American second seed Madison Keys won the Lexus Eastbourne Open for a third time on Saturday afternoon, beating German Tatjana Maria 7-5, 6-4 to lift the trophy on the south coast days before Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
Keys edged a tight opening set before pulling clear in the second to complete a straight-sets win, adding to the Eastbourne titles she claimed in 2014 and 2023. It was a fitting end to a commanding week, and she made no secret of her delight at returning to the winner\u2019s circle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be in the winner\u2019s circle again, and I hope for many more,\u201d Keys said, before a lighter reflection on the prize itself. \u201cI always forget how heavy this one is.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was also her first title since she became a Grand Slam champion at the 2025 Australian Open, ending a wait that had stretched across 74 weeks and 23 tournaments<\/p>\n
Maria, ranked No 112, had been the story of the week, the German producing a run of upsets to reach the final. She knocked out top seed Jasmine Paolini (6-4, 6-3) in the semi-finals and had earlier accounted for Latvian third seed Jelena Ostapenko, who retired trailing (6-1, 1-2 ret.), as well as Czech Tereza Valentova (6-3, 7-5) and Russian Anastasia Zakharova (6-2, 6-1), but found Keys a step too far in the final.<\/p>\n
Keys had dropped little on her way to the title, beating Croat Petra Marcinko, who retired in the first set (6-1), American seventh seed McCartney Kessler (6-3, 6-1), Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (6-0, 6-1) and Australian Talia Gibson (6-4, 6-4).<\/p>\n
She heads to Wimbledon with momentum and a place among the seeds, a potential third-round opponent for last year\u2019s runner-up Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American second seed Madison Keys won the Lexus Eastbourne Open for a third time on Saturday afternoon, beating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-766516","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\/766516","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=766516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}