Canadian Open: Keys knocks out Williams in straight sets

No 13 seed Madison Keys has snuffed out any hope of a dream run by wildcard Venus Williams at the Canadian Open on Monday night, defeating the former world No 1 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the second round.

43-year-old Williams gave a good account of herself, fighting hard in the second set and coming close to forcing a decider after she staved off eight match points. However, Keys had too much power for the seven-time Grand Slam champion, winning 63 percent of her second serve return points.

Keys, ranked No 15, will play Italian Jasmine Paolini next.

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Tennis Majors

Montreal WTA 1000, other round of 64 matches (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2,788,468):

• Belinda Bencic (12) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Victoria Azarenka (16) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-0
• Marie Bouzkova beat Kayla Day (Q): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini beat Donna Vekic: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Karolina Pliskova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2
• Katie Boulter vs. Rebecca Marino
• Elise Mertens vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Petra Martic vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Alycia Parks vs. Lauren Davis
• Camila Giorgi vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Anna Blinkova vs. Shuai Zhang
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Mayar Sherif
• Bernarda Pera vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Danielle Collins vs. Elina Svitolina
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Paula Badosa
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Sloane Stephens vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Jennifer Brady vs. Jelena Ostapenko