Liudmila Samsonova and Diana Shnaider will fight against each other in the quarter of the National Bank Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 7:00 pm on Centre 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 -> 1.74
Diana Shnaider -> 2.1

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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Diana Shnaider

This will be the 2^nd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Diana Shnaider play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shnaider (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Shnaider won 6-1 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Rome back in May 2024.

Liudmila Samsonova

Ranked no. 13, the Russian reached the quarter after beating Moyuka Uchijima 6-4 6-2 and Elise Mertens 6-2 6-4.

In the 3^rd round, Samsonova had a good straight sets win against Mertens (6-2 6-4). During the match, Samsonova scored 71 points vs Mertens’s 60. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Samsonova scored 4 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (26/35) of her 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Samsonova broke Mertens 3 times after converting 33% of her break points (3/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ludmilla hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points she played.

Samsonova has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of her matches (288-169). 6-9 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Samsonova has an aggregate104-63 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.

Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Hertogenbosch where she beat Bianca Vanessa Andreescu in the final 4-6 6-3 7-5.

The Russian has a compiled 20-17 win-loss record in 2024, 6-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Montreal

Diana Shnaider

Ranked no. 24, the Russian reached the quarter after beating Harriet Dart 6-3 3-6 7-6(2), Magdalena Frech 2-6 6-3 7-6(5) and Cori Gauff 6-4 6-1.

In the 3^rd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Gauff (6-4 6-1). During the match Shnaider scored 64 points vs Gauff’s 47. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Shnaider scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Diana Shnaider was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Diana broke Gauff 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points she played.

Her best result of the year was winning the title in Hua Hin where she overcame Lin Zhu in the final 6-3 2-6 6-1 and the Paris where she beat Emma Navarro in the final 6-2 3-6 6-4 and in Bad Homburg where she defeated Donna Vekic in the final 6-3 2-6 6-3 and in Budapest where she beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the final 6-4 6-4.

Shnaider has an overall 40-15 win-loss record in 2024, 16-7 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Montreal

The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Samsonova	Shnaider
Match played	2	3
Tot Set	4	8
Tot Games	36	78
Pts	139-106	274-248
Total Points	245	522
Winners	44	107
%Winners	32%	39%

Samsonova played 2 matches while Shnaider competed in 3 matches. At the moment, Diana Shnaider surrendered 2 sets while Liudmila Samsonova hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Samsonova has played 4 set(s) less than Shnaider (4 vs 8). Therefore, Samsonova played 42 games less than Shnaider. The Russian scored 44 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Diana bagged 107 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Samsonova	Shnaider
Aces	12	6
Avg per match	6	2
1st in	57/133	151/247
%1st in	43%	61%
1st pts	44/57	107/151
%1st pts	77%	71%
2nd pts	46/76	46/96
%2nd pts	61%	48%

Samsonova fired 12 aces (6 per match). Shnaider blasted 6 aces (2 per match). Samsonova won 77% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Shnaider won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Samsonova	Shnaider
Won	6	12
Converted	6/16	12/36
% Converted	38%	33%
Conceded	9	20
Saved	9	10
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	10

The Russian broke her opponents 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. Samsonova pretty effective on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 9 break points. The Russian broke her opponents 12 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve 10 times and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded.

Samsonova
	R2 Uchijima	R3 Mertens	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	18	18	36
pts	68-46	71-60	139-106
Total points	114	131	245
Winners	18	26	44
%Winners	26%	37%	32%
SERVE
Aces	8	4	12
Double Faults	7	7	14
1st in	22/60	35/73	57/133
% 1st in	37%	48%	43%
1st pts	18/22	26/35	44/57
% 1st pts	82%	74%	77%
2nd pts	25/38	21/38	46/76
% 2nd pts	66%	55%	61%
Breaks
Won	3	3	6
Converted	3/7	3/9	6/16
Converted %	43%	33%	38%
Conceded	3	6	9
Saved	3/3	6/6	9
Saved %	100%	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Shnaider
	R1 Dart	R2 Frech	R3 Gauff	Total
Score	6-3 3-6 7-62	2-6 6-3 7-65	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	3	3	2	8
Tot Games	31	30	17	78
pts	113-109	97-92	64-47	274-248
Total points	222	189	111	522
Winners	38	43	26	107
%Winners	34%	44%	41%	39%
SERVE
Aces	4	1	1	6
Double Faults	7	4	4	15
1st in	56/93	63/95	32/59	151/247
% 1st in	60%	66%	54%	61%
1st pts	38/56	43/63	26/32	107/151
% 1st pts	68%	68%	81%	71%
2nd pts	14/37	18/32	14/27	46/96
% 2nd pts	38%	56%	52%	48%
Breaks
Won	6	3	3	12
Converted	6/23	3/5	3/8	12/36
Converted %	26%	60%	38%	33%
Conceded	9	10	1	20
Saved	3/9	6/10	1/1	10
Saved %	33%	60%	100%	97%
Times Broken	6	4	0	10

Tennis Scores in Toronto

• Caroline Dolehide/Desirae KrawczykDolehide/Desirae Krawczyk – Giuliana Olmos/Jessica PegulaOlmos/Jessica Pegula (7-6⁵ 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Antonio MassaraMassara – Alessandro PetronePetrone (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Juan Pablo PazPablo Paz – Alessandro CeppelliniCeppellini (7-6³ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mirko CutuliCutuli – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (7-6⁶ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Jessica PegulaPegula – Peyton StearnsStearns (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emma NavarroNavarro – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (4-2) – H2H and prediction