{"id":40756,"date":"2025-07-05T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40756\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:33:17","slug":"wimbledon-siegemund-beats-australian-open-champ-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40756\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon: Siegemund beats Australian Open champ Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 This most unpredictable of Wimbledons<\/a> delivered yet another surprise Friday when reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys<\/a>, the No. 6 seed, was a lopsided loser in the third round, eliminated 6-3, 6-3 by 104th-ranked Laura Siegemund of Germany.<\/p>\n

Keys\u2019 exit left just one of the top six women in the bracket before the end of Week 1: No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who stuck around by claiming the last five games and defeating 2021 U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu of Britain 7-6 (6), 6-4 at a boisterous Centre Court at night.<\/p>\n

No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 4 Jasmine Paolini and No. 5 Zheng Qinwen already were out. The men\u2019s field also has seen its share of surprises, including a Wimbledon-record 13 seeds gone in the first round.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt times, it wasn\u2019t the best quality, let\u2019s say. But I managed, and in the end, it\u2019s just important to find solutions and I did that well. Kept my nerves in the end,\u201d Siegemund said, then added with a laugh: \u201cThere are always nerves. If you don\u2019t have nerves in this moment, you\u2019re probably dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Laura<\/p>\n

Laura Siegemund of Germany serves the ball to Madison Keys of the U.S. during their women\u2019s singles third round match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo\/Alastair Grant)<\/p>\n

Laura Siegemund of Germany serves the ball to Madison Keys of the U.S. during their women\u2019s singles third round match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo\/Alastair Grant)<\/p>\n

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Wimbledon might be the only Grand Slam event where Keys hasn\u2019t reached at least the semifinals, but she has participated in the quarterfinals there twice and is enjoying a breakthrough 2025<\/a>, including her title at Melbourne Park in January.<\/p>\n

Keys\u2019 power vs. Siegemund\u2019s spins and slices offered quite a contrast in styles, and this outcome was surprisingly one-way traffic on a windy afternoon at No. 2 Court. The key statistic, undoubtedly, was this: Keys made 31 unforced errors, 20 more than Siegemund.<\/p>\n

When it ended with one last backhand return from Keys that sailed wide, Siegemund smiled broadly, raised her arms and jumped up and down repeatedly.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t not be happy when you beat a great player like Madison,\u201d Siegemund said.<\/p>\n

How unexpected is this for Siegemund<\/a>? Before this year, her career record at the All England Club was 2-5, and she\u2019d never made it past the second round. Taking into account all four Grand Slam tournaments, she had reached the third round only once in 28 previous appearances, getting to the quarterfinals at the 2020 French Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is technically no pressure for me,\u201d said Siegemund, at 37 the oldest woman remaining in the tournament. \u201cI try to remember that I only play for myself. I don\u2019t feel like I need to prove anything anymore. My boyfriend often tells me that.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the German faces another participant no one could have predicted would be at this stage of the grass-court major: 101st-ranked Solana Sierra of Argentina, who lost in qualifying and made it into the main draw when another player withdrew.<\/p>\n

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\"Solana<\/p>\n

Solana Sierra of Argentina plays a return to Cristina Bucsa of Spain during their women\u2019s singles third round match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 4, 2025.(AP Photo\/Alastair Grant)<\/p>\n

Solana Sierra of Argentina plays a return to Cristina Bucsa of Spain during their women\u2019s singles third round match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 4, 2025.(AP Photo\/Alastair Grant)<\/p>\n

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What else happened at Wimbledon on Friday?<\/p>\n

Ben Shelton<\/a> played for all of four points and about a minute, wrapping up his second-round match against Rinky Hijikata that was suspended Thursday night. Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth round<\/a> by beating Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets. Other men\u2019s seeds advancing were No. 5 Taylor Fritz, No. 14 Andrey Rublev and No. 17 Karen Khachanov. In the women\u2019s draw, four-time major title winner Naomi Osaka\u2019s<\/a> Wimbledon ended in the third round for the third time, eliminated by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. No. 13 Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. advanced to the fourth round, as did No. 24 Elise Mertens and No. 30 Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n

Who is scheduled to play at the All England Club on Saturday?<\/p>\n

Five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek will take on Danielle Collins at Centre Court \u2014 who could forget their testy exchange at the Paris Olympics<\/a>? \u2014 while No. 1 Jannik Sinner and 24-time major champ Novak Djokovic<\/a> also are involved in matches at the main stadium. Two American women will be in action at No. 1 Court: Hailey Baptiste faces No. 7 Mirra Andreeva of Russia, and No. 10 Emma Navarro plays defending champion Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

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Howard Fendrich has been the AP\u2019s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/howard-fendrich<\/a>. More AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 This most unpredictable of Wimbledons delivered yet another surprise Friday when reigning Australian Open champion…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[32349,12660,32356,2477,11054,21485,1466,2210,32352,32355,15187,10115,117,32353,18826,22298,32354,1824,22553,21487,32350,8648,8650,23024,22879,6115,9125,32351,30492,15676,62,12335,1464,67,132,68,2071,14374],"class_list":{"0":"post-40756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-amanda-anisimova","9":"tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova","10":"tag-andrey-rublev","11":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","12":"tag-barbora-krejcikova","13":"tag-ben-shelton","14":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","15":"tag-coco-gauff","16":"tag-danielle-rose-collins","17":"tag-elise-mertens","18":"tag-emma-navarro","19":"tag-emma-raducanu","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-hailey-baptiste","22":"tag-howard-fendrich","23":"tag-iga-swiatek","24":"tag-jan-lennard-struff","25":"tag-jannik-sinner","26":"tag-jasmine-paolini","27":"tag-jessica-pegula","28":"tag-karen-khachanov","29":"tag-laura-siegemund","30":"tag-linda-noskova","31":"tag-madison-keys","32":"tag-mirra-andreeva","33":"tag-naomi-osaka","34":"tag-novak-djokovic","35":"tag-qinwen-zheng","36":"tag-rinky-hijikata","37":"tag-solana-sierra","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-taylor-fritz","40":"tag-tennis","41":"tag-united-states","42":"tag-unitedstates","43":"tag-us","44":"tag-wimbledon","45":"tag-wimbledon-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}