Barbora Krejcikova and Liudmila Samsonova will clash against each other in the quarter of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:00 pm on Stadium Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.9
Barbora Krejcikova -> 1.909

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Prediction and head to head Barbora Krejcikova vs. Liudmila Samsonova

This will be the 3^rd time that Barbora Krejcikova and Liudmila Samsonova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Krejcikova won 6-2 6-0 in the 1^st round in Stuttgart back in 2023.

Highlights Barbora Krejcikova vs Liudmila Samsonova – Stuttgart 18-April-2023

Barbora Krejcikova

Ranked no. 12, Barbora got to the quarter after beating Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-2 1-0 ret..

In the 2^nd round against Sorribes Tormo, Krejcikova had a free pass after Sorribes Tormo retired on a 6-2 1-0 . scoreline.

Krejcikova has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of her matches (260-165). 5-2 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Krejcikova has an aggregate 109-77 match record in the last years on hard.

The Czech has an overall 5-2 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Abu Dhabi

Liudmila Samsonova

Ranked no. 15, the Russian reached the quarter after beating Lesya Tsurenko 6-0 6-1 and Anhelina Kalinina 6-1 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Kalinina (6-1 6-3). During the match Samsonova scored 59 points vs Kalinina’s 36. Ludmilla was quite aggressive to blast 14 winners.

About the serving games, Samsonova blasted 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Liudmila Samsonova was exceptionally effective on serve to win 88% (14/16) of her 1st serve and 58% (19/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Samsonova broke Kalinina 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ludmilla hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 66% of the points she played.

Samsonova has an overall 2-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Abu Dhabi

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2023. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Krejcikova	Samsonova
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	3	4
Tot Games	9	29
Pts	32-17	113-59
Total Points	49	172
Winners	15	32
%Winners	47%	28%

Krejcikova played 1 match while Samsonova competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Krejcikova has played 1 set(s) less than Samsonova (3 vs 4). Therefore, Krejcikova played 20 games less than Samsonova. Krejcikova scored 15 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian bagged 32 winners (28%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Krejcikova	Samsonova
Aces	1	9
Avg per match	1	4.5
1st in	17/22	38/83
%1st in	77%	46%
1st pts	15/17	32/38
%1st pts	88%	84%
2nd pts	2/5	26/45
%2nd pts	40%	58%

Krejcikova recorded 1 ace . Samsonova also struck 9 aces (4.5 per match). Krejcikova won 88% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Samsonova won 84% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Krejcikova	Samsonova
Won	3	11
Converted	3/3	11/19
% Converted	100%	58%
Conceded	0	5
Saved	0	4
% Saved	0%	80%
Times Broken	0	1

Krejcikova broke her opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Krejcikova had a solid display on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Russian broke her opponents 11 times with a 58% conversion rate. Samsonova conceded her serve once and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded.

Krejcikova
	R2 Sorribes Tormo	Total
Score	6-2 1-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	9	9
pts	32-17	32-17
Total points	49	49
Winners	15	15
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	17/22	17/22
% 1st in	77%	77%
1st pts	15/17	15/17
% 1st pts	88%	88%
2nd pts	2/5	2/5
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/3	3/3
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Samsonova
	R1 Tsurenko	R2 Kalinina	Total
Score	6-0 6-1	6-1 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	13	16	29
pts	54-23	59-36	113-59
Total points	77	95	172
Winners	18	14	32
%Winners	33%	24%	28%
SERVE
Aces	4	5	9
Double Faults	2	4	6
1st in	22/34	16/49	38/83
% 1st in	65%	33%	46%
1st pts	18/22	14/16	32/38
% 1st pts	82%	88%	84%
2nd pts	7/12	19/33	26/45
% 2nd pts	58%	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	6	5	11
Converted	6/9	5/10	11/19
Converted %	67%	50%	58%
Conceded	1	4	5
Saved	1/1	3/4	4
Saved %	100%	75%	175%
Times Broken	0	1	1

Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi

• Laurynas GrigelisGrigelis – Darian KingKing (4-6 6-2 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (1-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marcel GranollersGranollers – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Cristina BucsaBucsa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-2) – H2H and prediction