Mayar Sherif vs Oleksandra Oliynykova — SF — Iași Open

Second serves settled this semifinal. Mayar Sherif won all nine points behind hers while Oleksandra Oliynykova scraped three of eight behind her own, a gap the WTA No. 109 converted into five breaks from ten chances, the last of the opener arriving in game 9 for 6-3. This reads as an upset only on paper — the 10Bet market priced Sherif at 54 percent while our model sided with the No. 3 seed, who had won their only prior meeting on record but held serve just three times in eight games here. Sherif needed 87 minutes to book her place in the Iași Open final, one win from the title.