TENNIS SCORES. Spirited Keys survives Halep in the 3rd round of the Western & Southern Open

Madison Keys survives Simona Halep 6-1 3-6 7-5 in the 3^rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday after winning a huge battle. Keys will play Venus Williams in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Keys was far too good to drop just 1 game before breaking Halep 2 times and win the set 6-1.

The Romanian lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Halep started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Keys in the 2^nd game (2-0). Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Romanian to win the set since Madison succeeded in breaking back in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (3-4) game. Simona maintained her cool to break Madison in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

3^rd set.

Keys enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Halep in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, that was not enough for Keys to win the set since Simona found the way to break back in the 5^th (2-3) game. Keys kept her focus to break Halep in the 12^th (7-5) game.

The American missed the opportunity to break Halep in the 4^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

The Romanian lost the 12^th game (7-5) when she was 40-0 up.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Madison scored 111 points vs. Simona’s 101 points.

Keys fired 10 aces and she committed 3 double faults. Madison won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 46% (6/13). On the other side, the Romanian was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 27% of her break points (4/15). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Keys and Halep is 2-5 for Simona.

Highlights Madison Keys vs. Simona Halep Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati

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Next Match: Madison Keys vs. Venus Williams – stats

Keys will compete against Williams in the quarter.

This will be the 5^th time that Madison Keys and Venus Williams face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Keys and Williams (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Keys won 6-1 6-7² 6-3 in the 3^rd round in Montreal back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Karolina PliskovaKarolina – Rebecca PetersonRebecca (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaSvetlana – Sloane StephensSloane (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyAshleigh – Anett KontaveitAnett (4-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsVenus – Donna VekicDonna (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariMaria – Aryna SabalenkaAryna (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninSofia – Elina SvitolinaElina (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaNaomi – Su-Wei HsiehSu-Wei (7-6³ 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Madison KeysMadison – Simona HalepSimona (6-1 3-6 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyAshleigh – Maria SakkariMaria (1-1) – See H2H details
• Karolina PliskovaKarolina – Svetlana KuznetsovaSvetlana (2-2) – See H2H details
• Venus WilliamsVenus – Madison KeysMadison (2-2) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninSofia – Naomi OsakaNaomi (0-1) – See H2H details