Resplendent since entering the competition on Wednesday, Madison Keys offered herself a final reflecting her state of form this week, stifling her compatriot Danielle Collins (12th) in two sets and 1h12 (6-1, 6-2). world) this Sunday, in Strasbourg. She thus won the Alsatian tournament, ranked WTA 500 since this year, the 8th title of her career and the first in 2024.
This is also her second title on clay after that of Charleston, in 2019. It bodes well for her, as Roland-Garros begins on Sunday (May 26-June 9). Keys will enter the competition against the Mexican Renata Zarazua, 102nd in the world.
Dominant throughout this week where she did not lose a single set and inflicted a 6-0 or a 6-1 on each of her four successive opponents (Wang Xinyu, Magda Linette, Liudmila Samsonova and Danielle Collins, therefore), Keys was above again this Saturday. In the final, she totaled 22 winners, compared to only 10 from Collins. Same imbalance on unforced errors, 17 for Collins, 11 for Keys.
Keys defeated Collins in the final
A former Grand Slam finalist (at the US Open in 2017), Keys cements, with this title, her great season on earth (semi-final in Madrid, quarter-final in Rome) a few days before the start of Roland-Garros. Even more so with this victory against Collins, also in very good shape in 2024. 69th in the world in January, the American is now in 12th place and should enter the top 10 on Monday, not far from the 7th place that she it had reached its best, in 2022.
After announcing that 2024 would be his last on the circuit, due to pain caused by endometriosis – a chronic inflammatory disease linked to menstrual cycles -, Collins (30 years old) undoubtedly had one of the most beautiful seasons of his career, the final of the Alsatian tournament being his third this season after those won in Miami and Charleston.
