{"id":765932,"date":"2026-06-28T02:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765932\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T02:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:28:26","slug":"madison-keys-gets-wimbledon-boost-with-eastbourne-title-but-osaka-faces-injury-worry-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765932\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Keys gets Wimbledon boost with Eastbourne title but Osaka faces injury worry | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Madison Keys won the Eastbourne title for a third time as the American defeated Germany\u2019s Tatjana Maria 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday to gain some momentum going into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/wimbledon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Keys, the tournament\u2019s No 2 seed, ignored sweltering temperatures on England\u2019s south coast to see off the world No 112 in 93 minutes. It was the 31-year-old\u2019s first title since she clinched her maiden grand slam crown at the Australian Open last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Keys joins an illustrious group of three-time champions on the Eastbourne grass, alongside Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In her first final since finishing as the Trophee Clarins runner-up in Paris in May, the Keys avenged a semi-final defeat against Maria on grass at Queen\u2019s Club last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Keys\u2019s first WTA title came at Eastbourne 12 years ago and she won a second in 2023. She maintained her dominance at the event, securing an 11th title on the women\u2019s tour in her 16th career final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">She was in charge throughout against the 38-year-old Maria and faced just one break point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It was the perfect preparation for Wimbledon, which starts on Monday. Keys has never managed to go beyond the quarter-finals at the All England Club. She will face compatriot Kayla Day in the first round on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Elsewhere, Naomi Osaka\u2019s Wimbledon preparations have received a setback after she retired at the start of the second set in the Bad Homburg Open final because of a foot injury. The fourth-seeded Japanese player was trailing 6-1, 1-0 to Karolina Muchova of Czechia in the grass-court final in Germany when she wiithdrew. Osaka had taken a medical timeout in the first set. After gesturing that she could not continue she later walked over to shake hands with Muchova. The four-time grand slam champion Osaka is seeded No 14 at Wimbledon and is scheduled to play Elsa Jacquemot in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Keys won the Eastbourne title for a third time as the American defeated Germany\u2019s Tatjana Maria 7-5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-765932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}