At the WTA 250 Bad Homburg Open on Monday, Jule Niemeier stunned top-seed Maria Sakkari, while Diana Shnaider upset another local favourite, Angelique Kerber, but Liudmilla Samsonova and Beatriz Haddad Maia both advanced safely enough into round 2. Niemeier, a Germany lucky loser ranked 98 in the world, replaced Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the draw just…
No 2 seed Liudmila Samsonova from Russia dashed Canada’s Bianca Andreescu’s birthday title hopes to win her first title of the season, 4-6 6-3 7-5, in the final of the Libéma Open in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, on Sunday. I’m a little bit tired, honestly. I think, where I go it always rains, I don’t know. It’s…
Liudmila Samsonova dug deep to defeat Bianca Andreescu 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to win the Libema Open on Sunday. The 25-year-old proved stronger in the latter stages, firing 36 winners, and outlasting the former Grand Slam winner in 2 hours and 34 minutes. Competing on her 24th birthday, it was Andreescu who initially came out stronger,…
The 1st-round of the WTA 500 Adelaide International was completed on Tuesday, and the upsets continued, with Laura Siegemund beating 7th-seeded Liudmila Samsonova in 3 sets, and qualifier Katerina Siniakova seeing off wild-card Karolina Pliskova, but Jelena Ostapenko, Daria Kasatkina and Caroline Garcia were among those to make it safely through to round 2. I…
16-year-old Mirra Andreeva keeps proving that what she did in 2023 was not a fluke, as she started the new season well at the 2024 Brisbane International. In the first round of the WTA 500 tournament, the teenager overcame fellow compatriot Diana Shnaider while losing only five games in that match. In the second round…
