As in the semi-final against Silvia Ambrosio from Italy, the player from Dornbirn did not get off to the best start in the match. After Grabher had missed a game point, Kung capitalized on her second break point to take a 1:0 lead. But it was to get even worse - the 23-year-old Swiss, who is currently ranked No. 255 in the WTA world rankings, quickly pulled away to 4:0 and did not allow Austria's former number one to get a grip on the match. However, Grabher (WTA no. 793) showed her fighting spirit as in the previous matches and fought her way back to 3:4 with a re-break. However, that was it in set one, which Kung won 6:3 after another break after 48 minutes.

Grabher gala with maximum penalty 
The second set was a completely different story. While Kung only managed to score 13 points in the entire set, Grabher managed 28. The result: after 37 minutes, in which she didn't give her opponent a single chance to break, the Vorarlberg player was 6:0 up - the set was level.

Bad start, great finish
The decider did not get off to the best of starts for Grabher, who lost her first service game and quickly trailed 0:2. But once again she managed to break back immediately and, after fending off a break point, to level the score at 2:2. What's more: In the fifth game, the protégé of coaching legend Günter Bresnik initially trailed 15:40, but then scored four points in a row and broke her opponent again to take a 3:2 lead.

The preliminary decision, as this broke the resistance of Kung - who had also lost her first duel with Grabher in three sets in Montreux in September 2018. After 2:12 hours, the former world number 54 converted her second match point, leaving the clay court as a 3:6, 6:0, 6:2 winner and celebrating her 14th tournament victory - the first since her complicated wrist surgery in autumn 2023. Grabher should also make a leap in the world rankings and soon appear around 600th place. 

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