{"id":660887,"date":"2026-06-27T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660887\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:43:23","slug":"lexus-eastbourne-open-2026-former-champion-madison-keys-set-to-face-tatjana-maria-in-womens-singles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660887\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexus Eastbourne Open 2026: Former champion Madison Keys set to face Tatjana Maria in women\u2019s singles final"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt was a tough match from the beginning\u201d Maira said post-match. \u201cEven though I won the first set 6-1 and I was really focused about every single point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was feeling well, then the rain started but I was focused I was ready to go out here. It\u2019s never nice to end like this but I\u2019m happy with my week for the moment and I\u2019m happy to be in the final.\u201d<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s final on Saturday will be Keys and Maria\u2019s fifth meeting, with the former Australian Open champion leading their head-to-head so far with three wins over the German.<\/p>\n

The world No.27 won their first meeting at Wimbledon in straight sets during her first quarter-final run in 2015 before picking up another two wins at the US Open in 2017 and in Charleston in 2019.<\/p>\n

However, Maria came through in their most recent meeting on the grass at The Queen\u2019s Club in 2025, winning 6-3, 7-6(3). The world No.112 made history at the event \u2013 coming through qualifying and defeating four top-15 players on her way to the title at the first women\u2019s tournament at the club in over 50 years.<\/p>\n

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Alongside her highest career title from the HSBC Championships, Maria bagged her first WTA title on the grass in Mallorca in 2018. Her slice-heavy game is known for being a threat on the surface \u2013 she got her best Major result at Wimbledon in 2022 when she made it to the semi-final, ranked world No.103.<\/p>\n

Keys is also a consistent force on the grass, holding a 60-23 record on the surface. As well as her three grass court titles, she\u2019s made the quarter-final of Wimbledon twice and already made a quarter-final run this swing \u2013 she lost to eventual runner-up Jessica Pegula in Berlin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a really tough match\u201d, Keys said of her 16th career Tour-level singles final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is such a great player, and especially the grass suits her game so well. She got me last year in Queen\u2019s, so I\u2019ll hopefully have some revenge tomorrow. Really looking forward to another final here in Eastbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n

How to watch Madison Keys vs Tatjana Maria<\/p>\n

You can watch Keys and Maria in action in the Lexus Eastbourne Open women’s singles final live on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport as well as the Tennis Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a tough match from the beginning\u201d Maira said post-match. \u201cEven though I won the first set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660887","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=660887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}