The first month of the season turned out to be quite disappointing for Samsonova. She lost 2-6, 1-6 to Mirra Andreeva in the first round of the Brisbane tournament. A similar fate awaited him at the Adelaide International next week.
Laura Siegemund defeated Samsonova with a score of 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4. Then there was a failure at the Australian Open, where she lost to Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 6-4 in the first round.
Samsonova earned her first victory of the year by beating Lesia Tsurenko 6-0, 6-1 at the Abu Dhabi Open. She then beat Angelina Kalinina and Barbora Krejcikova and reached the semi-finals, but then lost to Elena Rybakina.
Fernandez started the year playing for Canada at the United Cup. She won her singles match against Daniela Segel with a score of 6-2, 6-3, but then lost. Maria Sakkari beat her with a score of 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the next match and she and her team failed to qualify for the group stage.
Fernandez then beat Sarah Beilek 7-6(5), 6-2 in the first round of the Australian Open and was eliminated in the second, losing to Alicia Parks 4-6, 5-7.
Samsonova defeats Fernandez in personal matches with a score of 1-0. She won their previous meeting at the 2022 US Open in straight sets.
Predictions for the match between Lyudmila Samsonova and Leila Fernandez
After a boring trip to Australia, Samsonova returned to good form and played well in Abu Dhabi.
Fernandez, on the other hand, has not played in almost a month since his exit from the Australian Open and will face an opponent who is now in form.
The Canadian finished the previous season in style, winning the Hong Kong Open and reaching the semi-finals of the Jiangxi Open. But Fernandez started the new season weakly. There wasn’t much she could do against Samsonova the last time they crossed paths. She was beaten in the second round of the 2022 US Open and failed to win a single break point on her opponent’s serve.
Instability is sometimes a problem for Samsonova, but it now appears that the problems are behind her and she should make it through the first round in Qatar.
Forecast: Lyudmila Samsonova will win in straight sets.
Source: Sport
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