After the tumult that went with her rushed to a first excellent pummel last in New York a year ago, American Madison Keys has been glad to fly underneath the radar in Melbourne.
That was the situation again on Saturday as the twentieth seed beat 104th-positioned Romanian Ana Bogdan 6-3, 6-4 to advance easily through to the fourth round without dropping a set.
“I am always happy if I’m not the drama, and I feel like the U.S. Open I was the drama every night match that I played,” the 22-year-old, who was beaten at Flushing Meadows by compatriot Sloane Stephens, told reporters.
“It’s a good position for me to be in and I’m enjoying it.”
The stakes will be raised now she has achieved the business end of the competition, with a first-consistently meeting against French eighth seed Caroline Garcia approaching not too far off.
Be that as it may, after three direct wins, Keys is new and receiving the benefits of a choice to end her 2017 battle in September to abstain from irritating a left wrist that required surgery toward the finish of the past season.
“I finished the U.S. Open and I was exhausted,” she said. “As amazing as that run was, the combination of being exhausted from that and having a wrist that still wasn’t 100 percent, I just needed to kind of shut it down, calm down.
“Then I was really excited to start the new season.”
With seeds scattered to the breeze in the main week, 2015 semi-finalist Keys has looked quiet up until this point and once she softened Bogdan up the eighth amusement, she generally looked the feasible victor.
In the wake of softening right on time up the second, she was in all out summon and her lone snapshot of nervousness came when serving for the match at 5-4 as a few blunders presented three breaks focuses.
Keys fought off the risk, however, and finished triumph with a rebuffing forehand that landed ideal on to the pattern following 73 minutes.
Garcia was a standout amongst the most enhanced players on the ladies’ circuit in 2017 and the Frenchwoman recuperated after a mid-coordinate droop to beat Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3 5-7 6-2.
