Sakkari beats Dolehide Wins second WTA Guadalajara title

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Second seed Maria Sakkari defeated Caroline Dolehide 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday.

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She ended her four-year wait for a second WTA title by winning the 1000-level Guadalajara Open.

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Sakkari of Greece, ranked ninth, had come to six finals with a blank since her stunning victory in Rabat in 2019.

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Last year she lost to American Jessica Pegula and this year to Coco Gauff in the final in Washington.

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An emotional Sakkari thanked his coach of five years and said he had "waited for four years for a second title."

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"We've heard bad things - that I'll never win a title, that I'm only in the top five to win one title," she said.

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"It was very hard for me to get over that." "I'm so glad I made it here this week."

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The win came less than a month after Sakkari was unceremoniously eliminated from the first round of the US Open.

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