Reilly Brantmeier beat Oceane Dodin 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 at the WTA 125K event in Caldas da Rainha, with her serve doing the heavy lifting: 16 aces to Dodin's two and only three double faults against seven. Both players converted three break points and won 48 service points apiece, so the margins came down to which breaks landed and when.
Brantmeier broke early in the opener at 1-2 and never gave it back, winning 17 of 18 first-serve points in that set. She broke again at 1-2 in the second, but Dodin responded with breaks at 5-5 and again at 7-5 to level the match, helped by four straight games and 8 of 15 second-serve return points. In the decider Brantmeier broke immediately at 0-1, Dodin hit straight back at 2-2, and the decisive blow came at 4-5 when Brantmeier broke for the match.
The aces column tells the story: 16 for Brantmeier, nine of them in the first set alone, and she landed 90% of her second serves across the match. Dodin was not outplayed on the scoreboard of total service points, but her seven double faults and 0/1 on break points saved in the third set proved costly.