Only a couple of days remain before the start of the 2025 Australian Open. Top-seeded Jessica Pegula has made the semifinals at the WTA Adelaide International. While she’s joined by three unseeded players, it’s a stacked line-up anyway. Madison Keys will try to beat Liudmila Samsonova and potentially join Pegula in an all-American final. Who do you think will advance to the championship match?<\/p>\n
Head-to-head:<\/strong> Keys 4-1<\/p>\n Liudmila Samsonova won her first match against Madison Keys on the grass courts in Berlin in 2021, but the American has defeated her four times in a row since. That includes two hard-court meetings at 2022 Adelaide and 2023 US Open<\/a>. Keys is coming off a spectacular performance against Kasatkina where she hit 37 winners herself and limited the Russian to just 3. Success in that matchup doesn’t have to mean anything when taking on Samsonova, given this will be a lot more of a power-hitting blow-for-blow contest. But since she’s done well against her in the past and is a little more dynamic and consistent… She might just find a way to translate that level from yesterday to another rivalry.
\nPrediction: Keys in 3<\/em><\/p>\n