With Americans excelling so far, Keys routed Jessica Pegula on Monday and looked ready to finish what she started in 2017.
NEW YORK — Madison Keys has had success at the U.S. Open before, finishing as the runner-up in 2017 and advancing to the semifinals a year later. She knows what it’s like to enter the tournament with great expectations.and Jessica Pegula who were coming in hot and hogging all the headlines, both perhaps ready to challenge for the first major title of their respective careers. Keys, meanwhile, began this year’s U.S. Open as the No. 17 seed, same as her world ranking.
Keys was dominant from the outset, breaking in Pegula’s first service game for a 2-0 lead and breaking again to go up 5-1 before serving out the set. In the second, Keys took a 3-2 lead when she broke Pegula for a third time. Pegula broke her back right away — just the second service game Keys has lost in the tournament — but Keys responded to tie the set, 3-3, before going on to close out the match in a tidy one hour and one minute.
Pegula, the No. 3 seed and top-ranked American, was visibly annoyed at times throughout the match. She dropped her racket in frustration after firing a backhand into the net in the second set and later fired a ball into the back wall display. “I feel like today was just really focused on trying to keep rallies short just because Jess is so good,” Keys said, “and the longer the rally gets, the better Jess seems to get. Was really just trying to focus on hitting the best ball I could the first one or two balls of the rallies.”If Keys is to win her first Grand Slam title here, six years after losing to Sloane Stephens in an all-American final, the road won’t be easy. Keys will face, the No.
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