Australian Open: Keys edges out Rybakina to make quarter-finals

American Madison Keys, the No 19 seed, reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open by winning against Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 6 seed, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 at Melbourne Park on Monday.

Keys, ranked No 14, will play Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 28 seed, next.

The American beat Ann Li (6-4, 7-5), Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse (7-6 (1), 2-6, 7-5) and No 10 seed Danielle Collins (6-4, 6-4) earlier in the tournament.

In the previous rounds of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season, Rybakina, ranked No 7, defeated Australian wildcard Emerson Jones (6-1, 6-1), American wildcard Iva Jovic (6-0, 6-3) and Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 32 seed (6-3, 6-4).

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other last 16 results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):

• Eva Lys vs. Iga Swiatek
• Emma Navarro vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Elina Svitolina beat Veronika Kudermetova: 6-4, 6-1
• Paula Badosa (11) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-1, 7-6 (2)
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Donna Vekic (18): 7-6, 6-0
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Belinda Bencic: 5-7, 6-2, 6-1
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Mirra Andreeva (14): 6-1, 6-2