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Linda Noskova is the Berlin champion, and she earned it the hard way — edging Jessica Pegula 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the all-unseeded final. Noskova took the opener, surrendered the middle set as Pegula leveled the match, then broke clear in the decider to close it 6-3. It caps a run through one of the deeper grass-court draws of the season for an unseeded title.
For Pegula, it's a runner-up finish that stings given how she arrived — she'd bageled Sabalenka in the third set to reach this final, and couldn't carry that closing form into the decider here. The loss leaves her without the trophy but with a clean grass week behind her heading into the rest of the swing.
Jessica Pegula needed a bagel to finish the job: after splitting two tight sets — taking the first 6-4, dropping the second in a tiebreak — she closed out Aryna Sabalenka 6-0 in the third to reach the Berlin final. Sabalenka, who'd survived three sets a round earlier, won zero games once the decider started, the kind of collapse that flips a coin-flip semifinal into a runaway.
The other half was cleaner. Linda Noskova handled Alexandra Eala 6-2, 6-4, ending the run of the tournament — Eala had taken out Rybakina in the round of 16 before bowing out without a set here. Pegula-Noskova decides the Berlin Open title, neither seeded above the other in star wattage but both arriving on the back of a straightforward semifinal.
Aryna Sabalenka needed every bit of three sets to get past qualifier Nikola Bartunkova, dropping the opener 2-6 before clawing it back 7-6(2), 6-4 — the only quarterfinal that went the distance and the closest any seed came to going out. The rest of the round held more cleanly: Jessica Pegula edged Madison Keys in back-to-back tiebreaks, 7-6(5), 7-6(10), surviving a second-set breaker that ran to 10-8 without either serve breaking once.
Alexandra Eala kept her run going, ousting Elina Svitolina 6-3, 6-4 a day after taking out Rybakina. Linda Noskova was the most efficient of the four, conceding just four games to Paula Badosa, 6-1 6-3 to set up a semifinal against Eala.
The round of 16 belonged to Alexandra Eala, who knocked out Elena Rybakina 7-5, 6-4 — twice serving out a tight set against one of the tour's heaviest hitters and refusing to drop one. It's the biggest result of the day at the Berlin Open, pulling Rybakina out of a quarter that suddenly opens up.
Elsewhere the favorites held. Madison Keys edged Karolina Muchova in a pair of one-break sets, 6-4, 7-5, while Elina Svitolina and Linda Noskova needed no such margin — Svitolina dropped five games past Eva Lys and Noskova just four against Diane Parry. Eala is the only one of the four quarterfinalists who'll arrive having beaten a bigger name than herself.
Coco Gauff took the opening set 6-1 and then lost the next 12 of 17 games: Paula Badosa reversed the match 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 to take the Day 3 headline at the Berlin Open. It's the biggest scalp of the round of 16 and the only seeded casualty that went the distance.
Top seed Aryna Sabalenka had no such trouble, handling Alexandrova 6-4, 6-4 without dropping serve in a tight one. Jessica Pegula moved through 6-2, 6-4 over Siniakova, while Nikola Bartunkova needed just an hour or so to dispatch Elise Mertens 6-1, 6-4. Down in the round of 32, Alexandra Eala closed out Vekic 7-5, 6-4 to keep the bracket's deepest run alive.