![]() Russian sources were more specific about all the reasons behind the unusual switch after turning 18 in the light of significant amount of local players switching from the Russian flag. In July 2021, she explained the reason behind her decision was the extra pressure of competing for the Italian national team, a country where tennis is more followed than in Russia where she feels like competing only for herself, especially considering her "boom boom" hard-hitting game style. Between 20, Liudmila represented Italy in professional tennis, before switching to the Russian flag. She started playing at the age of six, joining Riccardo Piatti's tennis academy in Sanremo after the local tennis association helped her financially. ![]() Her father urged her to start playing either table tennis or lawn tennis, choosing the latter. Her father Dmitry, a table tennis player, was invited to play for the club Ferentino based in Turin. Their family moved with the then-one-year-old Liudmila to Italy. Samsonova was born in the industrial city of Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. At the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup, Samsonova led the Russian team to their first triumph since 2008, winning all five of her matches in both singles and doubles. ![]() She has also won a total of eight singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She won her first WTA Tour title at the 2021 German Open, a WTA 500 title, and has overall won four singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour. Samsonova has career-high WTA rankings of No. She also competed for Italy from 2014 to 2018. Liudmila Dmitrievna Samsonova (Russian: Людмила Дмитриевна Самсонова, IPA: born 11 November 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player.
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