Luxembourg Open: Belinda Bencic lost to Liudmila Samsonova in quarter-finals
Switzerland’s Olympic tennis champion Belinda Bencic was defeated 6-1, 6-4 by Russian Liudmila Samsonova in the quarterfinals of the Luxembourg Open on Friday.
Samsonova, ranked 48th, claimed her second win over Bencic in as many attempts, having beaten her in the final of the grass-court tournament in Berlin in June.
Top seed Bencic dropped serve three times in her first event since reaching the quarter-finals of the US Open, where she lost to eventual champion Emma Raducanu.
The seventh-seeded Samsonova will take on 2017 French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko for a place in the final.
