Madison Keys delivered a completely breathtaking efficiency towards Belinda Bencic to destroy the in-form Swiss 6-1 6-1 within the Indian Wells quarterfinal.
Though the American entered the match using a 15-match successful streak, her rival additionally gained Abu Dhabi final month and likewise defeated Coco Gauff only a day earlier. With that being mentioned, the expectation was that it will seemingly be a really tight assembly with out a lot separating the 2.
However proper from the beginning of the match, there was just one participant on the court docket – and it was Keys – who began the match with three consecutive breaks and a 5-0 lead. Whereas the No. 5 seed didn’t serve out the sixth sport for a bagel, it did not change a lot since she collected her fourth break of the set within the following sport to bag the opener. The house favourite fired a surprising 17 winners through the first set.
At the beginning of the second set, Bencic managed to carry to her serve within the second sport and make it one sport apiece. That turned out to be all from the previous world No. 4 as Keys gained the subsequent 5 video games to finish her dominant two-set win with solely two video games misplaced.
Keys set for an Australian Open remaining rematch versus Aryna Sabalenka?
Within the final girls’s quarterfinal, high seed Sabalenka will tackle Liudmila Samsonova. If the Belarusian tennis star will get the job achieved – which is anticipated – we could have a rematch of this 12 months’s Australian Open remaining in Indian Wells.
By successful the Adelaide Worldwide and the Australian Open, Keys claimed back-to-back titles for the primary time in her profession. Now, the 30-year-old is 2 wins away from additionally successful three titles in a row for the primary time in her profession.
