Madison Keys hit a low point in May and doubted she could ever win another tennis match.
Keys is all smiles after her win over Estonia's Kaia Kanepi in their US Open quarter-final on Wednesday. Pic/AFP
Madison Keys hit a low point in May and doubted she could ever win another tennis match. Now she's playing in the US Open semi-finals. Keys completed the first all-American US Open women's semi-final lineup since 1981 on Wednesday by beating Estonian qualifier Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-3 at Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I'm really excited and proud of all of us for getting this far. USA all the way," Keys said.
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The comeback tale began when she lost four matches in a row at Miami, Charleston, Madrid and Rome and was ousted in the second round of the French Open, pushing her into her second left wrist surgery in 10 months.
"There were definitely a lot of dark moments. Having all the things that were thrown at me this whole year and having some really low moments," Keys added.
"There was a moment where I came off the court and I said, 'I don't know if I'm ever going to win a tennis match again'." But the scene brightened when she won her third career WTA title at Stanford, winning the final over her US Open semi-final foe CoCo Vandeweghe, whom she also beat at Cincinnati in her last US Open tuneup. And then came a run to match her best Slam performance from the 2015 Australian Open. "To have this really feels good and makes me really proud of myself. This means the world to me. If someone told me this is where I would be right before Wimbledon I wouldn't have believed you," Keys said.
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