By Chris Oddo | @Thefanchild | Wednesday 2 July 2025
Four of the top five seeds failed to reach the third round on the women’s side in Wimbledon, but no.6-Seeded Madison Keys She is sitting nicely and feeling like luck can be on her side in these championships.
Keys, who collapsed almost in her first -round match against Spain’s Russian Elena Gabriela, found a way through that worrying meeting by a determined man, and on Wednesday she jumped Olga Danilovic, Serbia to reach the third round in Wimbledon for the ninth time in her career.
She says viewing the scattered seeds as they have during the first three days of Wimbledon can definitely be of no interest to the best players.
“I think that when you are sitting and watching everyone kind of autumn, it adds a little stress to the situation,” she said. “I was pretty close to my first round, so I feel like I avoided a little bullet.”
Coco gafff of second origin, Jessica Pegula of third origin, Jasmine Paolini of fourth origin, and Zener Qinwen of fifth origin are bent all early, and more can come before the third round begins. After the loss of Paolini to Kamilla Rakhimova on Wednesday, 15 of the 32 seeds of women’s single were already eliminated.
“I really believe the worries are contagious,” Brad Gilbert said, commenting on ESPN. “You can’t help but feel what’s going on.”
Keys believes that fatigue is playing a factor for the best players during this particularly deceptive part of the season that contains two degrees in the five -week space.
“Honestly, I think everyone is just a tired kind, and the season has already passed,” she said. “Hard hard. It’s been six months. I feel like we’ve all played a lot of matches. So no doubt the people ranked above, in theory, have played more matches than others. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It must be at a point of the season where people have diving.”
But Keys, who will face 37-year-old Laura Siegemund in the third round on Friday, is feeling the worst can be behind her.
“I feel like I was going to pass that this was a kind of my personal battle that I had to cross (it was important),” she said. “I feel like once I have been able to do this, even seeing all the results that have happened in the last two days, one type adds a little of my nerves, but I feel like for myself, I feel like I have gone a little.
“So yes, I feel like now I have an opportunity to play some of my best tennis.”
