Madison Keys erases two match points to escape at Cincinnati Open
Sixth-seeded Madison Keys fought off two match points to rally for a 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1) victory over Germany's Eva Lys in second-round action Saturday at the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.
Keys fell behind 3-0 in the third set. Then, after she could not finish the match on her serve at 5-4, she forced the tiebreaker by staving off those match points. She dominated the tiebreaker and she finished with 12 aces to Lys' none.
'I just kept trying to listen to everyone here cheering me,' Keys said. 'It helped me get back into the match and across the finish line.'
Keys will face Japan's Aoi Ito in third-round play Monday. The 21-year-old from Japan pulled off one of Saturday's six early upsets when she knocked out 27th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
Australia's Maya Joint put in the most effort to produce an upset. The 19-year-old needed two hours, 57 minutes to defeat Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Joint, who benefited from 18 double faults by her 18th-seeded opponent, advances to face 12th-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova. The Russian breezed past New Zealand's Lulu Sun 6-4, 6-2.
Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek, the No. 3 seed from Poland, took care of Russia's Anastasia Potapova 6-1, 6-4 as Swiatek won 90.3 percent of her first-serve points. Swiatek gets 25th-seeded Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine in the third round as Kostyuk handled Germany's Tatjana Maria 6-0, 6-1.
No. 9 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan and No. 30 Emma Raducanu of Great Britain lived up to their seeds. Rybakina rallied to topple Mexico's Renata Zarazua 4-6, 6-0, 7-5 while Raducanu took out Serbia's Olga Danilovic 6-3, 6-2.
Other seeded players weren't as fortunate. No. 13 Liudmila Samsonova of Russia suffered a 6-2, 6-4 loss to Taylor Townsend, who cranked out nine aces. No. 14 Diana Shnaider of Russia came up short against China's Yuan Yue by a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 count. No. 21 Leylah Fernandez of Canada dropped a 6-3, 6-3 decision to Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro and No. 22 Magdalena Frech of Poland was eliminated 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-4 by Romania's Sorana Cirstea.
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