Her opponent in that 2015 semifinal was No. “I think I’m a little bit more prepared this time around than I was all those years ago.” “It mostly feels different because I’m seven years older, and it’s not my first semifinal of a Slam,” she said. After dropping out of the top 50 by the end of last season, she is back in the final four in Australia, where she reached her first Grand Slam semifinal in 2015 at age 19. It is Keys’s turn to be the surprise so far in 2022. Outside the top 100 in 2020 in singles, Krejcikova has become a consistent threat in a women’s game filled with upsets and unexpected plot twists: Consider British qualifier Emma Raducanu’s run to the U.S. But she continues her rapid rise nonetheless.
Tuesday’s defeat guaranteed that Krejcikova, a tactically astute Czech player, cannot displace Barty at No. “From there on, I just couldn’t put it together. “Today it was the heat that started to bother me after five games,” she said. Krejcikova said she was not experiencing the same issues on Tuesday. Keys dominated the short exchanges and as an Orlando resident seemed far more at ease in the humidity and heat with the temperature on-court surpassing 90 degrees. Keys hit 11 aces against Krejcikova, one of the world’s premier returners and a doubles champion before she became a singles champion. If it happens to be a winner, then it happens to be a winner.” Really just trying to be a lot more measured and just playing within myself a little bit more, not necessarily trying to hit a winner on that ball, just constantly trying to set the point up to get to the net to try to finish off on even the next ball. “As you said, it’s not something that I used to necessarily do in the past. “I’ve been working on it,” Keys said when asked about her approach. There have been signs of progress in that department this year, as she has hit with more topspin and net clearance, and opted for placing the ball rather than pounding it. Keys has long played a high-risk game and she has, to her detriment under duress, often taken too much chance when in command of a point.
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