US Open: Keys ends 18-year-old qualifier Joint’s run
Madison Keys defeated Maya Joint 6-4, 6-0 on Wednesday and will play Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 33 seed, in the next round
Madison Keys, US Open 2024
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American Madison Keys, the No 14 seed, reached the third round of the US Open by defeating Australian qualifier Maya Joint 6-4, 6-0 on Wednesday.
Keys, ranked No 14, will play Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 33 seed, next.
In the previous round, the American won against Katerina Siniakova (6-4, 6-1).
Joint, ranked No 135, beat German Laura Siegemund (6-4, 7-5) in the first round.
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 75.000.000, most recent results first):
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Xinyu Wang
- Varvara Lepchenko vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Naomi Osaka vs. Karolina Muchova
- Anna Bondar vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Renata Zarazua
- Elena Rybakina vs. Jessika Ponchet
- Sofia Kenin vs. Jessica Pegula
- Katie Boulter vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
- Clara Tauson vs. Diana Shnaider
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Sara Errani
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Ena Shibahara
- Tatjana Maria vs. Coco Gauff
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Clara Burel
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Elina Svitolina vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Emma Navarro vs. Arantxa Rus
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Donna Vekic vs. Greet Minnen
- Diane Parry vs. Yafan Wang
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Iva Jovic
- Harriet Dart vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Erika Andreeva
- Elise Mertens beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 6-2
- Jule Niemeier beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 6-0
- Paula Badosa (26) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-3, 7-5
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Barbora Krejcikova (8): 6-4, 7-5
