The great American moment Madison Keys will be reflected in a new victory, the ninth in a row, achieved against the Kazakh Elena Rybakinasixth seed, which took him to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, where he will face the Ukrainian Elina Svitolinawho once defeated the Russian Veronika Kudermetova.
Keys defeated Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, in one hour and fifty minutes. It was the third win in five games against the Kazakh who managed to win the last two games, in the Czech Republic in 2022 and the most recent game, in Miami, last year.
Madison Keys is one step away from her best record in Australia, semifinals in 2015 and 2022, although her ceiling at a Grand Slam is the final of the United States Open, which she lost to her compatriot in 2017 Sloane Stephens.
The winner of the Adelaide tournament before the start of the Australian Open, Keys, nineteenth in the world, disappointed the expectations of Rybakina, who almost won the trophy in 2023, surpassed by Aryna Sabalenka. The 2022 Wimbledon champion was unable to complete the comeback and faltered in the third set.
Keys will face Ukrainian Elina Svitolina who returned, after six years, in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open after defeating Russian Veronika Kudermetova in the round of 16, 6-4, 6-1.
The 30-year-old player from Odessa, partnered by veteran French player Gael Monfils, took eighty minutes to seal the victory and thus reach his twelfth quarterfinal at a Grand Slam tournament and his third in Melbourne. She won for the third time against Kudermetova, who was aiming to place herself in the top eight of a major tournament for the second time, after Roland Garros 2022, after Moscow 2019 and Abu Dhabi 2021.
Source: La Verdad
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