Liudmila Samsonova and Veronika Kudermetova will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Korea Open for the 7^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 am on Centre Court. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Liudmila Samsonova who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Liudmila Samsonova is the pick to win this match.
Liudmila Samsonova -> 1.45
Veronika Kudermetova -> 2.76

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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Veronika Kudermetova

This will be the 7^th time that Liudmila Samsonova and Veronika Kudermetova fight against each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Kudermetova won 3-6 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in Berlin back in June 2024.

Liudmila Samsonova

Ranked no. 15, Ludmilla will start her run in Seoul after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-4 6-1 to Swiatek in the 4^th round on the 2^nd of September.

Samsonova has an overall 26-20 win-loss record in 2024, 12-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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.

Talking about her overall career, The Russian has an overall 294-172 record. She has a positive 110-66 record on hard.

Previously in Seoul

Ludmilla has never competed in this tournament before.

Veronika Kudermetova

Ranked no. 44, the Russian reached the 2^nd round after beating Shuai Zhang 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Kudermetova had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-4 6-3). During the match Kudermetova scored 67 points vs Zhang’s 53. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 15 winners.

About the serving games, Kudermetova struck 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Veronika Kudermetova lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 48% of her first serves in, winning 56% (15/27) of the points behind her 1st serve and 72% (21/29) on the 2nd serve. Veronika broke Zhang 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Veronika has an aggregate 14-20 win-loss record in 2024, 6-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Seoul

• Manuel Pena LopezPena Lopez – Gabriel SchmidtSchmidt (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mick VeldheerVeldheer – Luca GiacominiGiacomini (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bruno Sant’AnnaSant’Anna – Luca StaeheliStaeheli (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Philipp SchrollSchroll (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Petr NouzaNouza (7-6⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Yue YuanYuan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Heather WatsonWatson – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (4-2) – H2H and prediction