{"id":73806,"date":"2025-08-11T04:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73806\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:07:12","slug":"madison-keys-shares-verdict-on-the-fans-at-the-cincinnati-open-after-winning-her-first-match-against-eva-lys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73806\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Keys shares verdict on the fans at the Cincinnati Open after winning her first match against Eva Lys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Madison Keys has enjoyed a winning start to this year\u2019s Cincinnati Open after fighting back to knock out Eva Lys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/madison-keys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keys<\/a> is the sixth seed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/cincinnati-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Open<\/a>, which she takes on after falling in the quarterfinals of the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Home favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/ben-shelton-and-victoria-mboko-both-post-just-one-word-on-instagram-after-winning-the-canadian-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Mboko won the Canadian Open<\/a>, with the champion having since decided to withdraw from Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal runner-up Naomi Osaka has also taken the decision to withdraw from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA<\/a> 1000 event, which world number one Aryna Sabalenka is playing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/aryna-sabalenka-says-how-she-feels-about-having-to-face-emma-raducanu-again-in-cincinnati-so-soon-after-wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabalenka will play Emma Raducanu<\/a> after winning her opener, while Keys will take on qualifier Aoi Ito next.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227336636-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Madison Keys in action at the Canadian Open.\" class=\"wp-image-116990\" \/>Photo by David Kirouac\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesMadison Keys shares verdict on Cincinnati Open fans after opening win<\/p>\n<p>The American received a bye in the first round, and is now into the third round after beating Lys 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(7-1).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the fans after her opening win, Keys said: \u201cI\u2019ve always loved this tournament and it\u2019s always packed.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/danielle-collins-reveals-the-real-reason-why-she-was-crying-at-the-cincinnati-open-and-sends-message-to-taylor-townsend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danielle Collins reveals the real reason why she was crying at the Cincinnati Open and sends message to Taylor Townsend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s never any match I\u2019ve ever played where you look around and there\u2019s not hundreds of people around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that part of that is that this tournament has been here for so long, but the fans are very knowledgeable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re very big tennis fans, and I feel like it\u2019s such a great central location for a lot of Midwesterners to come. It\u2019s always one of my favorite tournaments and I think the fans are a huge part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madison Keys analyses her current level ahead of her next match at the Cincinnati Open<\/p>\n<p>Keys has really enjoyed her time in Cincinnati over the years, having won 18 matches there throughout her career.<\/p>\n<p>It represents her highest single-event total after the 21 in Charleston for the current Australian Open champion.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/chris-eubanks-reveals-how-americas-wta-players-actually-reacted-when-madison-keys-and-coco-gauff-won-grand-slam-titles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Eubanks reveals how America\u2019s WTA players actually reacted when Madison Keys and Coco Gauff won Grand Slam titles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analysing her current level, the 30-year-old said: \u201cI\u2019m feeling pretty good. It\u2019s obviously a long year, started off on a really big note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I feel like I\u2019ve had probably some of the best wins of my career and it\u2019s probably the most consistent that I\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I really just feel like I\u2019m trekking along, one tournament after another. I\u2019m looking forward to hopefully finishing the season on as good of a note as I started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But now looking to cause an upset against Keys in Cincinnati is Ito, who is currently ranked 94th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese 21-year-old just knocked out 27th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, winning their meeting 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Keys has enjoyed a winning start to this year\u2019s Cincinnati Open after fighting back to knock out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[37370,52691,12764,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-73806","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-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73806","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=73806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}