Quotes
I finally got to the point where I was proud of myself and proud of my career, with or without winning a Grand Slam,
Everything kind of happens for a reason,
When I woke up, I was watching highlights, saw that Keys won. I go in my phone to text Madison, I accidentally hit the FaceTime button,
he said, imitating the ringing sound I was very confused but felt like it was so random maybe he was going to tell me I won a prize or something,
But now I’m worried that it was 2.15am, she was trying to sleep and did she maybe not get a good night of sleep?”
I have always wanted to win every single tournament I have ever been in a draw of, so I think that is going to continue to be the goal. I think now the sky’s the limit and we just keep working towards the next title.”
Keys, whose power hitting is suited to the grass in Wimbledon, said No-one is going to love me more or less if I don’t win one.”
The No.19 seed spoke openly about her years of struggling with the internal and external pressure of expectation - and how “lots of therapy” had helped her realise There were moments here at the end of the match where she stepped up and dominated, and those are moments that have escaped her in her past life as a tennis player,
said Eurosport pundit Courier I’ve grown up with some other amazing people on this tour,
If she can play consistently like that, I mean, it’s not much you can do,
My first semifinal here feels like it was forever ago. I mean, I honestly felt like I was a different person then. But I think that that kind of happens when so many things have happened throughout the past decade,
I went after it, every single point. And if I missed it and I just didn’t execute, I could live with that. I didn’t want to have any sort of regret that I was passive and I missed. (Then) it could have been something where I thought: ‘I should have done something else,’
Keys said, her hands clasped as she recalled what transpired about two hours earlier I was nervous my entire career. So is Novak (Djokovic). So was Roger (Federer). Everybody has been,
Fratangelo, a former player who looked on with reddened eyes as Keys accepted her trophy, said during the tournament Just being really honest and actually getting help and talking to someone, and not just about tennis but about how I felt about myself,
I didn’t want to be in the same situation where I kind of looked back at it and thought, ‘man, I should have gone for it’,
First of all, Madison, what a tournament. You have been fighting really hard to get this trophy,
My team believed in me every step of the way. So thank you so much,
added Keys, who will now equal her career-high seventh in the world ranking she attained nine years ago I made my very first Grand Slam semifinal here in Melbourne,
said Keys, the runner-up at the U.S. Open in in 2017. I have wanted this for so long,
Keys said in her on-court speech, new to this stage as the fourth-oldest first-time major winner From a pretty young age, I felt like if I never won a Grand Slam, then I wouldn’t have lived up to what people thought I should have been. That was a pretty heavy burden to kind of carry around,
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