In 2024, she changed her surname to
gender neutral form to be distuinguished from another circuit tennis player, Russian
Liudmila Samsonova, with whom she was presented under the same short name L. Samsonova.[2]
Junior career
A member of
TK Sparta Prague, Samsonová won her first junior title as a 13 year-old at a J5 event in
Prostějov in a October 2021, without dropping a set. It was her first junior-level event. She then won her second J5 event in November 2021 in
Silla-Saledar in Spain, and reached the final in her third, in
Montemar.[3][4]