Madison Keys makes light work of Alison Riske 6-1 6-2 in the final in Adelaide on Saturday in what was an all-American match after playing a superlative match to win her 6th career title, the 1st of this season. The match lasted 1 hour and 6 minutes. This is the first time that Madison conquered this tournament. She has never played this tournament so far.
Highlights Madison Keys vs. Alison Riske Adelaide International 2 – Adelaide
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Keys scored 62 points vs. Alison’s 38.
Keys
Keys won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points after she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Riske
On the other side, Alison wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Keys and Riske is 6-1 for Madison.
This was the 6th career title for Keys. She won the previous title in Cincinnati. (see list of titles and finals). Riske remains with 3rd titles after she conquered the tournament in Tianjin 2014, in ‘s 2019 and in Linz 2021. (see list of titles and finals)
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Madison was too strong to drop just 1 game before breaking Alison 2 times and win the set 6-1.
Riske was completely outplayed in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-1 to 6-1.
Madison was perfect in converting all her break points in the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 30-40). On the other side, Keys didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 45 points. Keys won 11 more points than Alison (28-17). Keys lost 9 points on serve (18-9). In addition, on the other side, Alison conceded 10 points on serve (8-10).
Keys started the set strong after breaking Alison Riske in the 1st game (1-0). Madison managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Alison in the 7th (5-2) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Keys converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (2-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 5th (3-1 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). On the other side, Madison didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 57 points. Madison was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than Riske (35-22). Madison lost 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the net, Alison conceded 19 points on serve (17-19).
Madison Keys in Adelaide |
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