Liudmila Samsonova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will face off in the 2^nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on Court 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 1.88
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.93

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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

This will be the 2^nd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pavlyuchenkova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Pavlyuchenkova won 4-6 7-5 7-5 in the 2^nd round in at the French Open back in 2023.

Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Liudmila Samsonova – French Open 31-May-2023

Liudmila Samsonova

Ranked no. 15, Ludmilla got to the 2^nd round after beating Viktoriya Tomova 7-6² 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Samsonova had a good straight sets win against Tomova (7-6² 6-3). During the match, Samsonova scored 78 points vs Tomova’s 65. Ludmilla was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Samsonova made 13 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Liudmila Samsonova was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (31/37) of her 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Ludmilla broke Tomova twice after converting 25% of her break points (2/8).

Samsonova has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of her matches (272-157). 4-5 on hard in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Samsonova has a composed102-59 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

Samsonova’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Abu Dhabi.

Samsonova has an aggregate 4-5 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Ranked no. 24, Anastasia got to the 2^nd round after defeating Marie Bouzkova 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Bouzkova (6-4 6-3). During the match Pavlyuchenkova scored 66 points vs Bouzkova’s 55. Pavlyuchenkova was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Pavlyuchenkova made 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Pavlyuchenkova put 60% of her first serves in, winning 78% (28/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Bouzkova 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).

Pavlyuchenkova’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Linz and Doha.

Pavlyuchenkova has a compiled 13-5 win-loss record in 2024, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2010. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Samsonova	Pavlyuchenkova
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	19
Pts	78-65	66-55
Total Points	143	121
Winners	31	28
%Winners	40%	42%

Both Samsonova and Pavlyuchenkova played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Samsonova and Pavlyuchenkova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Samsonova played 3 games more than Pavlyuchenkova. Ludmilla scored 31 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Anastasia managed to score 28 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Samsonova	Pavlyuchenkova
Aces	13	2
Avg per match	13	2
1st in	37/71	36/60
%1st in	52%	60%
1st pts	31/37	28/36
%1st pts	84%	78%
2nd pts	18/34	12/24
%2nd pts	53%	50%

Samsonova scored 13 aces . Pavlyuchenkova managed to score 2 aces . Samsonova won 84% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Pavlyuchenkova won 78% of the points on 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	Pavlyuchenkova
Won	2	3
Converted	2/8	3/8
% Converted	25%	38%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3	3
% Saved	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Samsonova broke her opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Ludmilla conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. Pavlyuchenkova broke her opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.

Samsonova
	R1 Tomova	Total
Score	7-62 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	78-65	78-65
Total points	143	143
Winners	31	31
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	13	13
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	37/71	37/71
% 1st in	52%	52%
1st pts	31/37	31/37
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	18/34	18/34
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/8	2/8
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Pavlyuchenkova
	R1 Bouzkova	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	66-55	66-55
Total points	121	121
Winners	28	28
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	36/60	36/60
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	28/36	28/36
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	12/24	12/24
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/8	3/8
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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