Liudmila Samsonova and Yafan Wang will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Tennis in the Land for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on STADIUM. In the following lines 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 -> 1.32
Yafan Wang -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Yafan Wang

There is no head to head record between Liudmila Samsonova and Yafan Wang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Liudmila Samsonova

Ranked no. 19, Ludmilla reached the 2^nd round after beating Caroline Dolehide 6-4 7-6(2).

In the 1^st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Dolehide (6-4 7-6²). During the match, Samsonova scored 76 points vs Dolehide’s 65. Samsonova was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Samsonova bagged 5 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Liudmila Samsonova was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of her 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. Samsonova broke Dolehide 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).

Samsonova has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (319-193). 10-10 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Samsonova has an aggregate 120-79 record in the last years on hard.

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

The Russian has a compiled 25-18 win-loss record in 2025, 10-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cleveland

Yafan Wang

Ranked no. 202, Wang got to the 2^nd round after beating Aleksandra Krunic 7-5 6-0, Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 1-6 6-0 6-4 and Peyton Stearns 6-4 3-6 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Chinese defeated Stearns (6-4 3-6 6-3).During the match Wang scored less points (2) than Stearns. In fact, the world no. 19 won 81 points vs Stearns’s. That means that Wang was more focused during the important points. Yafan was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Talking about serving, Wang struck 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Yafan Wang was very effective on serve to win 73% (37/51) of her 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Yafan broke Stearns twice after converting 40% of her break points (2/5).

The Chinese has a compiled 5-4 win-loss record in 2025, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Cleveland

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Samsonova	Wang
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	8
Tot Games	23	69
Pts	76-65	244-218
Total Points	141	462
Winners	26	86
%Winners	34%	35%

Samsonova played 1 match while Wang competed in 3 matches. Wang started her run from the qualifications while Samsonova had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yafan Wang dropped 2 sets while Liudmila Samsonova hasn’t lost a set so far. Samsonova has played 6 set(s) less than Wang (2 vs 8). Therefore, Samsonova played 46 games less than Wang. The Russian scored 26 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Wang struck 86 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Samsonova	Wang
Aces	5	6
Avg per match	5	2
1st in	35/69	132/214
%1st in	51%	62%
1st pts	26/35	86/132
%1st pts	74%	65%
2nd pts	20/34	48/82
%2nd pts	59%	59%

Samsonova made 5 aces . Wang managed to score 6 aces (2 per match). Samsonova won 74% points behind her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Wang won 65% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Samsonova	Wang
Won	3	13
Converted	3/6	13/25
% Converted	50%	52%
Conceded	9	17
Saved	7	10
% Saved	78%	59%
Times Broken	2	7

Samsonova broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Samsonova lost her serve twice and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded. Yafan broke her opponents 13 times with a 52% conversion rate. Wang conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 59% of the break points that she conceded.

Samsonova
	R1 Dolehide	Total
Score	6-4 7-62
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	76-65	76-65
Total points	141	141
Winners	26	26
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	35/69	35/69
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	26/35	26/35
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	20/34	20/34
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	7/9	7
Saved %	78%	78%
Times Broken	2	2

Wang
	Q1 Krunic	Q3 Parrizas-Diaz	R1 Stearns	Total
Score	7-5 6-0	1-6 6-0 6-4	6-4 3-6 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	3	8
Tot Games	18	23	28	69
pts	82-61	81-74	81-83	244-218
Total points	143	155	164	462
Winners	23	26	37	86
%Winners	28%	32%	46%	35%
SERVE
Aces	1	3	2	6
Double Faults	1	3	1	5
1st in	33/53	48/75	51/86	132/214
% 1st in	62%	64%	59%	62%
1st pts	23/33	26/48	37/51	86/132
% 1st pts	70%	54%	73%	65%
2nd pts	13/20	13/27	22/35	48/82
% 2nd pts	65%	48%	63%	59%
Breaks
Won	5	6	2	13
Converted	5/8	6/12	2/5	13/25
Converted %	63%	50%	40%	52%
Conceded	3	11	3	17
Saved	2/3	6/11	2/3	10
Saved %	67%	55%	67%	189%
Times Broken	1	5	1	7

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• Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (6-1 6-7⁹ 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Joao MenezesMenezes – Alexander SarkissianSarkissian (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Raymond SarmientoSarmiento (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Evan SongSong (6-7⁷ 7-6⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dennis NovikovNovikov – Donald YoungYoung (7-6⁶ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dudi SelaSela – Matias Franco DescotteFranco Descotte (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tim SmyczekSmyczek – Zsombor PirosPiros (6-3 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Duckhee LeeLee – John McnallyMcnally (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Jeff WolfWolf (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alejandro GonzalezGonzalez – Michael MmohMmoh (6-2 1-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Daniel NguyenNguyen (4-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Emilio GomezGomez – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (3-4) – H2H and prediction
• Ann LiLi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Eva LysLys – Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova (1-1) – H2H and prediction