On a day when Tropical Storm Hermine was supposed to slam the east coast, it was Hurricane Caroline that sent eighth-seeded Madison Keys running for cover on the middle Sunday in New York.
Two-time US Open finalist Wozniacki toppled the American, 6-3, 6-4, in one hour, 20 minutes inside an open-roofed Arthur Ashe Stadium to advance to the quarterfinals.
If you didn’t know which player had been injured and lacking form entering the US Open, you would never have guessed it from watching this fourth-round encounter. Wozniacki, a former world No. 1, did everything better than her 21-year-old opponent, flowing across the court, returning perfectly and serving with a purpose in the biggest tennis stadium in the world.
Keys was far from her best, possibly feeling the effects of two epic comebacks over her first three matches. But that takes nothing away from the Dane’s turn-back-the-clock performance, which looked more like the Wozniacki of 2009 than 2016.
The score may even have flattered Keys a little, who had no answer to Wozniacki’s scrambling and ball retrieving and who misfired from the baseline on multiple occasions.
Wozniacki got to at least deuce on Keys’ first three service games and didn’t face a break point on her own racquet until the fourth game of the second set. The 39-minute first-set could just have easily been 6-1, but in the end, the momentum would likely have been no different.
Wozniacki broke Keys again twice more in the second set, the latter of which came on a Keys double fault at 2-2, 30-40, which seemed to zap the remaining fight out of the American
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