Madison Keys’ performance at 2025 Cincinnati Open initially looked like she was done. Her fans were also not hoping too much. They were staring at two match points and he was hanging by a thread against a hungry opponent who wasn’t giving an inch. Then something clicked. You could feel the shift in the stadium, that sudden, electric jolt when a champion remembers who she is. One moment she’s scrambling, the next she’s ripping a forehand down the line like she’s playing with house money. A big serve clipped the corner. A gutsy volley. Just like that, she’s swinging free, flipping the script like only Keys can. She clawed back. Of course she did. And when that tiebreaker hit, she wasn’t just surviving, she was in control. Stubborn. Fearless. Totally in her element.

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