American Madison Keys looked to be on her way to reaching the Round of 16 for her fourth straight Grand Slam, but she suffered a crushing third-set collapse and was eliminated by China’s Zheng Qinwen 1-6, 7-6, 7-5 on Saturday.
Keys, the No. 22 seed on the women’s side, became just the fourth seeded American player to bow out of the tournament.
After comfortably winning the first set 6-1 and losing a tiebreaker in the second set, Key sprinted out to a 5-0 lead in the third set. Serving at 5-1, Keys had a match point at 40-30. According to IBM watsonx, she had a 97 percent win probability at that point. But Qinwen fought it off, broke Keys and…
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