Reilly Opelka wins Dallas for third career ATP title

Thanks to four victories at the Dallas Open, Reilly Opelka served up his third career ATP singles title—literally.

Over the course of the week, Opelka went 46 service games without being broken and secured his first tour-level singles trophy in two years on Sunday with a 7-6(5), 7-6(2) victory over Jenson Brooksby in the final of the ATP 250 event.

Opelka's last title came at Delray Beach in 2020, but he was also a champion previously in this same week in 2019 at the New York Open on Long Island.

The license for that tournament was sold to Dallas beginning in 2022, bringing ATP tennis back to north Texas for the first time since 1983. 

Neither player lost serve in the final as the duo saved all six break points they faced, combined. Brooksby had just one chance against Opelka's vaunted serve—at 1-1 in the first set—but couldn't convert, and Opelka sealed the one hour, 52-minute victory by winning his fifth and sixth tiebreak sets of the week. Brooksby saved all five break points against him in the second set, including four at 5-5. 

Opelka, seeded No. 2 at the event, didn't lose a set in his four victories, and set an ATP record with John Isner for the longest tiebreak played in tour history in the semifinals.