
Madison Keys gets the better of Xiyu Wang 7-6(3) 6-4 in the 4th round in Cincinnati on Wednesday. Keys will face Sara Bejlek in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 50 minutes. The American won this tournament once in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Keys added to her prize money $ 72,458 after winning this match. She has already won $ 154,210 after this win. If she wins the next match, Keys will add $ 143,105 to her earnings to get in total $ 297,315 in total.
Highlights Madison Keys vs. Xiyu Wang Cincinnati Open – Cincinnati
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Keys scored 74 points vs. Xiyu’s 63.
Keys
The American served exceptionally well to win 83% of the points (34/41) behind her first serve. However she won only 48% points (12/25) on her second serve. Keys won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points after she converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Wang
On the other side, Wang was struggling when converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Keys and Wang is 2-0 for Madison.
Draw and next match H2H: Madison Keys vs. Sara Bejlek – stats
Keys will fight against Bejlek in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Madison Keys and Sara Bejlek since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Keys had a favorable start in this set after breaking Xiyu Wang in the 1st game (1-0). However, Madison managed to stage a good comeback to break Wang in the 4th (2-2) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 3.
Tiebreak
Keys won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, Wang won a minibreak in the 8th (3-5) point.
The American won the tiebreak 7-3 after she conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
They contested 83 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Keys won barely 1 point more than the Chinese (42-41). The American lost 15 points on serve (27-15). Regarding the other side of the net, Wang conceded 15 points on serve (26-15).
Keys came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Xiyu Wang in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, that was not enough for Keys to win the set since Xiyu managed to break back in the 8th (4-4) game. Keys maintained her cool to break Xiyu in the 9th (5-4) game before conquering the set (6-4).
Keys converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, the Chinese was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 8th game (3-4 15-40).
They played 50 points. The American conquered the set after winning 6 points more than Wang (28-22). Keys surrendered 6 points on serve (17-6). In addition, on the other side, Wang conceded 11 points on serve (16-11).
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (4-6 6-0 6-2)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-4 6-4)
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (7-67 6-4)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 4-6 7-5)
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-1 6-4)
- Cori GauffGauff – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-3 6-2)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Diane ParryParry (6-3 6-3)
- Madison KeysKeys – Xiyu WangWang (7-63 6-4)
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