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Monday 8 april 2019

BY GEORGE!

Madison Keys holds the
championship trophy after
defeating Caroline Wozniacki,
from Denmark, to win their fi-
nals match at the Volvo Car
Open tennis tournament in
Charleston, S.C., Sunday, April
7, 2019.
Associated Press
American

Keys

overpowers

Wozniacki

to win Volvo

Car Open

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —
Madison Keys got much
more than she expected
at the Volvo Car Open,
leaving with her first cham-
pionship in two years and
a successful reunion with
coach Juan Todero.
Keys was unsure how she
would handle the season's
first clay-court event —
clay is not among her fa-
vorite surfaces — or if she'd
mesh again with Todero,
who had worked with her
in 2013 and 2014 and was
back in her corner this
week after five years apart.
Any concerns were al-
layed when the 24-year-
old American overpow- Astros walk off to complete
ered the normally steady
Caroline Wozniacki 7-6 (5),
6-3 on Sunday. series sweep vs. A's
“It was a really good first
week,” Keys said with a
smile. “I hope we keep Houston Astros' George Springer reacts after scoring the tying run on Alex Bregman's sacrifice during the eighth inning of the team's
this up.” If they can, who baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Sunday, April 7, 2019, in Houston. Associated Press
knows what Keys might ac- Page 20
complish?
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