43 Facts About Ludmilla Samsonova

Liudmila Dmitriyevna Samsonova is a Russian tennis player.

Ludmilla Samsonova won her first WTA Tour title at the 2021 German Open, a WTA 500 title, and has overall won four singles titles on the WTA Tour.

Ludmilla Samsonova was born 11 November 1998 in the industrial city of Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

Ludmilla Samsonova's father urged her to start playing either table tennis or lawn tennis, choosing the latter.

Ludmilla Samsonova started playing tennis at the age of six, joining Riccardo Piatti's tennis academy in Sanremo after the local tennis federation helped her financially with that.

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Ludmilla Samsonova keeps practicing outside of Russia, as she is unsatisfied with the condition for professional tennis provided by the Russian Tennis Federation domestically.

In October 2021, Ludmilla Samsonova clarified she has never had an Italian citizenship and thus has never faced the option of choosing between the two flags.

Ludmilla Samsonova speaks Italian as a native language and English as her second one, and her Russian is surprisingly good considering a lack of practice.

Ludmilla Samsonova reached her highest ITF junior ranking on 18 July 2016, peaking at the 65th spot on the rankings.

In 2013, Ludmilla Samsonova made her professional debut at consecutive ITF Circuit tournaments in Umag, but lost both her singles matches.

Ludmilla Samsonova caused a huge shock at the Open de Saint-Malo, a $60k event, coming through three rounds of qualifying to lift the biggest title of her career and breaking the top 200 for the first time in her career.

Ludmilla Samsonova started the year with her Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open, but was defeated in the second qualifying round by Karolina Muchova.

Ludmilla Samsonova received her first direct entry into a WTA Tour main draw at the Ladies Open Lausanne, but lost to lucky loser Han Xinyun in the second round.

Ludmilla Samsonova's good run continued at the WTA 125 event Open de Limoges, and reached the quarterfinals by beating top-100 players Camila Giorgi and Alize Cornet.

Similar to 2019, Ludmilla Samsonova failed to qualify for the main draw at the Qatar Open and the Dubai Championships before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the tour to go on a hiatus for a couple of months.

Ludmilla Samsonova lost in the first round of both of the US Open and French Open to the resurgent Tsvetana Pironkova and eventual finalist Sofia Kenin respectively.

Ludmilla Samsonova ended her year with a runner-up finish at the $25k event in Reims, falling to Oceane Dodin in straight sets.

Ludmilla Samsonova began her year at the Australian Open qualifying event, which was held in Dubai due to pandemic-related reasons.

Ludmilla Samsonova beat the 30th seed, former top-30 player Lesia Tsurenko, in straight sets, to book her ticket to Melbourne for a second successive year.

Ludmilla Samsonova's run ended in the second round, in the hands of world No 14, Garbine Muguruza, in straight sets.

Ludmilla Samsonova ended her trip in Australia with another successful qualifying campaign at the Adelaide International, reaching the main draw and challenging sixth seed Martic to three sets.

Ludmilla Samsonova returned to the tour at the Miami Open, where she qualified for the main draw with consecutive wins.

Ludmilla Samsonova then earned the biggest win of her career over world No 11 Kiki Bertens after losing just three games, reaching the third round of a WTA 1000 event for the first time in her career.

Ludmilla Samsonova then began her clay-court campaign at the Charleston Open and MUSC Health Women's Open, held at the same venue in consecutive weeks.

Ludmilla Samsonova suffered early losses to Coco Gauff and Clara Tauson in both tournaments, respectively.

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Ludmilla Samsonova's campaign began with a tight win over Ana Konjuh in a final-set tiebreak to qualify for the main draw, before stunning Marketa Vondrousova in the first round.

Ludmilla Samsonova then reached her first WTA 500 quarterfinal with a straight-sets defeat of compatriot Veronika Kudermetova, not facing a break point throughout the encounter.

Ludmilla Samsonova won her first main-draw match at the US Open over Katie Boulter.

Ludmilla Samsonova, seeded seventh at the Luxembourg Open, defeated Misaki Doi and Oceane Dodin to reach her first quarterfinal since Berlin.

Ludmilla Samsonova lost to Jelena Ostapenko in the semifinals, but reached another new career-high ranking after the tournament.

Ludmilla Samsonova made her main-draw debut at the Indian Wells Open, triumphing over Kateryna Kozlova in the first round, but fell to compatriot Kudermetova in the second round.

Ludmilla Samsonova lost to Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round of the Kremlin Cup.

Ludmilla Samsonova ended season at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, making her debut in the tournament but played a pivotal role in clinching the title for Russia as she went unbeaten throughout the week.

Ludmilla Samsonova partnered Veronika Kudermetova and won all six sets they contested, defeating Canada, France and the United States.

Ludmilla Samsonova began her season at the Melbourne Summer Set 1 but suffered a first-round defeat to former top-10 player Andrea Petkovic.

At the Australian Open, Ludmilla Samsonova beat qualifier Emina Bektas in the first round, reaching the second round for the second consecutive year.

Ludmilla Samsonova lost in the qualifying rounds of the Dubai Tennis Championships before falling to Alize Cornet in the first round of the Qatar Open, in a three-set match.

Ludmilla Samsonova reached the top 25 on 9 May 2022 after a semifinal showing at the 2022 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart where she lost to top seed Iga Swiatek.

Ludmilla Samsonova lost in the first rounds at both WTA 1000 tournaments: the 2022 Mutua Madrid Open and the 2022 Italian Open.

Ludmilla Samsonova's next stop was supposed to be Canadian Open qualifying but she was forced to withdrawal due to still playing at Washington DC She then played at the Tennis in the Land tournament in Cleveland.

Ludmilla Samsonova was pivotal in Russia's win over the United States as she made her singles debut against Sloane Stephens, coming from a set and multiple break points down to win the first rubber.

Ludmilla Samsonova then came back alongside Kudermetova to beat Shelby Rogers and CoCo Vandeweghe and seal a spot in the final.

Tournaments won by Ludmilla Samsonova are in boldface, and advanced into finals by Ludmilla Samsonova are in italics.