Navarro records the match point at Queen’s; Keys, Anisimova Cruise

American women went 3-0 to Andy Murray Arena at the HSBC championships on Wednesday.

A trio of the best players in the United States – Madison Keys, Emma Navarro and Amanda Anisimova – won victories in the central court of the prestigious Queen club, by winning places in the quarter -finals. Here’s how the day went:

Navarro records the correspondence point to overcome Haddad Maia: The seeded n ° 3 Navarro succeeded in a remarkable escape-with the unlikely help of a sick spectator-to defeat Beatriz Haddad Maia 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the second round.

Haddad Maia dominated the procedures from the start, serving strongly and volled with panache, before Navarro began to find its range in the second set. Serving from 5-4, the American saved a match point with a daring pass combination, but in the equality break that followed, Haddad Maia has always taken an advance of 4-2-before the game was interrupted due to medical treatment for the public member.

In recovery, the shape of Haddad Maia has evaporated. Two consecutive double defects and three uns forked errors later, she found herself in a decisive whole. The Brazilian withdrew in the passive game and Navarro has not waste time imposing her own game. Drawing 4-3, Haddad Maia coughs another double expensive fault to lose service, and Navarro succeeded after 2 hours and 47 minutes.

The result was a measure of revenge for the quarter-final of Wimbledon from last year, which had served for the match against Haddad Maia in Strasbourg three weeks ago before falling 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2 in 3 hours and 2 minutes.

“I probably spent the most time in the court with BIA of anyone on tour,” said Navarro in his interview on the ground. “We play all the time, and it always goes three sets and comes back over the course.”

The head to the head of the pair is now at the level of three victories each. Their five previous meetings were on clay.

Anisimova establishes a entirely American quarter -final: Navarro will face his compatriot Anisimova in the quarterfinals on Friday. After the Navarro marathon on Andy Murray Arena, the seeded n ° 8 Anisimova experienced a very different match, rejecting Sonay Kartal Britain 6-1, 6-3 in just 64 minutes.

This second round confrontation was between two players who posted a whole new career ranking on Monday. The world n ° 50 Kartal arrived at the top after beating the player of the top 20 Daria Kasatkina during the opening round of this week.

But the world No. 15 Anisimova was on fire all day, refusing to the British n ° 3 a second consecutive victory of the Top 20. Anisimova never faced Break Point in the first set, where she criticized 13 winners with only four uncompvious mistakes.

Kartal was able to break the second set twice, but the Briton only held twice in the whole match. Anisimova dictated from start to finish, especially on the side of the reverse, where she had 15 winners in total.

Anisimova can enter the quarter -finals with even more confidence – she is 3-0 against Navarro, including a victory in the hometown of Navarro, Charleston this year.

Keys sails through the qualifier: The day on Andy Murray Arena ended with victory 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 against the qualification Anastasia Zakharova. Keys was down an early break at 3-1, but she won 11 of the 13 games following to prevail.

Zakharova, 23, won his first victory in the Top 25 by overthrowing the semi-finalist of Wimbledon, Donna Vekic in the first round. Zakharova should make his first first beginnings after the success of his Queen club.

But today marked the very first Zakharova meeting against a top 10 player, and she saw her race end. Once the reigning Australian champion, Keys, put his teeth in the match, the American was on the cruise control.

“It’s always a little difficult to play someone for the first time, especially on the grass when they had matches,” Keys said in court after his victory. “The first two games, I just felt like I was trying to find my foot, then once I did it, I played very well.”

Keys won three grass land titles during his career (Eastbourne 2014, 2016 Brimingham and 2023 Eastbourne). Among the active players, only Petra Kvitova (6) won more WTA Grass-Court titles than Keys.