
Marketa Vondrousova overcomes Liudmila Samsonova 6-1 4-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Adelaide on Tuesday. Vondrousova will engage against Kimberly Birrell in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 1 minute. Her most significant achievement in this competition was reaching the quarter in 2020. Here you can see her history at this event.
Marketa added to her prize money $ 5,985 after winning this match. She has already won $ 17,235 after this win. If she wins the next match, Vondrousova will add $ 16,235 to her earnings to get in total $ 33,470 in total.
Highlights Marketa Vondrousova vs. Liudmila Samsonova Adelaide International – Adelaide
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Vondrousova scored 86 points vs. Ludmilla’s 68.
Vondrousova
Vondrousova won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points as she converted only 44% (7/16) of the procured opportunities.
Samsonova
On the other side, Ludmilla wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Vondrousova and Samsonova is 3-1 for Marketa.
Draw and next match H2H: Marketa Vondrousova vs. Kimberly Birrell – stats
Vondrousova will square off with Birrell in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Marketa Vondrousova and Kimberly Birrell since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Vondrousova had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Liudmila Samsonova in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Vondrousova improved her lead after breaking the Russian in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
The Czech failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 40.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when the Czech won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the game count from 0-0 to 4-0.
Vondrousova converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 3rd (2-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (5-1 40-A). On the other side, the Russian was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 8th game (0-6 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 51 points. Vondrousova was the one to win the set after conquering 11 more points than Samsonova (31-20). The Czech dropped 7 points on serve (15-7). on the other side of the court, Ludmilla conceded 16 points on serve (13-16).
Ludmilla won the set after she broke Marketa in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game. Vondrousova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (4-2) game. Yet, Ludmilla maintained the focus to win the set 6-4.
The Russian was flawless in converting all her break points in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (3-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, the Czech was perfect in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 6th game (1-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 61 points. This was a hard-fought set and finally Samsonova won only 1 point more than the Czech (31-30). Ludmilla dropped 13 points on serve (17-13). Regarding the other side of the net, Vondrousova conceded 14 points on serve (17-14).
Marketa in this set was more solid than Samsonova and without too much struggle she won 6-2 after breaking the Russian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Vondrousova converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the Czech didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 42 points. The Czech was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Samsonova (25-17). Vondrousova was extremely solid on serve to drop just 2 points (12-2). on the other side of the net, Ludmilla conceded 13 points on serve (15-13).
Tennis Scores in Adelaide
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- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (7-5 6-3)
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- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-4)
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-0 6-1)
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Clara TausonTauson (7-65 ret.)
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Paula BadosaBadosa (3-6 6-3 6-4)
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- Victoria MbokoMboko – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (5-7 6-3 6-2)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Emerson JonesJones (6-3 6-3)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-4 6-4)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-62 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Jaqueline CristianCristian (3-0) – H2H details and stats




