The Australian Open champion is back to winning ways on the WTA<\/a> Tour after a largely disappointing grass swing, which ended in a third-round exit at Wimbledon<\/a>. <\/p>\n After her victory over McNally, Keys reflected on the result and gave her thoughts on the performance of her fellow American. <\/p>\n Speaking after the match, the world number eight said: \u201cI don\u2019t think I would say that she did anything that surprised me.<\/p>\n \u201cI think she\u2019s a really good tennis player. I think she\u2019s a very good all-court player as well.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I was expecting her to come in and slice and try to change up the pace. I just think that she played really well, and it\u2019s good to see that she\u2019s finding her level again after being injured.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s also won a ton of matches the last couple of weeks, and I feel like no matter what level you\u2019re doing that at, you\u2019re just building your own confidence. I think that really helps in matches like this.<\/p>\n \u2018I think I just had to kind of raise my level. Was going for a little bit too much too soon in the first set. But yeah, I was impressed with her, and I felt like I had to raise my level in order to get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n Madison Keys says that she has \u2018struggled\u2019 this season<\/p>\n Keys added: \u201cI\u2019ve definitely played a lot of tennis. It\u2019s probably the most tennis I\u2019ve ever played in my career, and I think the biggest thing is that I\u2019m just really happy that my body is holding up the way that it has been.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, injuries have always been something that kind of hampered me season to season. <\/p>\n \u201cSo that was a really big goal of mine is to just try to bulletproof my body as much as possible so I could play these long matches and be able to bounce back the next day. So super happy about that.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that the competitive side of things, it\u2019s always tough because I think I\u2019ve always tried to be a good competitor, but I think sometimes knowing when to go for things and when to kind of pull back was always where I struggled a little bit.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt like a lot of times I would maybe get a little bit too tentative in really important points and play a little bit too safe, but I definitely have a lot more confidence now, especially switching racquets, that I just have a little bit more control, and I can do the things that I want to do a little bit easier.<\/p>\n She has played her next opponent, Muchova, just once before, beating her in Beijing in 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Keys booked her place in the fourth round of the Canadian Open after defeating US compatriot Caty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[28389,16678,12764,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-54829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-canadian-open","9":"tag-caty-mcnally","10":"tag-madison-keys","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54829","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=54829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Madison](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227336636-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by David Kirouac\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesMadison Keys gives her thoughts on Caty McNally\u2019s performance<\/p>\n