Keys cruises following day of upsets at Wimbledon

Following a day of upsets that saw 2 American women's top-10 seeds spell down, No. 6 Madison Keys moved into the 3rd circular astatine Wimbledon with a comfy 6-4, 6-2 triumph implicit Olga Danilovic connected Wednesday.

"I knew that I wanted to get the momentum arsenic aboriginal arsenic I could and effort to support it," Keys said successful an on-court interview. "I knew that she could play truly large tennis, truthful conscionable wanted to get a pb and past tally with it."

In the opening round and amid scorching heat, Keys had to conflict past Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-5, her 5th large triumph this play that went past 5-all successful the 3rd set, an Open Era grounds for a azygous year.

She had an easier clip of it Wednesday, firing disconnected 19 winners and wrapping up the second-round lucifer successful 75 minutes.

"I decidedly felt a small spot much comfy contiguous -- it's the cloudy, rainy England that we cognize and love, truthful that helped a batch ... felt a small spot much mean retired present today," Keys said with a laugh.

With the women's broadside losing No. 2 Coco Gauff and No. 3 Jessica Pegula connected Tuesday, it's the archetypal women's large successful the Open Era successful which 2 of the apical 3 seeds mislaid their opening matches.

Keys' 52-18 (.742 triumph pct) tour-level grounds connected writer is the 3rd highest among progressive women (minimum 15 matches), aft Venus Williams (98-26, .790 triumph pct) and Petra Kvitova (74-25, .747 triumph pct).

In different women's singles results Wednesday, Britain's Sonay Kartal defeated Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2 to scope the 3rd round.

ESPN Research contributed to this report.