Liudmila Samsonova and Ekaterina Alexandrova will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Libema Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 2:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.76
Ekaterina Alexandrova -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
This will be the 3rd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Ekaterina Alexandrova play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on grass.
The last time that they squared off, Alexandrova won 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Tokyo back in 2023.
Highlights Ekaterina Alexandrova vs Liudmila Samsonova – Tokyo 27-September-2023
Liudmila Samsonova
13 - 13win/loss
27
12
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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. 15, the Russian reached the semifinal after beating Alison Van Uytvanck 6-1 6-3, Celine Naef 7-5 6-2 and Greetje Minnen 6-4 7-5.
In the quarter, Ludmilla had a good straight sets win against Minnen (6-4 7-5). During the match, Samsonova scored 74 points vs Minnen’s 68. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Samsonova scored 3 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 55% of her first serves in, winning 74% (31/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Ludmilla broke Minnen 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Samsonova has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of her matches (281-165). 3-0 on grass in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Samsonova has a compiled23-11 match record in the last 9 years on grass.
Ludmilla’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Abu Dhabi and Strasbourg.
Samsonova has a composed 13-13 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Ekaterina Alexandrova
16 - 14win/loss
28
15
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 26-24 | 17-13 | 1-7 | 3-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 33-21 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 35-18 | 12-10 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 26-23 | 10-9 | 6-5 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 20-12 | 9-4 | 4-5 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 16, the Russian reached the semifinal after defeating Arina Rodionova 6-3 6-4, Emina Bektas 7-5 6-4 and Robin Montgomery 6-4 6-3.
In the quarter, Ekaterina had a good straight sets win against Montgomery (6-4 6-3). During the match Alexandrova scored 73 points vs Montgomery’s 61. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Alexandrova struck 5 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ekaterina Alexandrova lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Alexandrova put 55% of her first serves in, winning 67% (24/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the 2nd serve. Ekaterina broke Montgomery 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ekaterina hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
Ekaterina’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Linz.
Ekaterina has an overall 16-14 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Previously, she won this tournament twice in 2022 and 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Samsonova | Alexandrova |
---|---|---|
Match played | 3 | 3 |
Tot Set | 6 | 6 |
Tot Games | 58 | 60 |
Pts | 212-167 | 211-179 |
Total Points | 379 | 390 |
Winners | 81 | 83 |
%Winners | 38% | 39% |
Both Samsonova and Alexandrova played 3 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Samsonova and Alexandrova have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Samsonova played 2 games less than Alexandrova. Ludmilla scored 81 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Alexandrova blasted 83 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Samsonova | Alexandrova |
---|---|---|
Aces | 11 | 23 |
Avg per match | 3.7 | 7.7 |
1st in | 108/201 | 115/188 |
%1st in | 54% | 61% |
1st pts | 81/108 | 83/115 |
%1st pts | 75% | 72% |
2nd pts | 49/93 | 41/73 |
%2nd pts | 53% | 56% |
Samsonova bagged 11 aces (3.7 per match). Alexandrova recorded 23 aces (7.7 per match). Samsonova won 75% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Alexandrova won 72% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Samsonova | Alexandrova |
---|---|---|
Won | 13 | 11 |
Converted | 13/20 | 11/23 |
% Converted | 65% | 48% |
Conceded | 20 | 13 |
Saved | 16 | 9 |
% Saved | 80% | 69% |
Times Broken | 4 | 4 |
The Russian broke her opponents 13 times with a 65% conversion rate. Samsonova lost her serve 4 times and she saved 80% of the break points that she conceded. Ekaterina broke her opponents 11 times with a 48% conversion rate. Alexandrova conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 69% of the break points that she conceded.
Samsonova | |||||
R1 Van Uytvanck |
R2 Naef |
1/4 Minnen |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-1 6-3 | 7-5 6-2 | 6-4 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 20 | 22 | 58 | |
pts | 65-46 | 73-53 | 74-68 | 212-167 | |
Total points | 111 | 126 | 142 | 379 | |
Winners | 21 | 29 | 31 | 81 | |
%Winners | 32% | 40% | 42% | 38% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | |
1st in | 32/68 | 34/57 | 42/76 | 108/201 | |
% 1st in | 47% | 60% | 55% | 54% | |
1st pts | 21/32 | 29/34 | 31/42 | 81/108 | |
% 1st pts | 66% | 85% | 74% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 20/36 | 12/23 | 17/34 | 49/93 | |
% 2nd pts | 56% | 52% | 50% | 53% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | |
Converted | 5/6 | 4/9 | 4/5 | 13/20 | |
Converted % | 83% | 44% | 80% | 65% | |
Conceded | 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 | |
Saved | 7/8 | 6/7 | 3/5 | 16 | |
Saved % | 88% | 86% | 60% | 78% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Alexandrova | |||||
R1 Rodionova |
R2 Bektas |
1/4 Montgomery |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 6-4 | 7-5 6-4 | 6-4 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 22 | 19 | 60 | |
pts | 67-57 | 71-61 | 73-61 | 211-179 | |
Total points | 124 | 132 | 134 | 390 | |
Winners | 26 | 33 | 24 | 83 | |
%Winners | 39% | 46% | 33% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 6 | 12 | 5 | 23 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
1st in | 36/59 | 43/64 | 36/65 | 115/188 | |
% 1st in | 61% | 67% | 55% | 61% | |
1st pts | 26/36 | 33/43 | 24/36 | 83/115 | |
% 1st pts | 72% | 77% | 67% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 13/23 | 11/21 | 17/29 | 41/73 | |
% 2nd pts | 57% | 52% | 59% | 56% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 4/11 | 4/5 | 11/23 | |
Converted % | 43% | 36% | 80% | 48% | |
Conceded | 3 | 8 | 2 | 13 | |
Saved | 2/3 | 6/8 | 1/2 | 9 | |
Saved % | 67% | 75% | 50% | 64% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Head 2 Head
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