‘Third time’s the charm’: Galfi wins WTA 125 Oeiras title

After two runner-up finishes, Dalma Galfi is finally a WTA 125 champion. The unseeded Hungarian defeated No. 2 seed Katie Volynets of the United States 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 to win the Oeiras Ladies Open title in Oeiras, Portugal. Rain played havoc with the schedule all week, but the clay-court event finished on time on Sunday, concluding with Galfi’s 2-hour and 13-minute comeback in the final. “Third time’s the charm,” 26-year-old Galfi said in her Instagram post celebrating her biggest professional title. In Galfi’s two prior WTA 125 finals, she lost to Sara Errani at 2022 Contrexeville and to Darja Semenistaja earlier this month at La Bisbal d’Emporda. All of her WTA 125 finals have been on clay, and she pushed all of them to three sets.On this occasion, Galfi was able to shake off the loss of the first set to control the next two. Galfi saved all four break points she faced in the second and third sets combined. All told, Galfi dropped only one set en route to the title, which was the first set of the final. She has won nine of her last 10 matches, with the La Bisbal d’Emporda final preceding the Oeiras title by
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