{"id":57435,"date":"2025-08-10T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57435\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:13:08","slug":"eva-lys-sends-message-to-madison-keys-after-their-clash-in-cincinnati-that-will-haunt-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57435\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Lys sends message to Madison Keys after their clash in Cincinnati that will &#8216;haunt&#8217; her"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Madison Keys booked her place in the second round of the Cincinnati Open after a comeback win against Eva Lys. <\/p>\n<p>Lys took the first set convincingly by six games to one, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/australian-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> champion responded to by forcing a decisive third set. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/madison-keys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keys<\/a> saved two match points against the German and won the third-set tiebreak to clinch the victory in front of a home crowd on Grandstand, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6. <\/p>\n<p>After her loss, Lys took to social media to send a message to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Cincinnati-Open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Open<\/a> conqueror. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2228560063-1024x592.jpg\" alt=\"Madison Keys in action at the Cincinnati Open.\" \/>Photo by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesEva Lys\u2019 message to Madison Keys after losing to her in Cincinnati<\/p>\n<p>The defeat for Lys marked her second loss to a top ten player this month, following her third-round exit at the Canadian Open to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/iga-swiatek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the match, the world number 62 posted on Instagram, saying: \u201cThose match points will haunt me in my sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsane fight from @madisonkeys, those are the matches I play for. Thank you @cincytennis.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Since Wimbledon, she has collected three wins during the North American hard-court swing. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229297205-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Lys serving at the Cincinnati Open.\" \/>Photo by Matthew Stockman\/Getty ImagesMadison Keys\u2019 results on the WTA Tour since Wimbledon <\/p>\n<p>Keys was one of the many seeded stars across both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA<\/a> and ATP tours to bow out in the early stages of the Wimbledon championships.<\/p>\n<p>The American\u2019s campaign at the All England Club ended in the third round after she lost to Laura Siegemund in straight sets. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, she has got herself back in the win column, and advanced to the quarterfinals at the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p>She got revenge on Siegemund in Montreal and earned victories over Caty McNally and Karolina Muchova before her loss to Clara Tauson in the last eight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Keys booked her place in the second round of the Cincinnati Open after a comeback win against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[13301,31244,18456,101,118,56,54,55,6546],"class_list":{"0":"post-57435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cincinnati-open","9":"tag-eva-lys","10":"tag-madison-keys","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}