Western & Southern Open: Madison Keys Overcomes Elena Rybakina To Reach Semis

Western & Southern Open: Madison Keys overcomes Elena Rybakina to make it into the semis

Cincinnati (USA) August 20 : Madison Keys registered an 6-2, 6-4 victory against Elena Rybakina in 1 hour and 31 minutes to make it to her second Western & Southern Open semifinal on Friday.
The American took home the biggest victory of her career at Cincinnati 2019.

 Western & Southern Open: Madison Keys Overcomes Elena Rybakina To Reach Semis-TeluguStop.com

This result boosted her overall record at the event to 17-7 or 71 percenther best by a distance in the WTA 1000 events.

With this victory, Keys has now reached nine semifinals in her career at WTA 1000 level or above.

Keys also reached the Australian Open last four in January, this is the first time that she has played more than one semifinal in one season since the end of 2018.

Keys won their second time over Rybakina in as many encounters for Keys.

Both were played this year, but whereas Keys’ Roland Garros third round was a high-quality battle that demanded a tiebreak prior to Keys advanced to the next round 3-6 6-1, 7-6(3), this match was more of a one-sided affair.

Notably the 27-year-old Keys the last five semifinals have been on hard courts.

The last time she made it to the final four of the tournament on an alternative surface was in winning the title in 2019 at the Charleston final with green clay.

In all, a total of 21 winners were hit by Keys during the course of the match, compared to only eleven for Rybakina.Rybakina’s serve return of serve was especially effective and a small number of Keys’ Wimbledon champion’s second serves were unpunished.On the other the other hand, Rybakina committed 25 unforced mistakes, compared to just 16 in the case of Keys.

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