samsonova played 1 match while Siegemund competed in 3 matches. Siegemund started her run from the qualifications while Samsonova had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Samsonova has played 5 set(s) less than Siegemund (2 vs 7). Therefore, Samsonova played 24 games less than Siegemund. The Russian scored 20 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Laura made 75 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Samsonova | Siegemund |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 0.7 |
| 1st in | 25/50 | 114/152 |
| %1st in | 50% | 75% |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 75/114 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 17/38 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 45% |
Samsonova scored 6 aces . Siegemund fired 2 aces (0.7 per match). Samsonova won 80% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Siegemund won 66% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Samsonova | Siegemund |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 16 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 16/32 |
| % Converted | 63% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 13 |
| Saved | 0 | 9 |
| % Saved | 0% | 69% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 |
The Russian broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Russian lost her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. The German broke her opponents 16 times with a 50% conversion rate. The German conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 69% of the break points that she conceded.
| Samsonova | |||
| R1 Maria |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-40 | 62-40 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/50 | 25/50 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 13/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Siegemund | |||||
| Q1 Wang |
Q3 Shnaider |
R1 Zhu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 6-2 3-0 ret. | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 11 | 17 | 42 | |
| pts | 61-36 | 49-30 | 71-56 | 181-122 | |
| Total points | 97 | 79 | 127 | 303 | |
| Winners | 29 | 13 | 33 | 75 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 27% | 46% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 40/55 | 20/26 | 54/71 | 114/152 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 77% | 76% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 29/40 | 13/20 | 33/54 | 75/114 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 65% | 61% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/15 | 2/6 | 8/17 | 17/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 33% | 47% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 6/14 | 5/11 | 16/32 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 43% | 45% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 1/3 | 5/7 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 33% | 71% | 204% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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