{"id":265915,"date":"2025-11-02T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265915\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:19:10","slug":"swiatek-beats-keys-in-straight-sets-in-wta-finals-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265915\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek beats Keys in straight sets in WTA Finals opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; In a clash of Grand Slam winners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a> swept aside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1556\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Keys<\/a> in straight sets on the opening day of the WTA Finals in Riyadh on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Wimbledon champion needed just over an hour to beat Australian Open winner Keys 6-1, 6-2 at the season-ending tournament for the world&#8217;s top eight players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in the zone from the beginning to the end, and I really wanted to keep it that way,&#8221; said Swiatek, who won 58 of 87 points.<\/p>\n<p>It was Keys&#8217; first match in 68 days, since her first-round exit at the US Open. Swiatek acknowledged such a long absence &#8220;can make you a bit rusty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Playing in the Serena Williams Group, Keys might need to beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina beat Anisimova 6-3. 6-1 Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; In a clash of Grand Slam winners, Iga Swiatek swept aside Madison Keys in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-265915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}