Jessica Pegula and Liudmila Samsonova will face off in the 2nd round of the Berlin Ladies Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 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.

As per the initial odds, Jessica Pegula is the pick to win this match.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.533
Liudmila Samsonova -> 2.5

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Prediction and head to head Jessica Pegula vs. Liudmila Samsonova

This will be the 6th time that Jessica Pegula and Liudmila Samsonova square off. The head to head is 4-1 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), but Samsonova leads 1-0 on grass.

The last time that they squared off, Pegula won 6-0 6-4 in the 2nd round in Dubai back in February 2025.

Highlights Jessica Pegula vs Liudmila Samsonova – Dubai 18-February-2025

Jessica Pegula

Jessica Pegula

31 - 11win/loss

Hard
20-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
11-5
Rank
6
High
3
LWLWLWWWWL
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. 3 (career-high), Pegula will start her run in Berlin after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 3-6 6-4 6-4 to Boisson in the 4th round on the 2nd of June.

Jessica has an aggregate 31-11 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on grass.

Her best result of the year was winning the title in Austin where she defeated Mccartney Kessler in the final 7-5 6-2 and in Charleston where she overcame Sofia Kenin in the final 6-3 7-5.

Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 464-257 record. She has a positive 29-21 record on grass.

Previously in Berlin

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2024. See her history.

Berlin
Pegula's Record

Liudmila Samsonova

Liudmila Samsonova

18 - 14win/loss

Hard
9-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
8-5
Grass
1-1
Rank
17
High
12
LWLWWLLWLW
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. 20, Ludmilla got to the 2nd round after defeating Naomi Osaka 3-6 7-6(3) 6-4.

In the 1st round against Osaka, Ludmilla recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-63 6-4). During the match Samsonova and Osaka scored the same amount of points (107). However, the world no. 3 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Samsonova was pretty aggressive to blast 53 winners.

About the serving games, Samsonova blasted 14 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Liudmila Samsonova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Samsonova put 60% of her first serves in, winning 78% (53/68) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (18/45) on the 2nd serve. Samsonova broke Osaka 3 times after converting 43% of her break points (3/7).

Samsonova’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Strasbourg.

Ludmilla has an overall 18-14 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Berlin

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2021. See her history.

Berlin
Samsonova's Record

Tennis Scores in Berlin

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