Liudmila Samsonova and Sorana Cirstea will play each other in the quarter of the Tennis in the Land for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 7:15 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.43
Sorana Cirstea -> 2.83

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Prediction and head to head Liudmila Samsonova vs. Sorana Cirstea

This will be the 2^nd time that Liudmila Samsonova and Sorana Cirstea clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Samsonova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Samsonova won 6-1 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Washington back in 2023.

Highlights Liudmila Samsonova vs Sorana Cirstea – Washington 02-August-2023

Liudmila Samsonova

Ranked no. 19, Ludmilla got to the quarter after beating Caroline Dolehide 6-4 7-6(2) and Yafan Wang 6-2 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Ludmilla had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-2 6-4). During the match, Samsonova scored 77 points vs Wang’s 58. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Samsonova bagged 6 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Overall, Liudmila Samsonova was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of her 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Russian broke Wang 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points she played.

Samsonova has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (320-193). 11-10 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Samsonova has a compiled 121-79 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Ludmilla’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Strasbourg.

The Russian has an aggregate 26-18 win-loss record in 2025, 11-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cleveland

Sorana Cirstea

Ranked no. 112, Cirstea got to the quarter after defeating Anna Frey 6-1 6-0, Rebeka Masarova 6-2 6-2, Moyuka Uchijima 6-4 6-1 and Jil Teichmann 6-1 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Sorana had a good straight sets win against Belen Teichmann (6-1 6-1). During the match Cirstea scored 57 points vs Belen Teichmann’s 26. Cirstea was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Cirstea struck 3 aces and she was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Sorana Cirstea was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (20/27) of her 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Romanian broke Belen Teichmann 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cirstea started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 65% of the points she played.

The Romanian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Iasi.

The Romanian has an aggregate 18-14 win-loss record in 2025, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Samsonova	Cirstea
Match played	2	4
Tot Set	4	8
Tot Games	41	60
Pts	153-123	237-127
Total Points	276	364
Winners	53	80
%Winners	35%	34%

Samsonova played 2 matches while Cirstea competed in 4 matches. Cirstea started her run from the qualifications while Samsonova had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Samsonova has played 4 set(s) less than Cirstea (4 vs 8). Therefore, Samsonova played 19 games less than Cirstea. Ludmilla scored 53 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Sorana managed to score 80 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Samsonova	Cirstea
Aces	11	9
Avg per match	5.5	2.3
1st in	69/132	114/185
%1st in	52%	62%
1st pts	53/69	80/114
%1st pts	77%	70%
2nd pts	35/63	42/71
%2nd pts	56%	59%

Samsonova managed to score 11 aces (5.5 per match). Cirstea fired 9 aces (2.3 per match). Samsonova won 77% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Cirstea won 70% 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	Cirstea
Won	7	23
Converted	7/17	23/39
% Converted	41%	59%
Conceded	12	15
Saved	9	10
% Saved	75%	67%
Times Broken	3	5

The Russian broke her opponents 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. The Russian dropped her serve 3 times and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. The Romanian broke her opponents 23 times with a 59% conversion rate. Cirstea conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Samsonova
	R1 Dolehide	R2 Wang	Total
Score	6-4 7-62	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	23	18	41
pts	76-65	77-58	153-123
Total points	141	135	276
Winners	26	27	53
%Winners	34%	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	5	6	11
Double Faults	1	8	9
1st in	35/69	34/63	69/132
% 1st in	51%	54%	52%
1st pts	26/35	27/34	53/69
% 1st pts	74%	79%	77%
2nd pts	20/34	15/29	35/63
% 2nd pts	59%	52%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	4	7
Converted	3/6	4/11	7/17
Converted %	50%	36%	41%
Conceded	9	3	12
Saved	7/9	2/3	9
Saved %	78%	67%	73%
Times Broken	2	1	3

Cirstea
	Q1 Frey	Q3 Masarova	R1 Uchijima	R2 Belen Teichmann	Total
Score	6-1 6-0	6-2 6-2	6-4 6-1	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	13	16	17	14	60
pts	53-22	60-33	67-46	57-26	237-127
Total points	75	93	113	83	364
Winners	19	20	21	20	80
%Winners	36%	33%	31%	35%	34%
SERVE
Aces	4	1	1	3	9
Double Faults	3	1	2	0	6
1st in	24/39	32/48	31/56	27/42	114/185
% 1st in	62%	67%	55%	64%	62%
1st pts	19/24	20/32	21/31	20/27	80/114
% 1st pts	79%	63%	68%	74%	70%
2nd pts	8/15	11/16	14/25	9/15	42/71
% 2nd pts	53%	69%	56%	60%	59%
Breaks
Won	6	6	5	6	23
Converted	6/7	6/10	5/11	6/11	23/39
Converted %	86%	60%	45%	55%	59%
Conceded	1	2	7	5	15
Saved	1/1	0/2	5/7	4/5	10
Saved %	100%	0%	71%	80%	126%
Times Broken	0	2	2	1	5

Tennis Scores in Cleveland

• Yifan Xu/Zhaoxuan YangXu/Zhaoxuan Yang – Ulrikke Eikeri/Eri HozumiEikeri/Eri Hozumi (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dudi SelaSela – Joao MenezesMenezes (4-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Emilio GomezGomez (2-6 6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Katie BoulterBoulter – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Eva LysLys – Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elsa JacquemotJacquemot – Ann LiLi (0-0) – H2H and prediction