Australian Open: Keys comes through against compatriot Collins to power into last 16
Madison Keys won against Danielle Collins 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday and will play Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 6 seed, in the next round
No 19 seed Madison Keys reached the last 16 of the Australian Open by winning against No 10 seed Danielle Collins 6-4, 6-4 at Melbourne Park.
Keys, ranked No 14, will face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 6 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, Madison Keys beat Ann Li (6-4, 7-5) and edged out Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse (7-6 (1), 2-6, 7-5).
Collins, ranked No 11, defeated Ukrainian qualifier Daria Snigur (7-6 (4), 6-3) and Australian qualifier Destanee Aiava (7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-2) in the previous rounds of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other third-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):
- Elina Svitolina (28) beat Jasmine Paolini (4): 2-6, 6-4, 6-0
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (15): 6-4, 6-2
- Elena Rybakina beat Dayana Yastremska (32): 6-3, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Yulia Putintseva (24): 7-5, 6-1
- Eva Lys (LL) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Emma Raducanu: 6-1, 6-0
- Emma Navarro (8) beat Ons Jabeur: 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Olga Danilovic beat Jessica Pegula (7): 7-6 (3), 6-1
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Leylah Fernandez (30): 6-4, 6-2
- Belinda Bencic beat Naomi Osaka: 7-6 (3) ret.
- Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Magdalena Frech (23): 6-2, 1-6, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (11) beat Marta Kostyuk (17): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Clara Tauson: 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Donna Vekic (18) beat Diana Shnaider (12): 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 7-5
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-1, 6-2