Liudmila Samsonova ousts Caty McNally 7-6(8) 6-4 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells on Saturday. Samsonova will seek to keep on going in this event against Daria Kasatkina in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 47 minutes. Her best result in this event was reaching the 4th round in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ludmilla scored 71 points vs. McNally’s 66.
Samsonova
Samsonova served pretty well to win 85% of the points (28/33) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 39% points (12/31) on her second serve. Ludmilla was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she procured (4/8).
McNally
On the other side, the American was pretty effective at converting 75% of the break points that she procured points (3/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this encounter, the head to head between Samsonova and McNally is 1-0 for Ludmilla.
Draw and next match H2H: Liudmila Samsonova vs. Daria Kasatkina – stats
Samsonova will square off with Kasatkina in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Liudmila Samsonova and Daria Kasatkina since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Samsonova had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Caty McNally in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Ludmilla was not done to come back to break McNally in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 4th (3-1) game before winning the set (7-6).
Ludmilla converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). In addition on the other side, Caty converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40) and the 5th game (1-3 0-40 and 15-40).
They played 93 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Russian won this set even if she scored less points 7 than McNally (43-50). The Russian lost 23 points on serve (26-23). on the other side of the court, Caty conceded 17 points on serve (27-17).
The Russian won the set after she broke McNally in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (5-4) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th
(3-3) game. Anyhow, the Russian refused to give way to win the set 6-4.Ludmilla converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40) and the 9th game (4-4 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, McNally was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (2-3 15-40).
They contested 44 points. Samsonova conquered the set after winning 10 points more than McNally (27-17). Samsonova lost 7 points on serve (17-7). Regarding the other side of the net, McNally conceded 10 points on serve (10-10).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Alycia ParksParks (6-1 6-1)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (5-7 7-65 6-3)
- Elise MertensMertens – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (6-4 7-5)
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Caty McNallyMcNally (7-68 6-4)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (3-6 6-1 7-63)
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-0 6-3)
- Madison KeysKeys – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-3 6-0)
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 7-5)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Mccartney KesslerKessler (7-64 6-3)
- Cori GauffGauff – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-4 3-6 7-64)
- Sonay KartalKartal – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (6-2 6-1)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Sofia KeninKenin (3-6 7-5 6-4)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Iva JovicJovic (7-63 1-6 6-3)
- Belinda BencicBencic – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-4 6-73 6-1)
- Donna VekicVekic – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (6-3 6-3)
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-2)
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-3 6-1)
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (7-5 6-4)
- Xinyu WangWang – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 6-4)
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-72 6-3 6-0)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-1 6-78 6-3)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (6-1 6-3)
- Lulu SunSun – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-1 6-4)
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (5-7 6-2 6-4)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-3)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-0)
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Eva LysLys (7-63 6-4)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Suzan LamensLamens (6-3 6-3)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-3 6-4)
- Clara TausonTauson – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (7-63 7-5)
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria SakkariSakkari (3-5) – H2H details and stats
- Belinda BencicBencic – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Donna VekicVekic (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Madison KeysKeys (2-3) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Clara TausonTauson – (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Lulu SunSun (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Caroline DolehideDolehide (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-1) – H2H details and stats