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<\/p>\nMadison Keys’ path to the Lexus Eastbourne Open title<\/p>\n
First round: Talia Gibson (AUS) 6-4, 6-4
\nSecond round: Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP) 6-0, 6-1
\nQuarter-final: McCartney Kessler (USA) (7) 6-3, 6-1
\nSemi-final: Petra Marcinko (CRO) 6-1, 0-0 (RET)
\nFinal: Tatjana Maria (GER) 7-5, 6-3<\/p>\n
Maria can be a tough opponent on grass and has shown her quality in the past \u2013 most notably in her HSBC Championships title run in 2025 \u2013 but it seemed to be a good matchup for Keys in the form she\u2019s shown this week.<\/p>\n
The ball-striking on serve and both groundstrokes, along with a willingness to come into the net and pile on the pressure, prevented Maria from executing her slice game.<\/p>\n
The American got out to a fast start, breaking in the third game of the match and led from the front the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Keys looked unstoppable on serve, but showed her first signs of nerves trying to see out the set at 5-4. The American had three set points come and go \u2013 including two double faults \u2013 and Maria managed to level the score.<\/p>\n
The second seed quickly got back to work and showed her full firepower to break straight back and then see out the set at the second time of asking.<\/p>\n
Keys broke Maria on her third service game of the second set, and held to love on three of four games as she charged her way to the title.<\/p>\n
The former Australian Open champion finished the match with a total of 36 winners in just over an hour and a half.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI want to congratulate Madison and her team on a great week, and I wish her all the best for Wimbledon,\u201d Maria said after the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really nice tournament. I swear I will come back next year \u2013 I won\u2019t wait another 11 years!<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to travel with my family around the world, and we live for these moments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Keys and Maria now turn their attention to Wimbledon, where they will be dangerous players in the women\u2019s singles draw.<\/p>\n
Keys hasn\u2019t made it past the quarter-finals at SW19 before, but will start this year\u2019s campaign against fellow American Kayla Day.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 2022 semi-finalist Maria has drawn Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan, and could face 16th seed Iva Jovic in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Keys’ path to the Lexus Eastbourne Open title First round: Talia Gibson (AUS) 6-4, 6-4 Second round:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661875","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\/661875","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=661875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}