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Maria Sakkari will take on Caroline Dolehide in the final of the Guadalajara Open on Saturday. On Friday, the second-seeded Sakkari and the unseeded Dolehide made their way into the final with imperious wins in their respective semi-finals.
Playing against Caroline Garcia, who was seeded third this week in Mexico, Sakkari took just 71 minutes to post a 6-3, 6-0 win for herself.
Guadalajara Open: Maria Sakkari plays her way back into triumphs
Coming into the tournament, both Garcia and Sakkari were looking to beat the patch of poor results that had waylaid them.
And up to the semi-finals, both had succeeded tremendously. However, in the semi-finals, Sakkari emerged as the better player even as Garcia struggled to even put in her serves. This was especially true of the second set. In that set, the 29-year-old put only 29% of her first serves in to her opponent’s 58%.
Of the five first serve points she landed in, Garcia won only two across the match even as Sakkari won nine of the 15 first-serve points she put in. Sakkari also did well on second-serve returns, finishing the match by winning 10 of 13 points played on return on Garcia’s second serve.
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