Madison Keys Advances Forcefully at Wimbledon
In a day marked by surprises, where two American top 10 female seeds fell, Madison Keys, world number 6, demonstrated her strength by securing her place in the third round of Wimbledon. Keys defeated Olga Danilovic with a score of 6-4 and 6-2, showing a dominant game.Keys, who in the first round defeated Elena-Gabriela Ruse in a close match that ended with scores of 6-7 (4), 7-5 and 7-5, achieved her fifth victory in a Grand Slam this season after being tied at 5 games in the third set, setting a record in the Open Era. The Wednesday match was more favorable for Keys, who hit 19 winners and closed out the second-round match in just 75 minutes.I knew I wanted to take the initiative as early as possible and try to maintain it. I knew she could play really good tennis, so I just wanted to get ahead and then keep going.
Madison Keys
Keys’ performance on grass is notable, with a record of 52-18 (.742 winning percentage), positioning her as the third active player with the best performance on this surface (with a minimum of 15 matches). She is only surpassed by Venus Williams (98-26, .790 percentage) and Petra Kvitova (74-25, .747 percentage). In other women’s results on Wednesday, Sonay Kartal of Great Britain defeated Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria with a score of 6-2 and 6-2, securing her place in the third round.I definitely felt a little more comfortable today, it’s the cloudy and rainy England that we know and love, so that helped a lot… I felt a little more normal here today.
Madison Keys
