American Madison Keys upset world primary Iga Swiatek 6-3, 6-4 to succeed in the Cincinnati Masters quarterfinals on Thursday.
Swiatek, a two-time Grand Slam champion, hasn’t gotten previous the spherical of 16 in 4 tournaments since profitable Roland Garros in June.
The win was the Twenty fourth-ranked Keys’ first in six matches in opposition to a top-ranked opponent. She had by no means received a set in opposition to a No. 1 participant.
After dropping the primary set and shedding the primary 5 video games of the second, Swiatek rallied to win 4 straight, preventing off one match level earlier than Keys clinched victory with a forehand winner to the advert courtroom off a shot that clipped the web.
Swiatek received her first two matches in opposition to Keys, together with 6-1, 6-0 earlier this 12 months at Indian Wells.
“Clearly, there have been a few video games the place I had match level,” Keys stated in an on-court interview. “She beat me fairly badly the final time we performed, so I used to be completely happy to get the win.”
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova superior to the ladies’s quarterfinals with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 win over 2022 Wimbledon finalist and fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur.
No. 1 Daniil Medvedev superior to the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 7-5 win over Denis Shapovalov. Medvedev is making an attempt to shake off a second-round loss to Nick Kyrgios final week in Montreal and hone his recreation for the upcoming US Open.
Eleventh-seeded Taylor Fritz turned the primary man to succeed in the quarterfinals, edging sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-5.
