Jessica Pegula and Liudmila Samsonova will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 3 sets.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.58
Liudmila Samsonova -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Liudmila Samsonova
This will be the 5th time that Jessica Pegula and Liudmila Samsonova fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Pegula won 6-1 6-0 in the final in Montreal back in 2023.
Highlights Jessica Pegula vs Liudmila Samsonova – Montreal 13-August-2023
Jessica Pegula
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53-23 | 35-12 | 11-5 | 3-4 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-16 | 29-9 | 4-2 | 0-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-18 | 45-12 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-21 | 28-15 | 11-4 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-19 | 29-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 5, Jessica will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 4-6 6-1 6-1 to Alexandrova in the quarter on the 13th of February.
Pegula has an aggregate 7-3 win-loss record in 2025, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Adelaide.
Talking about her overall career, Jessica has an overall 440-249 record. She has a positive 258-129 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See her history.
Liudmila Samsonova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-23 | 15-15 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 25, Samsonova got to the 2nd round after defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Ludmilla had a good straight sets win against Pavlyuchenkova (6-2 6-2). During the match Samsonova scored 56 points vs Pavlyuchenkova’s 37. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Samsonova fired 6 aces and she was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Liudmila Samsonova conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 66% of her first serves in, win 84% (26/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Samsonova broke Pavlyuchenkova 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Samsonova’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Samsonova has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023 and 2024. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- David PichlerPichler – Maxime TchoutakianTchoutakian (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Maxim RatniukRatniuk (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ljubomir CelebicCelebic – Martins PodzusPodzus (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Maxim KrapivinKrapivin (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pierre FaivreFaivre – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Sebastian PrechtelPrechtel (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Kenneth RaismaRaisma (7-5 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Stefan MicovMicov (2-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Clara TausonTauson – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Alycia ParksParks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eva LysLys – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-3) – H2H and prediction