{"id":186131,"date":"2025-10-02T22:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186131\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:56:18","slug":"2025-ao-champ-keys-set-to-return-to-charleston-in-2026-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186131\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 AO Champ Keys Set to Return to Charleston in 2026 \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/tennis-player\/madison-keys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Keys<\/a> will return to Charleston in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tournament announced that Keys, 30 and currently ranked No.6 in the world after a season that saw her win her maiden major title at the 2025 Australian Open, will return to the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Keys won the title in Charleston in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Charleston Open will take place from \u00a0March 28 \u2013 April 5, 2026 next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keys holds a 21-11 lifetime record in Charleston. She was a finalist in 2015, reached the semifinals in 2018, and made quarterfinal appearances in 2013 and 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharleston is one of my absolute favorite tournaments. The fans are amazing, the city is beautiful and the event always feels so welcoming,\u201d said the American in a statement on the tournament\u2019s website. \u201cI\u2019ve played here every year since I was a teenager. I\u2019ve never missed it, and I never want to. Coming back for the 13th time just feels really special, like coming home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Pegula won the title in Charleston in 2025, defeating Sofia Kenin in the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Keys will return to Charleston in 2026.\u00a0 The tournament announced that Keys, 30 and currently ranked No.6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-186131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}