Marketa Vondrousova trashes Liudmila Samsonova 6-2 6-2 in the 3rd round in Dubai on Wednesday after playing a great match to play Sorana Cirstea in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. This run will match her best achievement in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:15
At the end of the match, Vondrousova scored 59 points vs. Ludmilla’s 41.
Vondrousova
Marketa served extremely well to win 75% of the points (27/36) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 44% points (7/16) on her second serve. Vondrousova was pretty effective at converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9).
Samsonova
On the other side, Ludmilla was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). However, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Vondrousova and Samsonova is 2-1 for Marketa.
Draw and next match H2H: Marketa Vondrousova vs. Sorana Cirstea – stats
Vondrousova will play Cirstea in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Marketa Vondrousova and Sorana Cirstea fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Cirstea won 7-63 6-4 in the 4th round in Miami back in 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Vondrousova had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Liudmila Samsonova in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, Marketa found the way to come back to break Samsonova 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Ludmilla had no answers in the last 7 games of the set when the scoreline went from 0-2 to 6-2.
Vondrousova converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Samsonova converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (2-1 40-A) and the 4th game (2-1 30-40).
They played 61 points. The Czech was the winner of the set after clinching 7 more points than the Russian (34-27). The Czech dropped 12 points on serve (18-12). Regarding the other side of the net, Samsonova conceded 16 points on serve (15-16).
The Czech in this set was too strong for the Russian and finally she won 6-2 after breaking Ludmilla in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Marketa converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Marketa didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 39 points. Marketa was the winner of the set after clinching 11 points more than Ludmilla (25-14). The Czech conceded 6 points on serve (16-6). On the losing side, Samsonova conceded 9 points on serve (8-9).
Tennis Scores in Dubai
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- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Magdalena FrechFrech (7-65 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Qinwen ZhengZheng (5-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-1) – H2H details and stats
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